RESEARCH
Research at Brown University
First year student in the Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. program at Brown University, conducting microfluidics research in the Tripathi Biomedical Engineering Group.
Journal Articles
- Antunez-Vela, S.; Perez-Gonzalez, V.H.; Coll De Peña, A.; Lentz, C.J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H. Simultaneous Determination of Linear and Nonlinear Electrophoretic Mobilities of Cells and Microparticles. Analytical Chemistry 2020.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H. Determination of the Empirical Electrokinetic Equilibrium Condition of Microorganisms in Microfluidic Devices. Biosensors 2020, 10, 148.
- Quevedo, D. F.; Lentz, C. J.; Coll de Peña, A.; Hernandez, Y.; Habibi, N.; Miki, R.; Lahann, J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B. H. Electrokinetic characterization of synthetic protein nanoparticles. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1556–1567.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.; Lentz, C.J.; Hill, N.; Parthasarathy, A.; Hudson, A.O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H. Creation of an electrokinetic characterization library for the detection and identification of biological cells. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2020, 412, 3935–3945.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Mohd Redzuan, N.H.; Abajorga, M.K; Hill, N.; Thomas, J.A.;* Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Analysis of Bacteriophages with Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis, Micromachines, 10(7) 450, 2019.
- Thomas, J.A.; Benítez Quintana, A.D.; Bosch, M.A.; Coll De Peña, A.; Aguilera, E.; Coulibaly, A.; Wu, W.; Osier, M.V.; Hudson, A.O.; Weintraub, S.T.; et al. Identification of essential genes in the Salmonella phage SPN3US reveals novel insights into giant phage head structure and assembly. J. Virol. 2016, 90, 10284–10298.
Conference Presentations
- Coll De Peña, A.; Mohd Redzuan, N.H.; Abajorga, M.K; Hill, N.; Thomas, J.A.;* Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Electrokinetic assessment of bacteriophage virus. 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Parthasarathy, A.; Hudson, A.O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Insulator-based dielectrophoresis to characterize the electrokinetic behavior of bacterial and yeast cells and create a library, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Hill, N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Multi-stage electrokinetic microsystem for the purification and assessment of microbes, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
- Hill, N.; Coll De Peña, A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Multi-stage electrokinetic microsystem for the purification and assessment of microbes, 2019 AES Annual meeting at Scix, Palm Springs CA, 10/2019.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Mohd Redzuan, N.H.; Thomas, J.A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Insulator-based dielectrophoresis to purify and enrich bacteriophages, Annual AES Meeting @ Scix, Atlanta GA, 10/2018.
- Coll De Peña, A.; Parthasarathy, A.; Hudson, A.O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Insulator-based dielectrophoresis to characterize the electrokinetic behavior of bacterial cells and create a library, Annual AES Meeting @ Scix, Atlanta GA, 10/2018.
- Weintraub, S.T., Coll, A., Bosch, M., Hajala, K., Pardo, S., Molleur, D., Hardies, S. C., Black, L. W. and Thomas, J.A. ‘Novel Genetic Determinants for Complex Head Composition in a Giant Salmonella Phage’; American Society for Mass Spectrometry Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA; 06/2016.
- Thomas, J.A., Coll, A., Bosch, M., Adams, L., Benitez, D., Aguilera, E., Coulibaly, A., Cheng, N., Wu, W., Steven, A.C.,Weintraub,S.T., Hardies, S.C. and Black, L.W. ‘Exploiting Mutational Surrogacy to Study Head Morphogenesis of Giant PhiKZ-related Phages’; Evergreen International Phage Meeting, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA; 10/2015
Previous Research Laboratories
Lapizco Laboratory (Microscale Bioseparation Research) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 08/2017-05/2020
Hudson Laboratory (Plant Biotechnology Reseach) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 08/2016-08/2017
Thomas Laboratory (Bacteriophage Research) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, 08/2014-05/2016
Penninger Laboratory (Cancer Research) at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of Austria, Summers 2014 and 2015