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

Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A.; Lentz, C.J.; Hill, N.; Hudson, A.O.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Creation of an electrokinetic characterization library for the detection and identification of biological cells, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, in press, DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-02621-9, 2020. I.F. 3.286
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. I.F. 2.426
Thomas, Julie A., Andrea Denisse Benítez Quintana, Martine A. Bosch, Adriana Coll De Peña, Elizabeth Aguilera, Assitan Coulibaly, Weimin Wu, Michael V. Osier, André O. Hudson, Susan T. Weintraub, and Lindsay W. Black. "Identification of Essential Genes in the Salmonella Phage SPN3US Reveals Novel Insights into Giant Phage Head Structure and Assembly." Journal of Virology 90.22 (2016): 10284-0298.

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