Abbi Miller

Research at Rochester Institute of Technology

Abbi is a 4th year Biomedical Engineering student at RIT. Abbi joined the MSB lab in June 2019 and is currently working on a project to achieve particle separation by shape and size using dielectrophoresis chromatography techniques in microfluidic devices.

NEWS! January 2020 - Abbi Miller received the 2019-2020 Outsdanding Undergraduate Scholar (OUS) Award

As a 2019-2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar, Abbi will be honored at a reception, award ceremony and dinner that will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Gordon Field House and Activities Center on Thursday, March 19, 2020.

Academic Background

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Expected 05/2021).

Projects

Low-voltage insulator-based electrokinetic collaboration with the Interface Science Research Group at the Tecnológico de Monterrey
Improving method for electrokinetic injections of microparticles considering nonlinear electrokinetic effects in insulator-based devices
Separation of cells and polystyrene particles employing insulator-based dielectrophoresis chromatography

Journal articles

Miller, A. Hill, N., Hakim, K.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Finetuning Electrokinetic Injections Considering Nonlinear Electrokinetic Effects in Insulator-based Devices, Micromachines, 12(6):628, 2021. I.F. 2.523 , 2021. I.F. 2.523 link
Hill, N. Coll De Peña, A.; Miller, A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* On the potential of microscale electrokinetic cascade devices, Electrophoresis, in press, 2021. I.F. 3.081 link
Korensky, G.; Chen, X.; Bao, M.; Miller, A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Park, M.; Du, K.* Single Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cell separation from bacterial cells and auto-fluorescence tracking with a nanosieve device, Electrophoresis, in press, 2020. I.F. 3.081.
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
Chen, X.; Miller, A.; Cao, S.; Gan, Y.; Zhang, J.; He, Q.; Wang, Ruo-Qian; Yong, X. Qin, P.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Du, K.* Efficient Escherichia coli (E. coli) Trapping and Retrieval from Bodily Fluids via a Three-Dimensional (3D) Microbeads Stacked Nano-Device, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2020. I.F. 8.456

Conference Presentations

Miller A.; Hill N.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Separation of cells and particles employing insulator-based dielectrophoresis chromatography, 2019 RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium, Rochester NY, 08/2019.
Miller A.; Hill N.; Coll De Peña, A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H. Electrokinetic separation of cells and polystyrene particles in an insulator-based device, Annual AES Meeting at SciX 2020 Virtual Meeting, 10/2020.

Hobbies

Traveling, Pep Band (saxophone), hiking, reading