Maria F. Romero-Creel
NEWS: August 2017- Maria just published her fifth peer-reviewed journal article!
Maria Romero-Creel graduates with her BS in Biomedical Engineering in May 2017 and in August 2017 Maria published her fifth peer-reviewed journal article. This is a great research achievement, to graduate with a BS and five juornal publications!Congratulations Maria! This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award CBET-1336160). The article is published here
NEWS: September 2016 - Maria Romero-Creel received a research award at SCIX conference
Maria Romero-Creel (5th year BME student) was was awarded first place at the FACCs student poster competition at the 2016 SCIX Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 9/2016.Congratulations Maria! This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award CBET-1336160).
NEWS: November 2015 - Maria Romero-Creel received a research award at AIChE conference
Maria Romero-Creel (4th year BME student) was was awarded second place at the AIChE undergraduate separations poster competition at the 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 11/2015.Congratulations Maria! This work was funded by the National Science Foundation (Award CBET-1336160).
Research at Rochester Institute of Technology
Maria is a fifth year Biomedical Engineering student at RIT. She is currently conducting a research project in microfluidics which focuses specifically on the separation, isolation, and enrichment of complex mixtures using insulator-based dielectrophoresis.Academic Background
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Expected 05/2017).
Projects
- Effect of the geometry of insulating structures on insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP).
- Effect of dielectrophoresis on the viability of cells.
- Dielectrophoretic manipulation of particle mixtures employing asymmetric insulating posts
- Isolation and enrichment of low abundant particles with insulator-based dielectrophoresis
- Inverted Elution of large particles using insulator based DEP
- Separation, isolation and enrichment of complex mixtures using iDEP
- The effect of Joule heating on iDEP devices
Journal articles
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PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS
- Romero-Creel, M.F. ; Goodrich E.; Polniak D.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Assessment of sub-micron particles by exploiting charge differences with dielectrophoresis, Micromachines, 8(8):239-253, 2017. I.F. 1.833.
- Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.;
Romero-Creel, M.F.; Dolas, J.R.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Dielectrophoretic manipulation of particle mixtures employing asymmetric insulating posts, Electrophoresis, 37(2):282-290, 2016. I.F. 3.028. Article awarded with the journal cover. - Lalonde, A.; Romero-Creel, M.F. ; Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Isolation and enrichment of low abundant particles with insulator-based dielectrophoresis, Biomicrofluidics, 9(6):064113, 2015. I.F. 3.357
- LaLonde A.; Romero-Creel, M.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Assessment of cell viability after manipulation with insulator-based dielectrophoresis, Electrophoresis, 36(13):1479-84, 2015. I.F. 3.028
- LaLonde A.; Gencoglu, A.; Romero-Creel, M.; Koppula, K.S.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Effect of insulating posts geometry on particle manipulation in insulator based dielectrophoretic devices, Journal of Chromatography A, 1344:99-108, 2014, I.F. 4.612.
Conference Proceedings and Technical Articles
- Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.; LaLonde, A.; Gencoglu, A.; Romero-Creel, M.F. ; Dolas, J.R. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Reversing elution order in insulator based dielectrophoretic separations with asymmetric insulating posts; AIChE Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings online, New York, NY, AIChE, 2015. ISBN: pending
- LaLonde, A.; Romero-Creel, M.F.; Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Dielectrophoretic isolation and enrichment of low abundant particles; AIChE Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings online, New York, NY, AIChE, 2015. ISBN: pending.
- LaLonde, A.; Romero-Creel, M.F. ; Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.;Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Dielectrophoretic isolation and enrichment of low abundant particles; AICHE Annual Meeting 2015, Salt Lake City GA, USA; 11/2015.
- Gencoglu, A.; LaLonde, A.; Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.; Romero-Creel, M.F. ; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Reversing elution order in insulator based dielectrophoretic separations with asymmetric insulating posts; AICHE Annual Meeting 2015, Salt Lake City GA, USA; 11/2015.
Conference Presentations
- Romero-Creel, M.F. ; LaLonde, A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Assessment of Complex Biological Samples with Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis; SCIX Annual Meething, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 9/2016.
- Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.; LaLonde, A.; Gencoglu, A.; Romero-Creel, M.F.; Dolas, J.R. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Insulator-based dielectrophoresis: Reversing elution order in Microscale Bioseparations; First International Forum of Mexican Talent; Guadalajara JC, Mexico; 04/2016.Poster number IMMX-RN-BT-0019
- Romero-Creel, M.; LaLonde, A.; Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Selective trapping and enrichment of particles employing inverted elution iDEP; AICHE Annual Meeting 2015, Salt Lake City UT, USA; 11/2015.
- Romero-Creel, M.; Dolas, J.R. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.; Isolation and enrichment of cell from a complex sample using insulator-based dielectrophoresis; AICHE Annual Meeting 2015, Salt Lake City UT, USA; 11/2015.
- Saucedo-Espinosa, M.A.; LaLonde, A.; Gencoglu, A.; Romero-Creel, M.; Dolas, J.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.>;* Reversing elution order in insulator based dielectrophoretic separations with asymmetric insulating posts; AICHE Annual Meeting 2015, Salt Lake City UT, USA; 11/2015.
- LaLonde, A.;Romero-Creel, M.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H; Assessment of cell viability after manipulation with insulator-based dielectrophoresis, AICHE Annual Meeting 2014, Atlanta GA, USA, (11/2014).
- LaLonde, A.;Romero-Creel, M.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.; Assessment of cell viability after manipulation with insulator-based dielectrophoresis, Rochester Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Symposium, (08/2013).
- Gencoglu, A.; LaLonde, A.; Romero-Creel, M.; Koppula K. S. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H; Effect of Insulating Post Shape On Particle Trapping With Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis, AICHE Annual Meeting 2013, San Fransisco CA, USA, (11/2013).
- LaLonde A.; Romero-Creel, M.; Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Assessment of cell viability after manipulation with insulator-based dielectrophoresis, Biotechnology Symposium: Opening the Biotechnology Toolbox, May 15-16, 2014, SUNY-ESF Gateway Center, Syracuse.