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

Projects

Journal articles

    PUBLISHED OR IN PRESS
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. 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).
  8. 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).
  9. 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.

Maria F. Romero-Creel
Biomedical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: mfr2129@rit.edu