Vish Kasarabada

PhD Candidate at Rochester Institute of Technology

Vish joined MSB lab in Fall 2023 to pursue his doctoral education in biomedical engineering. He is currently working on a multi-disciplinary project which would create microfluidic technology to purify Bacteriophages.

Academic Background

• B.E. in Chemical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Goa, India.

• M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland,Ohio.

Projects

• Electrokinetic separation of cells and bacteriophages

Journal articles

1. Kasarabada, V.; Azad, Z.; Thomas, J.A.*.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Electrokinetic separation of bacteriophage ϕKZ from bacterial cells, 2026, link
2. Kasarabada, V.; Nasir Ahamed, N.N.; Vaghef-Koodehi, A.; Martinez-Martinez, G.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Separating the living from the dead: an electrophoretic approach, Analytical Chemistry, 96(39): 15711-15719, 2024, link
3. Kasarabada, V.; Ernst, O.D.; Vaghef-Koodehi, A.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Effect of cell shape on nonlinear electrophoresis migration, Journal of Chromatography A, 1717:464585, 2024. link

Conference Presentations

1. Kasarabada, V., Azad, Z., Thomas, J.A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Electrokinetic Separation of Phage ΦPA3, 2025 AES Annual meeting at SciX 10/2025, Covington, KY, USA
2. Kasarabada, V., Thomas, J.A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Continuous and Cascade Electrokinetic Separations of Nano and Microparticles, 2025 AES Annual meeting at SciX 10/2025, Covington, KY, USA
3. Kasarabada, V., Ernst. O.D, Vaghef-Koodehi, A. and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H..;* Assessment of the effect of cell shape on their nonlinear electrophoretic mobility, AES Annual meeting at Scix 2024, Raleigh NC, USA
4. Kasarabada, V., Nasir Ahamed, N.N., Vaghef-Koodehi, A., Martinez-Martinez, G., and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Continuous separation of live and dead cells with nonlinear electrophoresis, AES Annual meeting at Scix 2024, Raleigh NC, USA

Hobbies

Learning new languages, Reading Fiction & Gaming

Vish Kasarabada
Biomedical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: vk9338@rit.edu

Particle trapping
(Figure 2 from Isolation and enrichment of low abundant particles with insulator-based dielectrophoresis).

Dielectropherograms of 1μm and 2μm particles.
(Figure 6 from Effect of insulating posts geometry on particle manipulation in insulator based dielectrophoretic devices, 2014)