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Sabbatical in Costa Rica
Thanks to a Fulbright award, Dr. Ontiveros will spend 4.5 months working as a visiting researcher at the National Center for Advanced Technology (CENAT) in San José, Costa Rica. Working in collaboration with Dr. Yendry Corrales at the Nanotechnology Lab, he will costumize PETL microfludic devices to address proyects involving bacteria and nanoparticles. CENAT is a top research institute in Costa Rica, featuring some of the best researchers in the country and an impressive arr
Jan 14


Sidney presents at SUNY Geneseo
Sidney China presented her work at the Rochester Academy of Sciences annual conference, which took place at SUNY Geneseo on November 1st. She had a chance to speak about the 3 different projects (microfluidics for blood typing, microfluidics for bacterial bioreactors and freshwater bacteria isolation), she worked on as a Summer Scholar in the lab. She did an excellent job and was congratulated by some in the audience. Keep up the good work Sidhey!
Nov 24, 2025


Fulbright Award
Thanks to a grant from the Fulbright US Scholar program our lab will be working in collaboration with the National Laboratory for...
Jul 18, 2025


Dom is in the (Fisher) News
Recently graduated Dom is featured this week in the Fisher website. Dom spent a year and half in the lab, working on our NSF-funded...
Feb 24, 2025


Our new manuscript on the application of PETL microfluidics to mechanobiology is out!!
It took a while, but it is finally here. Here is another collaborative project with the Zartman Lab in the College of Engineering at...
Jul 27, 2024


Reporting Results at STRATUS
Ten years later, 1,200 bacterial isolates and over 150 species later, our group is nearing completion of a freshwater bacterial flora...
Jun 7, 2024


NSF Award will fund a "Partnership for Innovation" Project
It only took 14 months since submission, but we have finally received the Notice of Award for a collaborative project between the...
Sep 15, 2023


Raunak receives Biology Award
After 3 years in the lab Raunak graduated with honors and a departmental award. Congratulations to her for all her hard work! In the...
Jun 23, 2023


Lab alumnus is featured in the RNA Society website
After graduating from Fisher, Bob Battaglia took a cross country trip to San Francisco before starting graduate school at Cornell. One...
Feb 5, 2022


Student awarded a grant by the Rochester Academy of Sciences
Raunak Al-Rubayie started working almost 2 years ago in the lab building a beautiful data base and smart map (ArcGIS) of all the hundreds...
Jan 26, 2022
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