Gabriela Martinez

Research at Rochester Institute of Technology

Gabriela is a second year Biomedical Engineering student at RIT. Gabriela joined the MSB lab on January, 2023. She is currently working on a project to develop a new method to purify bacteriophages.

Academic Background

• B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Expected 05/2026).

Projects

• Characterization and Separation of Bacteriophages
• Live and Dead Cell Separation
• DNA Origami & Molecular Tagging for Programmable Binding

Journal articles

Kasarabada, V., Nasir Ahamed, N.N., Vaghef-Koodehi, A., Martinez-Martinez, G., and B. H. Lapizco-Encinas;* Separating the living from the dead: an electrophoretic approach, Analytical Chemistry, 96(39): 15711-15719, 2024, I.F. 6.7. link

Conference Presentations

1. Kasarabada, V., Nasir Ahamed, N.N., Vaghef-Koodehi, A., Martinez-Martinez, G., and B. H. Lapizco-Encinas;* Separating the living from the dead: an electrophoretic approach, AES Annual meeting at Scix 2024, Raleigh NC, USA

Hobbies

Playing guitar, reading, sewing and playing basketball.

Gabriela Martinez
Biomedical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: gm2530@rit.edu

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