Viswateja Kasarabada

PhD Candidate at Rochester Institute of Technology

Viswateja (Vish) joined the microbioseparations 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 bacteriophage preparations using elecrokinetics.

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

Publications

1. Kasarabada, V.; Azad, Z.; Thomas, J.A.*.; and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.;* Electrokinetic separation of bacteriophage phiKZ (φKZ) from bacterial cells, Analyst, 2026, 51(9): 2682–2693, 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, 2024, 96(39): 15711-15719, 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, 2024, 1717:464585, link

Conference Presentations

1. Kasarabada, V., Azad, Z., Thomas, J.A. * and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* High-Resolution Electrophoretic Separation of Bacteriophage φKZ from Bacterial Cells Using Insulator-Based Microfluidics, 2026 AES Annual meeting at SciX 10/2026, Reno, NV, USA
2. Kasarabada, V., Austin, F., Taylor, C., Ya, O., Thomas, J.A. * and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Cascade Insulator-Based Electrokinetic Systems for Tertiary Bacteriophage Isolation, 2026 AES Annual meeting at SciX 10/2026, Reno, NV, USA
3. Kasarabada, V., Taylor, C., Thomas, J.A. * and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* From Morphology to Mobility: A Predictive Framework for Nonlinear Electrophoresis of Biological Particles, 2026 AES Annual meeting at SciX 10/2026, Reno, NV, USA
4. Kasarabada, V., Azad, Z., Thomas, J.A. * and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Electrokinetic Characterization and Separation of Bacteriophage φKZ from Escherichia coli, 2026 DEP conference, Louisville, KY, USA
5. Kasarabada, V., Ya, O., Thomas, J.A. * and Lapizco-Encinas, B.H.* Multistage Electrokinetic Purification of Bacteriophages from Proxies, 2026 DEP conference, Louisville, KY, USA
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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

Viswateja 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)