Group members
Sagnik Basuray
PI
Sagnik Basuray, Ph.D., completed his doctoral studies from the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Chemical and Bio-Molecular Engineering in 2011, where he won the best thesis award. Since 2012, he was working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri, at the Center for Micro/Nano Systems and Nanotechnology, in the area of materials science, nanotechnology and optics. Prior to his stint at Missouri, he was working as a Research Scientist at 454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company, building the next generation semiconductor-based sequencing platform.
At Notre Dame, he worked extensively in nanofluidics, microfluidics with core competency in biomedical diagnostics to research interfacial electro-kinetic properties like dielectrophoresis. He designed robust, cost-effective Point-of-Care devices with electrochemical sensors as an alternative to real-time PCR and DNA sensing. The sensor work has been licensed and developed by F Cubed LLC. and is now in clinical trials. His research was highlighted during the 2010 Michigan-Notre Dame football game at halftime as an ad to showcase the research activities at the University of Notre Dame. During his postdoctoral stint, he has developed top-down fabrication protocols (soft lithography) to fabricate hierarchical nano-ordered plasmonic/photonic structures which show extra-ordinary electro-magnetic field enhancement. These were used to investigate single biological molecules like DNA, RNA, FRET pairs and to develop multi spatial/temporal techniques (Raman, Fluorescence) from a single platform. Sagnik has always worked closely with groups in biochemistry, biology, biological engineering across many collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects.
Roli Kargupta
Visiting Scientist
Roli Kargupta is a visiting scientist. She joined the lab in August 2017 after finished her doctoral studies in Bioengineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her expertise is in bacterial thin films, bacterial culture, and growth, electrochemical spectroscopy to study bacteria in solution. She is currently involved in the blood-brain barrier project and the living wall project.
Undergraduate Students (Current)
John Federick
John Federick
Medical Lab. Sc., Rutgers, 2018
John Federick
Bhuvana Mohanlal
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Researcher's
Bhuvana Mohanlal did her Postdoc research in the Basuray lab from June 2016 to October 2017. She completed her PhD in Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu, India. She worked on developing Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) on chip and working with different sensor projects. Her interests in research are developing sensors for DNA detection and other biomolecules
Undergraduate Students
Victoria Harbour
Chemical Engineering, NJIT, 2018
Victoria Harbour
Tulika Das
Applied Elec,, HIT, 2018
Tulika Das
Monica Torallba
Chemical Engineering, NJIT, 2019
Monica Torallba
Nabih Armout
Biomedical Engineering, NJIT, 2019
Nabih Armout
Master's
Nida Riaz
Master's 2016
Nida is currently a Technical Sales Representative at United Mineral & Chemical's Metals Division where she is responsible for providing high purity metals for semiconductor fabrication and molecular beam epitaxy to university research, government research and commercial applications.
Siril Arocklam
Master's 2018
Siril did his Masters by thesis in scaling down of commercial Pharmaceutical production reactors into Microfluidics environment using COMSOL Multiphysics tool as a simulation platform. He is currently working as a researcher in the Basuray Lab on the Blood-Brain barrier project
Mehnaz Mursalat
Master's 2017
Mehnaz finished her master's project on developing CNT based sensors for antibody detection in blood