Rowena Mittal, MS, PhD

Contact: rowena
[at] alum.mit.edu


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  areas of expertise
quantum dot cell labeling and tracking, flow cytometry, micro contact printing, microfluidic/microchip design and fabrication, micro bioreactor cell culture, polymer hydrogels, DNA aptamer synthesis, ink-jet hydrogel arrays, bioprocess engineering, stem and mammalian cell culture

interpersonal and technical communication, project/people management, team work, leadership, entrepreneurism, lab startup and management
  skills
Analytical: FFlow cytometry (FACS) sorting and analysis, non-invasive fluorescence in vivo imaging, micro computed tomography (uCT), time-lapse confocal microscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS), fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), chromatography (column, affinity, ion-exchange, size-exclusion)

Chemical & Materials Engineering: robotic ink jet microarrays, microfluidic device design, fabrication and prototype testing; micro-bioreactors, micro-contact printing, photo lithography, glass surface modification, silane chemistry, quantum dot synthesis, nanoparticle bioconjugation, polymer and hydrogel chemistry, photopolymerization, nanoparticle and microbead binding capacity assays, nanoparticle cell labeling and tracking, fluid dynamics, microfluidics, complex fluids

Biological & Bioprocess Engineering: Recombinant DNA methods, protein production, purification, and recovery; TOPO cloning, BSA/BCA assay, gel electrophoresis (agarose, polyacrylamide (PAGE), SDS-PAGE, 2D, reducing and non-reducing, low-melt), cycle sequencing, DNA aptamer synthesis, proteomic methods, DNA sequencing, PCR, self-self hybridization for cDNA microarray, ELISA assay, microbial genetics, bacterial cell culture and transformation, western blot, northern blot, dot blot, scale-up of bacterial cell culture in stirred tank bioreactor, batch and fed-batch phase fermentation

Cell culture: Stem cell differentiation assays, cytotoxicity assays, cell motility assays, immunostaining, mammalian and stem cell culture and transfection, microfluidic device and micro bioreactor cell culture

Computer: FlowJo, BD FACSDiva, ImageJ, Adobe PhotoShop, GraphPad PRISM, Matlab, ABACUSSII (modeling & simulations), MS Office, HTML/CSS/web design, EndNote, Mac OS, Windows, Linux

  languages

Conversant in French and Spanish


  relevant coursework
Carnegie Mellon University
Microfluidics (24-500/42-507/06-500)
Structure & Rheology of Complex Fluids (06-610/09-545)
Advanced Polymeric Biomaterials (42-711/27-711)
Advanced Physiology (42-702)
Cellular Biomechanics (42-645/24-655)
Pharmacy & Biotechnology for Engineers (UPITT, 2700)
Engineering Statistics & Quality Control (36-220)
Biological Imaging & Fluorescence Spectroscopy (03-534)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Open Courseware website)
Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Algorithms and Computer Methods (10.10)
Biological Engineering Laboratory (10.28)
Separation Processes (10.32)
Chemical & Biological Reaction Engineering (10.37)
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (10.40)
Chemical and Biological Engineering Thermodynamics (10.213)
Fluid Mechanics (10.301)
Transport Processes (10.302)
ICE Senior Design Course: Batch Process Development (10.490)
ICE Senior Design Course: CO2 Capture Systems (10.491)
ICE Senior Design Course: Biocatalysis (10.492)
ICE Senior Design Course: Biomaterials & Drug Delivery (10.494)
Molecular and Engineering Aspects of Biotechnology (10.441/7.37)
Structural Basis of Genetic Material: Nucleic Acids (7.A12)
Experimental Biology and Communication (7.02)
Biochemistry (7.05)
Laboratory Chemistry (5.310)
Principles of Chemical Science (5.112)
Organic Chemistry I (5.12)
Thermodynamics and Kinetics (5.60)
Quantitative Physiology: Cells and Tissues (6.021)
Differential Equations (18.03)
Calculus I & II (18.01A/18.02A)
Physics I (8.01) & II (8.02)
Macroeconomics (14.02)

 


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