Rowena Mittal, MS, PhD

Contact: rowena
[at] alum.mit.edu


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  publications
Mittal R, Bruchez MP. A biotin-4-fluorescein based fluorescence quenching assay for determination of biotin binding capacity of streptavidin conjugated quantum dots. Bioconjugate Chemistry. February 2011

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Calibration of flow cytometry for quantitative quantum dot measurements. Current Protocols in Cytometry. July 2009

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Quantification of single-cell uptake of polyarginine conjugated quantum dots (QDs) by flow cytometry. Nanoletters. Submitted, in revision

Sarbu T, Fitzpatrick JAJ, Mittal R, Andreko SK, Ballou B, Bruchez MP. Near-Infrared Emitting, X-ray Opaque Bi2S3 Nanocrystals for in vivo Imaging. In preparation

  presentations
Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Quantitative Quantum Dot (QD) Methods for Tracking Stem Cells Noninvasively in vivo. Materials Research Society (MRS) 2009 Fall Meeting, Boston, MA. November 30, 2009 (oral presentation)

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Quantitative Methods to Track Stem Cells in Vivo Using Quantum Dots (QDs). Biomedical Engineering Society 2009 Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. October 8, 2009 (poster)

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Quantitative Cellular Uptake of Quantum Dots (QDs) for in vivo Cell Tracking. The Dowd Seminar, College of Engineering and ICES, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. October 16, 2008 (oral presentation)

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Use of Quantum Dots for Quantitative Tracking of Stem Cells and Cell Fate in vivo. 3rd Annual Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Research Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. April 25, 2008 (oral presentation)

Mittal R, Bruchez MP. Novel multimodal nanoparticles for quantitative tracking of stem cell location and fate in vivo. The Dowd Seminar, College of Engineering and ICES, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. September 28, 2007 (oral presentation)

Mittal R, Washburn NR. DNA Ligands for Integrating Biointeractive Materials. Society for Biomaterials 2006 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. April 26 – 29, 2006 (poster)

  teaching
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Supervisor
2009-2010 Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Program
Advised undergraduate on research project in multivalent QD synthesis and characterization

Teaching Assistant
Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
Instructed 10-20 students, graded homework and exams (50-100 students) for 3 semesters

Course Module Author
Fall 2006-present Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
Designed and authored new course module titled, "Hydrogel Synthesis and Cell Behavior Study."
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