@article{saberi-bosari_omary_lavoie_prodromou_day_menegatti_san-miguel_2019, title={Affordable Microfluidic Bead-Sorting Platform for Automated Selection of Porous Particles Functionalized with Bioactive Compounds}, volume={9}, ISSN={["2045-2322"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42869-5}, DOI={10.1038/s41598-019-42869-5}, abstractNote={AbstractThe ability to rapidly and accurately evaluate bioactive compounds immobilized on porous particles is crucial in the discovery of drugs, diagnostic reagents, ligands, and catalysts. Existing options for solid phase screening of bioactive compounds, while highly effective and well established, can be cost-prohibitive for proof-of-concept and early stage work, limiting its applicability and flexibility in new research areas. Here, we present a low-cost microfluidics-based platform enabling automated screening of small porous beads from solid-phase peptide libraries with high sensitivity and specificity, to identify leads with high binding affinity for a biological target. The integration of unbiased computer assisted image processing and analysis tools, provided the platform with the flexibility of sorting through beads with distinct fluorescence patterns. The customized design of the microfluidic device helped with handling beads with different diameters (~100–300 µm). As a microfluidic device, this portable novel platform can be integrated with a variety of analytical instruments to perform screening. In this study, the system utilizes fluorescence microscopy and unsupervised image analysis, and can operate at a sorting speed of up to 125 beads/hr (~3.5 times faster than a trained operator) providing >90% yield and >90% bead sorting accuracy. Notably, the device has proven successful in screening a model solid-phase peptide library by showing the ability to select beads carrying peptides binding a target protein (human IgG).}, number={1}, journal={SCIENTIFIC REPORTS}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Saberi-Bosari, Sahand and Omary, Mohammad and Lavoie, Ashton and Prodromou, Raphael and Day, Kevin and Menegatti, Stefano and San-Miguel, Adriana}, year={2019}, month={May} }
 @article{saberi-bosari_huayta_san-miguel_2018, title={A microfluidic platform for lifelong high-resolution and high throughput imaging of subtle aging phenotypes in C-elegans}, volume={18}, ISSN={["1473-0189"]}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8lc00655e}, DOI={10.1039/c8lc00655e}, abstractNote={Aging produces a number of changes in the neuronal structure and function throughout a variety of organisms.}, number={20}, journal={LAB ON A CHIP}, publisher={Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)}, author={Saberi-Bosari, Sahand and Huayta, Javier and San-Miguel, Adriana}, year={2018}, month={Oct} }