Mindy Simon

PhD Student
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

Contact Information:

Education:

• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis 2009
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2007

Peer Reviewed Publications:

• Lin, R., Fisher, J., Simon, M.G., and Lee, A.P. (2012) Novel On-Demand Droplet Generation for Selective Fluid Sample Extraction. Biomicrofluidics, 6 (2) 024103. doi: 10.1063/1.3699972 (Selected for 15 April 2012 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)
• Simon, M.G.*, Lin, R*, Fisher, J.F. and Lee, A.P. (2012) A Laplace pressure based microfluidic trap for passive droplet trapping and controlled release. Biomicrofluidics, 6 (1) 014110. doi: 10.1063/1.3687400 (Top 10 Most Downloaded Article from Biomicrofluidics website, March 2012)

Conference Publications:

• Lee, A. P., Hatch A.C., Prieto J.L., Wang L., Simon, M., Patel M., Doria A. Becoming better Microfluidic Fishermen: Sorting biological and artificial cells in small fluid samples. IEEE-EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine, Ka’anapali, Hawaii, December 2012.
• Simon, M.G., Lin, R., Prieto, J.L., Dell, S., and Lee, A.P. Apples to Apples: Normalizing Droplet Microfluidic Measurements by Size and Velocity. IEEE-EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine, Ka’anapali, Hawaii, December 2012.
• Winkler, M., Vu, T., Simon, M., Lee, A.P., Brown, D.J., and J.V. Jester. A Microfluidics-Based Approach to Exploring the Mechanome of Corneal Keratocytes, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Eye Research, Berlin, Germany, July 2012.
• Simon, M.G.*, Lin, R.*, Prieto, J.L., and Lee, A.P. Label-Free Detection of DNA Amplification in Droplets Using Electrical Impedance, The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (uTAS 2011) Seattle, Washington, October 2-5, 2011.
• Simon, M.G.*, Lin, R.*, Fisher, J.S., and Lee, A.P. Laplace droplet trap for passive fusion of droplets from asynchronous generation sources, The 14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (uTAS 2010) Groningen, Netherlands, October 3-7, 2010.

Book Chapters:

• Simon, MG and Lee, AP. “Microfluidic Droplet Manipulations and their Applications”. Microdroplet Technology: Principles and Emerging Applications in Biology and Chemistry. (eds. Phillip Day, Andreas Manz, Yonghao Zhang) Springer Science + Business Media. ISBN: 978-1-4614-3264-7
• Simon, MG and Davis CE. “Instrumentation and Sensors for Human Breath Analysis.” Advances in Biomedical Sensing, Measurements, Instrumentation and Systems pp. 144-165. (eds. S.C. Mukhopadhyay and A. Lay-Ekuakille) Springer-Verlag Publishers. ISBN: 978-3-642-05166-1