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Erickson Lab@Cornell University

Global and Mobile Health, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Nutrition, Microfluidics and Photonics

Conference 2010-Present

* Invited lectures not shown, for a complete listing please see on-line C.V.

  1. Hussain, I., Boza, J., Semeere, A., Cesarman, E., Martin, J., Erickson, D., “A weakly-supervised deep learning framework for detection of Kaposi-sarcoma infection in immunohistochemistry-stained digital whole slide images”, Bioengineering for Global Health, Nashville, TN., November 2023.
  2. McCloskey, D., Boza, J., Semeere, A., Mauer, T., Gardner, A., Martin, J., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D., “Rapid skin biopsy processing for downstream KSHV quantification” KSHV 2022, Denver Colorado, August 2022
  3. McCloskey, D., Genovese, C., Semeere, A., Martin, J., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D., “Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS), Palm Springs, CA., October 2021
  4. Boza, J.M., McCloskey, D., Butler, D., Mozsary, C., Mason, C., Erickson, D., “MINI: An Energy Flexible Point-of-Care Device for High-Throughput Screening”, Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS), Palm Springs, CA., October 2021
  5. Oeschger, T.M., Erickson, D., “Self-Contained Paper Microfluidics for Triple Antibiotic Susceptibility of Hospital acquired Infections”, Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS), Palm Springs, CA., October 2021
  6. McCloskey, D., Erickson, D. “Early-stage Diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Africa using KSHV DNA Quantification” Pittcon, Chicago IL, March 2020
  7. Wang, R., Vemulapathi, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. “A Novel Capillary-based Platform for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing” Pittcon, Chicago IL, March 2020
  8. Cao, X., Hong, T., Liu, T., Erickson, D. “Engineering the glass waveguide surface for uniform light refraction inside an optofluidic photoreactor” Photonics West, San Francisco, CA Feb 2020
  9. Cao, X., Hong, T., Liu, T., Akemi, J., Hanrath, T., Erickson, D. “A scalable glass waveguide-based optofluidic photoreactor for converting CO2 to fuels” Photonics West, San Francisco, CA Feb 2020.
  10. Martin, J., Semeere, A., Gardner, A., Snodgrass, R., Kopparthy, V., Lukande, R., Laker-Oketta, M., Wenger, M., Alvarez, J., Freeman, E., Maurer, T., Erickson, D., Cesarman, E., “Employing the Virus Alone to Diagnose the Cancer: Quantification of Lesional KSHV DNA for the Diagnosis of Kaposi Sarcoma in Africa” 22nd International Workshop on Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpes Virus (KSHV) & Related Agents, New York, NY, July 2019.
  11. Semeere, A., Gardner, A., Wenger, M., Namaganda, P., Snodgrass, R., Kopparthy, V., Freeman, E., Ssali, J., Bwana, B., Maurer, T., Lukande, R., Laker-Oketta, M., Erickson, D., Cesarman, E., Martin, J. “Quantification of KSHV DNA as a diagnostics test for Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Africa.” INTEREST, Accra, Ghana, May 2019
  12. Snodgrass, R., Erickson, D. “A two-stage elastocaloric cooler for increased temperature span” Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies Conference and Exposition, Konstanz, Germany, May 2019
  13. Snodgrass, R., Erickson, D. “A Heat-Driven Shape Memory Alloy Actuator, Used for Thermal Cycling of the Two-Step Polymerase Chain Reaction” Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies Conference and Exposition, Konstanz, Germany, May 2019
  14. Semeere, A., Gardner, A., Wenger, M., Namaganda, P., Snodgrass, R., Kopparthy, V., Freeman, E., Ssali, J., Bwana, B., Maurer, T., Lukande, R., Laker-Oketta, M., Erickson, D., Cesarman, E., Martin, J. “Quantification of KSHV DNA as a diagnostics test for Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Africa.” Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle, WA, March 2019
  15. Rey E, Finkelstein J, Erickson D. “Point-Of-Care Assessment of Folate Status Using a Fluorescence Lateral Flow Assay” Conference Paper, EMBC, Honolulu, HI, July 2018.
  16. Cao, X., Yhombi, S., Erickson, D., “An optofluidic reverse combustion reactor for photothermocatalytic conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons” Photonics West, San Francisco CA, January 2018
  17. Cao, X., Yhombi, S., Erickson, D., “A smartphone based dual-plexed molecular diagnostics platform for point-of-care (POC) inflammation assessment” Photonics West, San Francisco CA, January 2018
  18. Lu, Z., Srinivasan, B., Mehta, A., Erickson, D., “A low-cost, multiplexed, rapid diagnostic test for iron and vitamin a deficiency” Photonics West, San Francisco CA, January 2018
  19. Kopparthy, V., Erickson, D. “Ultra-portable, spectrometer based nucleic acid quantification system for point-of-care applications” Photonics West, San Francisco CA, January 2018
  20. Erickson, D., Semeere, A., Mauer, T., Martin, J., Cesarman, E., “Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Limited Resource Settings using TINY technology” AORTIC International Conference on Cancer in Africa, Kigali, Rwanda, November 2017
  21. Wang, R., Tablante, E., Yhombi, S., Lu, Z., Cardenas, W., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. “FeverPhone – Multiplex Immunoassay Platform for Detection of Acute Febrile Illnesses” IEEE-HI-POCT 2017, Bethesda, MD, USA, November 2017.
  22. Srinivasan B, Lee S, O’Dell D, Mehta S, Erickson D. “ironPhone for rapid assessment of iron status at point-of-care” IEEE-HI-POCT 2017, Bethesda, MD, USA, November 2017.
  23. Martin, j., Semeere, A., Snodgrass, R., Namaganda, P., Gardner, A., Wenger, M., Freemen, E., Maurer, T., Lukande, R., Laker-Oketta, M., Erickson, D., Cesarman, E., “Portable Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing as a Means for Diagnosis of Kaposi Sarcoma in Africa” International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS, Bethesda, MD, October 2017
  24. Snodgrass, R., et al. “TINY: A portable system for nucleic acid quantification in the field using alternative heat sources” MicroTAS 2017, Savannah, Georgia, USA, October 2017.
  25. Vemulapati, S., et al. “NutriPhone – A Quantitative Point-of-Care Assay for the assessment of Vitamin D deficiencies” MicroTAS 2017, Savannah, Georgia, USA, October 2017.
  26. Schein, P., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “Measurement of nanoparticle size, suspension polydispersity, and stability using near-field optical trapping and light scattering” Photonics West, San Francisco, Jan 2017
  27. Schein, P., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic reactors for reverse combustion photocatalytic production of hydrocarbons” Photonics West, San Francisco, Jan 2017
  28. Lu, Z., Erickson, D., “Smartphone-assisted multiplex nutrition deficiency diagnostics: multicolored quantification of inflammation marker, iron and vitamin A status” Photonics West, San Francisco, Jan 2017
  29. Srinivasan B, Lee S, O’Dell D, Mehta S, Erickson D. “A Smartphone-Coupled Portable Biosensor for Assessment Of Iron Deficiency in Children” µTAS, Dublin, Ireland, October 2016
  30. Srinivasan B, Lee S, O’Dell D, Mehta S, Erickson D. “A smartphone-based point-of-care ferritin biosensor for assessment of iron deficiency” Micronutrient Forum Global Conference: Positioning Women’s Nutrition at the Centre of Sustainable Development. Cancun, Mexico, October 2016.
  31. Srinivasan B, Lee S, O’Dell D, Mehta S, Erickson D. “A Smartphone-Enabled Portable Diagnostics for Iron Deficiency in Resource-Limited Settings” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 2016.
  32. Rey, E., O’Dell, D., Lee, S., Erickson D. “Quantification of C-Reactive Protein using a Lateral Flow Immunoassay and a Smartphone-enabled Device” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 2016.
  33. Rahman, T., Adams, A.T., Schein, P., Jain, A., Erickson, D., Choudhury, T. “Nutrilyzer: A Mobile System for Characterizing Liquid Food with Photoacoustic Effect” ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), October 2016
  34. O’Dell, D., Schein, P., Saraf, S., Erickson, D., “Characterizing Nanoparticle Size and Particle-Surface Interactions Using Nanophotonic Force Microscopy” Pittcon, Atlanta, GA, March 2016.
  35. O’Dell, D., Lee, S., Hohenstein, J., Erickson, D. “A Smartphone Platform for Quantitative Point-of-Care Detection of Micronutrient Deficiencies” Pittcon, Atlanta, GA, March 2016
  36. Rey, E., O’Dell, D., Lee, S., Erickson, D. “Smartphone Based Detection of Stress Biomarkers in Saliva” Pittcon, Atlanta, GA, March 2016
  37. Schein, P., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “Direct measurement of nanoparticle interactions using near-field photonics” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2016.
  38. Schein, P., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “An integrated optofluidic platform for assessing biologics” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2016.
  39. Jain, A., Rey, E., Lee, S., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D. “StressPhone: smartphone enabled detection of stress related salivary biomarkers” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2016
  40. Lee, S., O’Dell, D., Hohenstein, J., Colt, S., Metha, S., Erickson, D., “NutriPhone: smartphone platform for vitamin B12 quantification in point-of-care settings” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2016
  41. O’Dell, D., Lee, S., Erickson, D. “A smartphone platform for quantitative lab-on-a-chip diagnostics” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2015
  42. O’Dell, D., Shein, P., Kang, P., Erickson, D. “Characterizing protein aggregation by observing confined Brownian fluctuations in a near-field optical trap” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2015
  43. Shein, P., Kang, P., Erickson, D. “Nanophotonic force microscopy: measuring particle-surface interactions using near-field photonics” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb 2015
  44. Lee, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. “Vitamin D Testing on your Smartphone” BMES 2014 Annual Meeting, October 2014.
  45. Gardner, A., Jiang, L., Lu, Z., Akar, G., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D., “KS-Detect: A Solar-Powered Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosing Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Resource-Limited Settings” MicroTAS 2014, November 2014.
  46. Jiang, L., Gardner, A., Lu, Z., Akar, G., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D., “KS-Detect: A Solar-Powered Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosing Kaposi’s Sarcoma in Resource-Limited Settings” BMES 2014 Annual Meeting, October 2014.
  47. Schein, P., and Erickson, D. “Nanophotonic Force Microscopy: Characterizing Particle-Surface Interactions Utilizing Optical Gradients” 88th ACS Colloid and Surface Sciences Symposium. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2014.
  48. O’Dell, D., Serey, X., Erickson, D. “Opto-mechanical manipulation of chemical reactions on the nanoscale with optofluidic nanotweezers” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb. 2014
  49. Ahsan, S.S., Pereyra, B., Erickson, D. “Uniform algal growth in photo-bioreactors using surface scatterers” Photonics West, San Francisco, Feb. 2014
  50. Oncescu, V., Erickson, D. “Smartphone based detection of blood cholesterol and vitamin D status” mHealth Summit. Washington, D.C, Dec.2013.
  51. Mancuso, M., Erickson, D. “Smartphone Based Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpes Virus DNA” mHealth Summit. Washington, D.C, Dec.2013.
  52. Jain, A., Jung, E., Kalontarov, M., Ahsan, S.S., Erickson, D, “Design and Demonstration of a Stacked Photobioreactor for Production of High Density Algal Cultures and BioFuel”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA. Nov. 2013.
  53. Jain, A., Jung, E., Kalontarov, M., Erickson, D, “Thermal and Optical Analysis of a Stacked Photobioreactor Design”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA. Nov. 2013.
  54. Kalontarov, M., Jung, E., Jain, A., Ahsan, S.S., Erickson, D, “Hollow Fiber Membrane (HFM) Facilitated CO2 Delivery to a Cyanobacteria Substrate for Biofuel Production”, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, San Diego, CA. Nov. 2013.
  55. Oncescu, V., Lee, S., Gumus, A., Karlsson, K., Erickson, D. “Autonomous Implantable Device with Application in Late Phase Hemorrhagic Shock Prevention” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 2013.
  56. Kang, P., Chen, Y.-F., Erickson, D., “Label-free Optofluidic Biomolecular Sensing using a Photonic Crystal Nanotweezer: The Wiggle Assay,” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 2013.
  57. Gumus, A., Lee, S., Karlsson, K., Gabrielson, R., Winkler, D.W., Erickson, D. “Real-time Biosensor System for Biophysical Monitoring of Birds” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Freiburg, Germany, Oct. 2013.
  58. Mancuso, M., Li, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. “Smartphone Based Vitamin D Monitoring.” IUNS 20th International Conference on Nutrition. Grenada, Spain, Sep.2013.
  59. Kang, P., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic Nanomanipulation with Photonic Crystal Nanotweezers: A Simplified Design for Variation,” US-KOREA Conference (UKC) 2013, East Rutherford, NJ, Aug. 2013
  60. Mancuso, M., Erickson, D. “Smartphone based Molecular Diagnostics.” OSA Congress on Advanced Photonics. Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Jul. 2013. (Invited Talk)
  61. Mancuso, M., Erickson, D. “Smartphone Based Optical Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus DNA.” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO). San Jose, CA, Jun. 2013. (Invited Talk)
  62. Cordovez, B., Hart, R., Erickson, D. “The Molecular NanoTweezer: nanomanipulation taken to new lows” Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, February 2013.
  63. Kang, P., Serey, X., Chen, Y.-F., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “Near-Field Angular Orientation Of Biological Materials,” Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2013
  64. Kang, P., Serey, X., Chen, Y.-F., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., “Near-Field Angular Orientation Of Biological Materials,” Biophysical Society 57th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2013
  65. Ahsan, S., Erickson, D., “Microscale Transport Processes in Photocatalytic Reactors” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, Tx. Nov. 2012.
  66. Jung, E., Erickson, D., “Flexible Photonics Based Optofluidic PhotoBioReactors” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Houston, Tx. Nov. 2012.
  67. Mancuso, M. Jiang, L., Cesarman, E., Erickson, D. “Lab-on-a-Syringe Diagnosis or Kaposi’s Sarcoma in the Developing World” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Okinawa, Japan, October 2012.
  68. Jiang, L., Mancuso, M., Erickson, D. “Light-Driven Microfluidics Towards Solar-Powered Point-Of-Care Diagnostics” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Okinawa, Japan, October 2012.
  69. Oncescu, V., Lee, S., Erickson, D. “Implantable device for prevention of late-phase hemorrhagic shock using a novel non-enzymatic fuel cell.” Micro Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Okinawa, Japan, October 2012.
  70. Gumus, A., Lee, S., Karlsson, K., Gabrielson, R., Winkler, D., Erickson, D. “Real Time in-vivo Uric Acid Biosensor System for Biophysical Monitoring of Birds”, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Atlanta, GA, October 2012.
  71. Mak, M., Reinhart-King, C.A., Erickson, D. “Dimensional Modulation in Confined Spaces Elucidates Transition Effects in Cancer Cell Invasion.” BMES, Atlanta, GA, October 2012
  72. Jung. E.E., Kalontarov, M., Doud, D., Angenent, L., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. ” Novel Approach in Algae Biofuel Production using Advanced Photonics” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2012.
  73. Jain, A., Erickson, D. “Agarose gel optical waveguides with encapsulation of live cells and integrated microfluidics” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2012.
  74. Serey, X., Chen, Y.F., Fain, R., Kang, P., Erickson, D. ” Overcoming the Temperature Increase Hurdle in Photonic Crystal Molecular Tweezers” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2012.
  75. Ooms, M., Sieben, V.J., Erickson, D., Sinton, D., “An Optofluidic Photobioreactor Strategy for Bioenergy” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, Co, Nov. 2011.
  76. Oncescu, V.-V., Erickson, D., “A Microfabricated Enzyme-Free Glucose Fuel Cell for Implantable Devices ” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, Co, Nov. 2011.
  77. Jiang, L., Erickson, D., “Directed assembly of microstructures using bubble latches” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Denver, Co, Nov. 2011.
  78. Gumus, A., Winkler, D., Erickson, D., “Lab on a Bird: Autonomous Microsystems for In-Vivo real time biophysical monitoring of birds” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2011.
  79. Kang, P., Ogunbo, S.O., Erickson, D., “High Resolution Reversible Color Images on Photonic Crystal Substrates” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2011.
  80. Serey, X., Erickson, D. “Advancements in photonic crystal resonators for optical trapping” 1st EOS conference on Optofluidics, Munich, Germany May 2011.
  81. Jung, E.E., Chung, A.J., Erickson, D. “Advancements in Microfluidically Reconfigurable Photonics” 1st EOS Conference on Optofluidics, Munich, Germany May 2011
  82. Mancuso, M., Goddard, J., Erickson, D. “Porous Polymer Waveguides and Ring Resonators.” CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  83. Kalontarov, M., Cordovez, B., Jung, E., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. “Waveguide Enabled Photo-Bio-Energy Production” CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  84. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D. “Optofluidically reconfigurable channel based microfluidics” CLEO: Science and Innovations, Baltimore, MD May 2011.
  85. Chen, Y.-F., Serey, X., Mandal, S., Erickson, D. “Nanomanipulation using silicon nitride photonic crystal resonators” IEEE Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO, Jan. 2011.
  86. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D. “Creating optically reconfigurable channel based microfluidic systems” IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO Jan. 2011.
  87. Moore, S., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. “Planar flow-through Vanadium Redox laminar flow fuel cell”ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Nov. 2010.
  88. Kalontarov, M., Cordovez, B., Jung, E.E., Sinton, D., Erickson, D. “Optofluidically Enabled Bio-Energy Production” ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B.C. Nov. 2010.
  89. Mandal, S., Erickson, D., “Optofluidic approaches to protein folding analysis” Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science: Special Session on Optofluidics in the Near Field, Rochester, NY, October 2010.
  90. Krishnan, M., Erickson, D., “Optically Reconfigurable Microfluidics” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  91. Cordovez, B., Chung, A.J., Huang, T., Jasuja, N., Erickson, D.,“Fusing Chemical and Electrical Stimulation Mechanisms for Cyborg Air Vehicle Control” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  92. Choi, I., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D.,“A Nanofluidic Device for Selective Concentration and Lable-Free Surface-Enhanced Raman Detection of Protein Aggregates” Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS), Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2010.
  93. Mak, M., Reinhart-King, C., Erickson, D., “An Optofluidic Platform for Characterizing Mechanical Markers of Metastatic Cancer” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin, TX, October 2010.
  94. Chung, A.J., Cordovez, B., Huh, Y.S., Erickson, D., “Autonomous Microfluidic Device for Quantification and Regulation of Vasopressin” Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Austin, TX, October 2010.
  95. Jung, E., Huh, Y.S., Erickson D., “Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) on-an-Optofluidic Chip Using Roof Collapse Method” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.
  96. Chung, A.J., Jung, E., Erickson D., “Reconfigurable Photonics from Microfluidic Waveguides” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.
  97. Serey, X., Mandal S., Erickson D., “Design and Experimental Demonstration of Optical Resonators for Nanotweezing” Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, May 2010.