JACOB O’BRIEN

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Graduate Student

MS

University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering (Current)

BS

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Mechanical Engineering (2019)

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Jacob received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2019. Following his undergraduate studies, he joined the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory where he is developing robotic systems capable of high-throughput, single cell microinjection.

 

Publications

Hu, J.*, O’Brien, J.*, Joshi, A.*, Navabi, Z.*, Algeria, A.*, & Kodandaramaiah, S. B. (2021). Automated device for public elevator control panel UVC sanitization. 2021 Design of Medical Devices Conference. *Equal Contribution.

O’Brien, J., Sherman, P., Riedl, M., Auch, B., Skroput, A., Gohl, D., Vulchanova, L., Kodandaramaiah, S. B. (2020).  Robotic barcode tagging of single cells in intact tissue for spatial and functional transcriptomics. Institute for Engineering in Medicine 2020 Annual Conference.

Algeria, A.*, Joshi, A.*, O’Brien, J.*, & Kodandaramaiah, S. B. (2020). Single neuron recording: progress towards high-throughput analysis. Bioelectronics in Medicine, 3(3), 33-36. *Equal Contribution.


 

HOnors and awards

2019 University of Minnesota Graduate School Mechanical Engineering Master’s Fellowship