SAMANTHA LINN
Lab Manager/Data Wrangler
BBme
University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics minor (2019)
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Samantha received her B.Bme. in Biomedical Engineering with honors from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2019. She is currently one of three lab technicians in the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory where she primarily works on data processing for the Mesoscope project. Starting in fall 2020, she will begin her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Utah.
Publications
Mathew L Rynes, Daniel Surinach, Samantha Linn, Michael Laroque, Vijay Rajendran, Judith Dominguez, Orestes Hadjistamoulou, Zahra S Navabi, Leila Ghanbari, Gregory W Johnson, Mojtaba Nazari, Majid Mohajerani, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah, (2020, June). Miniaturized head-mounted device for whole cortex mesoscale imaging in freely behaving mice. bioRxiv.
Mathew L Rynes, Leila Ghanbari, Daniel Sousa Schulman, Samantha Linn, Michael Laroque, Judith Dominguez, Zahra S Navabi, Peter Sherman, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah, (2020). Assembly and operation of an open-source, computer numerical controlled (CNC) robot for performing cranial microsurgical procedures. Nature Protocols.
William S Boyle, Weili Chen, Astrid Rodriguez, Samantha Linn, Jakub Tolar, Karen Lozano, Theresa M Reineke, (2019). Ternary composite nanofibers containing chondroitin sulfate scavenge inflammatory chemokines from solution and prohibit squamous cell carcinoma migration. ACS Applied Bio Materials.
HOnors and awards
2020 University of Utah Center for Quantitative Biology Fellowship
2020 University of Utah Enhancing Diversity and Graduate Student Educational Success (EDGES) Scholarship
2019-2020 University of Minnesota Regents Scholarship
2017 University of Minnesota President’s Student Leadership & Service Award