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Soumya K. Srivastava, Assistant Professor
Microfluidics & Electrokinetics bioSeparation & Analysis (MESA) Laboratory

News

  • Mar 2024: Christopher Smith is awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship for 2024!
  • Mar 2024: Alexa Bostic is selected for the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program!
  • Mar 2024: Raphael Oladokun wins the 2024 Golden Torch Graduate Student of the Year Award at NSBE50
    Raphael      Raphael     award
       Chris Smith        Kayla
       Negar
  • Jul 2023: Christopher Smith was recognized as the Runner-Up for his presentation at the 16th Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.
     Chris
  • Jun 2023: MESA Lab had the pleasure of hosting two high school students, Pooja Karan and Alexandra Yuan, this Summer! 
            Pooja & Alexandra
  • Apr 2023: Kayla Wagner has been accepted into Honors EXCEL! (Experiential and Community-Engaged Learning) Program.
  • Apr 2023: MESA Lab's graduate students Raphael, Negar, Deepika, and undergraduate student Christopher Smith presented at the 10th Annual Bioengineering Day at the University of Pittsburgh. Chris Smith received the BEST RUNNER-UP for his poster on Human Breast Cancer.
       Students of MESA Lab      Raphael    Certificate
  • Mar 2023: Christopher Smith is selected for the 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program. He is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP; David Miller, PI).
  • Mar 2023: MESA Lab's graduate students, Raphael, Negar, and Deepika, presented their posters   at the 2nd Annual Research Symposium at West Virginia University.
  • Nov 2022: Congratulations to Raphael for placing 1st at the 13th Annual Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Symposium (PSRS).

  • Sep 2022: Dr. Srivastava receives a new R01 award from NIH-NIAID focused on developing a new diagnostic tool to detect tick-borne infections- babesiosis, Lyme disease, and anaplasmosis!
  • Aug 2022: MESA Lab welcomes Yaram Deepika Reddy (new Graduate student in ChE) and all the undergraduates, Emma Walker, Leah Ward, Rhys Campbell, and Christopher Smith.
  • Jul 2022: MESA Lab had the pleasure of hosting two high school students, Vanessa An, and Isha Gangavaram this Summer! They had a great productive summer leading to co-authors on a publication!
Vanessa and Isha in the lab     Isha centrifuging samples     Vanessa sample preparing in lab

  • Spring 2022: Congratulations to Amna! Her abstract was selected for NCUR 2022 @Home. She will be presenting her research virtually.
  • Spring 2022: Welcome Raphael and Ernest to WVU and MESA Lab
  • Fall 2021: Amna joined MESA lab as an UG student through RAP program
  • Fall 2021: MESA Lab moved to WVU