Main skills

• Microfluidics: Fabrication and various manipulations with PDMS flow chambers for blood perfusion experiments, experience in the design of microfluidics chambers
• Soft lithography: Photolithography process, clean room attendance, mask fabrication, mask design, microfluidics
• Microscopy: light microscopy, confocal microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, electron microscopy
• Blood cells separation: separation of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets from the whole blood with the help of microfluidics, centrifugation or gel-filtration, platelet poor or platelet-free plasma preparation, and lipoprotein separation with the help of ultracentrifugation
• Numerical methods and mathematical modeling in biology: Comsol Multiphysics software (hydrodynamic models), MatLab software, Python programming (numerical simulations)
• Image analysis: ImageJ
• Mathematics: Statistics, Probability theory, Linear Algebra, Differential Equation, Mathematical analysis, Computational Mathematics, Bioinformatics
• Programming: Python (basic)
• Flow cytometry: analysis of cell populations
• Work with proteins: protein extraction, purification by gel-filtration, dialysis, electrophoresis, chromatography; protein labeling; spectroscopic methods of protein analysis: spectrophotometry, spectrofluorimetry, infrared spectroscopy of proteins, protein surface immobilization
• Knowledge of biotechnology-related software: Origin (statistic tools), GraphPad Prism (statistic tools), MS Office, etc
• Biological databases: PubMed, BLAST, PDB

LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A.Mukhamedshin, R.Reddington, Mai T. P. Dinh et al., Rapid, label-free enrichment of lymphocytes in a closed system using a flow-through microfluidic device. Bioengineering &Translational Medicine. (2023)

Lezzar, D.L., Lam F.W, Mukhamedshin A. et al. A high-throughput microfluidic device based on controlled incremental filtration to enable centrifugation-free, low extracorporeal volume leukapheresis. Scientific Reports. (2022).

Iqbal M,, Mukhamedshin A., Dalia L., et al. Recent advances in microfluidic cell separation to enable centrifugation-free, low extracorporeal volume leukapheresis in pediatric patients. Blood Transfusion Journal. (2023).

K.Abhishek, A.Mukhamedshin, et al., Size matters: rosette-enabled size-based separation of lymphocyte subtypes in a microfluidic device. Lab on a chip. (2023)

HONORS

UMNIK, 500000RUB innovative research grunt from Russian RVK Fund

Graduate Student Fellowship, the University of Houston in the amount of $48,000