N. J. Cira

This paper introduces a digital droplet microarray system for high-throughput antibiotic tolerance measurement using SPOTs and Poissonian statistics, demonstrating its application to Klebsiella pneumoniae.

This paper introduces a method to precisely load scarce reagents on droplet microarrays, reducing material usage and enabling high-throughput assays with minimal volumes.

EZ-SPOTs provides a cost-effective, reusable liquid handling platform for high-throughput experiments, matching gold standard assays in antibiotic susceptibility testing.

This paper develops a scalable protocol for microbial isolate genotyping using colony PCR and a four-barcode indexing scheme, achieving 90% identification accuracy on 93 environmental samples.

This paper introduces traveling networks, analyzes their structure and motion through a tree-based model, and demonstrates their application to real-world systems.

This paper introduces M2D2, a two-stage ML model that identifies synergistic antimicrobial drug combinations and validates them experimentally against E. coli.

The paper introduces SPOTs, a low-cost, scalable platform for liquid handling that enables high-throughput experiments with precision and compatibility with existing lab equipment.