Jacob Waitkus

Silicon Micropillar-Enhanced CRISPR Biosensor for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Drug-Resistant Bacteria

This paper develops a silicon micropillar-enhanced CRISPR biosensor for detecting drug-resistant bacteria, achieving high sensitivity and specificity for MRSA.

Antibiotic-Mediated Plasmonic Resonance on a Novel Nanopillar Metasurface Array

This paper demonstrates a biosensing platform using a silicon nanopillar metasurface coupled with LSPR mediated by cephalexin antibiotics, achieving a 22 nm wavelength shift for sensitive detection.

Multi-Channel Funnel Adapted Sensing Tube (MFAST) for the Simple and Duplex Detection of Parasites

The paper introduces MFAST, a diagnostic chip for rapid, sensitive, and specific detection of Leishmania species, enabling duplex detection and stable performance in low-resource settings.