Krista Meserve
5th year Graduate Student in Chemistry
kmeserve@umich.edu
Hometown: Hollis, Maine
In the Bailey Lab, Krista works to develop and apply multiplexed immunoassays on the microring platform. Current applications of interest include preterm neonate immune system characterization and diagnostics for latent tuberculosis infection.
GET TO KNOW Krista
Undergraduate Degree: 2018 B.S. in Chemistry from Emmanuel College in Boston, MA
Previous work experience: Research Assistant, Matrivax R&D Corporation
Favorite food: Chicken pot pie
Favorite TV shows: Criminal Minds and Schitts Creek
Favorite sports to watch: Gymnastics and any Boston-based sports team (Go Red Sox, Bruins, and Patriots!)
Favorite place visited: New York City
What lab-themed superpower would you like to have? Automatic refill of reagents!
If you were not doing science, what would you be doing? I’d be a chef or event planner!
What can people find you doing outside of the lab? Spending time with friends and family, tending to my houseplants or drinking dunkin’ donuts coffee.
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Bailey Lab Publications
Chorioamnionitis-exposure alters serum cytokine trends in premature neonates, G.E. Stepanovich*, C.A. Chapman*, K. Meserve, J.M. Sturza, L.A. Ellsworth, R.C. Bailey, J.R. Bermick, Journal of Perinatology, 2022.
DOI: 10.1038/s41372-022-01584-2Detection of biomarkers for filoviral infection with a silicon photonic resonator platform, K. Meserve,* A.J. Qavi*, M.J. Aman, V. Hong, L. Zeitlin, J.M. Dye, J.W. Froude, D.W. Leung, L. Yang, F.W. Holtsberg, G.K. Amarasinghe, R.C. Bailey, STAR Protocols, 2022, 3.
DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101719Rapid detection of an Ebola biomarker with optical microring resonators, A.J. Qavi*, K. Meserve*, M.J. Aman, V. Hong, L. Zeitlin, J.M. Dye, J.W. Froude, D.W. Leung, L. Yang, F.W. Holtsberg, R.C. Bailey, G.K. Amarasinghe, Cell Reports Methods, 2022, 2.
DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100234Highlighted in Cell Reports Methods Meet the Authors: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100241
Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing, D. Yu, M. Humar, K. Meserve, R.C. Bailey, S.N. Chormaic, F. Vollmer, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2021, 1. DOI: 10.1038/s43586-021-00079-2