Kenza.S.

PhD ECEng
Microfluidics & Synthetic Biology
Shih Microfluidics Lab
Concordia University, Montréal, CA

Bioengineer, science communicator. PhD Researcher at the Shih Microfluidics Lab, community manager and co-founder at Bricobio, your local Montréal DIYBio lab, freelance biotech consultant. I’m also on the SynBio Canada’s Steering Committee as a Community Officer, involved with iGEM as judge and iGEM Concordia instructor.

For my day time job (PhD), I build cool things, like control systems that can make you play with cells and droplets on a chip.
Otherwise, I grow cool things, like Kombucha leather lamps, fermented mustard …

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Academic interests: Microfluidics, (mammalian) synthetic biology, ecosystem engineering, gene drives, mycorrhizal fungi.

Other: Traveling (lots of it), outdoor adventures and photography/art.

Publications

2020 Little, S. R., Perry, J. M., Samlali, K., & Shih, S. C. C. (2020). CHAPTER 8: Droplet Microfluidics: Applications in Synthetic Biology. In Droplet Microfluidics (pp. 193–222).

Samlali K., Ahmadi F., Quach A. B. V., Soffer G., Shih, S.C.C. (2020). One cell, one drop, one click: Hybrid microfluidic mammalian single-cell isolation. SMALL,16(34), 2002400 DOI:10.1002/smll.202002400.

Samlali K., Ahmadi F., Quach A. B. V., Soffer G., Shih, S.C.C. (2020). One cell, one drop, one click: Hybrid microfluidic mammalian single-cell isolation. BioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.24.908202.

2019

Ahmadi F., Samlali K., Vo PQS, Shih S.C.C. (2019). An integrated droplet-digital microfluidic system for on-demand droplet creation, mixing, incubation, and sorting. Lab on Chip, DOI: 10.1039/c8lc01170b.

Thesis

M.Sc. Thesis. Samlali, K. Development of an EMS based random mutagenesis method of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) R.irregularis DAOM-197198 for industrial applications and mycorrhizal research. Faculty of Bioscience Engineering - KU Leuven