Selected Publications

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Peer Reviewed Journal Papers 

• Salek, M.M., Carrara, F., Zhou, J., Stocker, R., Jimenez-Martinez, J. (2024) Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes. Advanced Science (Accepted).
• Salek, M.M., Fernandez, V.,  D'souza, G., Puigmartí-Luis, J., Stocker, R., Secchi, E. (2021) An interdisciplinary and application-oriented approach to teach microfluidics, Biomicrofluidics 15, 014104.
• Hosseini, V., Mallone, A., Nasrollahi, F., Ostrovidov, S., Nasiri, R., Mahmoodi, M., Haghniaz, R., Baidya, A., Salek, M.M., Darabi, M.A., Orive, G., Shamloo, A., Dokmeci, M.R., Ahadian, S., Khademhosseini, A. (2021) Healthy and diseased in vitro models of vascular systems, Lab on a Chip 21(4): 641-659.
• Behrendt, L., Salek, M.M., Trampe, E.L., Fernandez, V., Lee, K.S.,Kühl, M., Stocker, R. (2020) PhenoChip: A single-cell phenomic platform for high-throughput photophysiological analyses of microalgae, Science Advances 6(36), eabb2754.
• Hosseini, V., Mallone, A., Mirkhani, N., Noir, J., Salek, M.M., Pasqualini, F.S., Schuerle, S., Khademhosseini, A., Hoerstrup, S.P., Vogel, V. (2020) Pulsatile Flow Systems: A Pulsatile Flow System to Engineer Aneurysm and Atherosclerosis Mimetic Extracellular Matrix, Advanced Science 7 (12), 2070063.
• Carrara, F., Brumley, D.R., Hein, A.M., Yawata, Y., Salek, M.M., Lee, K.S., Sliwerska, E., Levin, S.A., Stocker, R. (2020) Generating Controlled, Dynamic Chemical Landscapes to Study Microbial Behavior, Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 155, e60589.
• Nguyen, M.C., Peerhossaini, H., Pashmi, E., Salek, M.M., Jarrahi, M. (2020) Active Control of Passive and Active Particle Distribution at the outlet of Double Y-Microchannel Using Pulsatile Flow, Transactions of the ASME J. of Fluids Eng. 142 (8).
• Salek, M.M., Carrara, F., Fernandez, V., Guasto, J.S. and Stocker, R. (2019) Bacterial chemotaxis in a microfluidic T-maze reveals strong phenotypic heterogeneity in chemotactic sensitivity, Nature Communications, 10(1), 1877.

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• Salek, M.M., Carrara, F., Fernandez, V., and Stocker, R. (2019) Bacterial maze runners reveal hidden diversity in chemotactic performance, Microbial Cell,  6(8): 370 - 372
• Secchi, E., Rusconi, R., Buzzaccaro, S., Salek, M.M., Smriga, S., Piazza R. and Stocker, R. (2016) Intermittent turbulence in flowing bacterial suspensions, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 13:1-8.
• Dol, S.S., Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2014) Energy Redistribution between the Mean and Pulsating Flow Field in a Separated Flow Region, Transactions of the ASME J. of Fluids Eng., 136(11), 111105.
• Dol, S.S., Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2014) Effects of Pulsation to the Mean Field and Vortex Development in a Backward-Facing Step Flow, Transactions of the ASME J. of Fluids Eng., 136(1), 011001.
• Salek, M.M., Sattari, P., Martinuzzi, R.M. (2012) Analysis of Fluid Flow and Wall Shear Stress Patterns Inside Partially-Filled Agitated Culture Well Plates. Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME), 40(3):707-28.
• Viegas, K.D., Dol, S.S., Salek, M.M., Shepherd, R.D., Martinuzzi, R.M. and Rinker, K.D. (2011) Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus adhesion to Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells demonstrates shear dependent behavior. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2011, 10:20.
• Kostenko, V., Salek, M.M., Sattari, P. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2010) Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation and tolerance to antibiotics in response to oscillatory shear stresses of physiological levels. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, 59: 421–431.
• Salek, M.M., Jones, S.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2009) The influence of Flow Cell Geometry Related Shear Stresses on the Distribution, Structure and Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa O1 Biofilms. Journal of Biofouling, 25: 711-725.
• Sedighi, M. and Salek, M.M., (2008) Modeling And Experimental Study Of Quenching Process For AISI 4340 Aeronautical Steel Under Different Cooling Conditions. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), 32: 1-8.

Patent

• Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2015) Annular Culture Dish, application number: PCT/CA2014/050703; publication number: WO2015013817 A1

Book chapter

• Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2010). Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Hydrodynamic Analysis in Commonly Used Biomedical Devices in Biofilm Studies, Numerical Simulations - Examples and Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Lutz Angermann (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-153-4, InTech.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Shahamiri, A., Salek, M.M. May, W. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2012) Application Of Binary Fluid Ejector In Thermal Vapor Compression Distillation Systems. Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE2012), November 9-15, 2012, Houston, Texas, USA.
• Salek, M.M., Sattari, P. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2010) What Do Biofilms Sense in Agitated Well Plates? A Combined CFD and Experimental Study on Spatial and Temporal Wall Shear Stress Distribution. Proceedings of the IEEE 36th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, March 26-28, 2010. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/NEBEC.2010.5458174.
• Dol, S.S., Salek, M.M., Viegas K.D., Martinuzzi, R.J. and Rinker, K.D. (2010) Micro-PIV and CFD Studies Show Non-Uniform Wall Shear Stress Distributions Over Endothelial Cells. ASME 2010, 8th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Aug 1-4, 2010, Montreal, Canada.
• Salek, M.M., Dol, S.S. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2009) Analysis of Pulsatile Flow in a Separated Flow Region. Proceedings of ASME Fluid Engineering Summer Meeting, Vail, Colorado, USA, Aug 2-5, 2009.
• Salek, M.M., Jones, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2009) Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm susceptibility in response to increased level of shear stresses and flow agitation. Proceedings of IEEE 35th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 3-5, 2009. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/NEBC.2009.4967769.
• Dol, S.S., Salek, M.M., Rinker, K.D and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2008) Micro-PIV Study of a Flow Chamber Used in Studies of Microbial Biofilms and Endothelial Cells. Proceedings of 9th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 24-26, 2008.
• Kostenko, V., Salek, M.M., Boraey, M.A., Surette, M.G. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2008) Escherichea Coli Biofilm formation and Susceptibility in Response to Increased Shear stresses. Proceedings of the ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2008), Marriott Resort, Marco Island, Florida, USA, June 25-29, 2008.
• Kostenko, V., Boraey, M.A., Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2008) Rough substratum surface facilitates Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation in the presence of antibiotics. Proceedings of the ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2008), Marriott Resort, Marco Island, Florida, USA, June 25-29, 2008.
• Salek, M.M., Boraey, M.A., Kostenko, V. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2008) Analysis of Fluid Sloshing in the Part-Filled Moving MBECs. Proceedings of 16th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, June 8 -10, 2008, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
• Salek, M.M. and Martinuzzi, R.J. (2007) Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Oxygen Transport in the Tube Flow Cells Containing Biofilms. Proceedings of the 5th Joint ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Conference, July 30-August 2, 2007, San Diego, California, USA.
• Shojaee Fard, M.H., Noor poor, A.R. and Salek M.M. (2004) Numerical Solution Flow Field in Porous Media Section of Catalytic Converter in a Diesel Engine. Proceedings of International Mechanical Engineering Conference & Expo.(IMECE), December 5-8, 2004, Kuwait.