PhD, University of Connecticut (2022)

Current Research

• Engineering Pedagogy
• Integration of Humanities in Engineering

Professional Activities

• Member: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Member: American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Newsletter Co-Chair, ASEE Chemical Engineering Division, 2023 - Present

Awards and Honors

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Faculty of the Year (voted by students), 2024
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2021
• Conference Participation Award, 2021
• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Predoctoral Teaching Fellowship, 2021
• General Electric (GE) Fellowship for Innovation – Communication and Pedagogy, 2020

Selected Publications

• • "Protocol for screening and validating antibodies specific to protein phosophorylation sites using a set of yeast biopanning approaches", Arbaciauskaite, M., Pirhanov, A., Paoloni, J., Lei, Y., Cho, Y.K., STAR Protocols, 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103241
  • “Yeast biopanning against site-specific phosphorylations in tau”, Arbaciauskaite, M., Pirhanov, A., Ammermann, E.,  Lei, Y., Cho, Y.K., Protein Engineering Design & Selection, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/protein/gzad005
  • “High specificity antibodies and detection methods for quantifying phosphorylated tau from clinical samples”, Arbaciauskaite, M., Lei, Y., Cho, Y.K., Antibody Therapeutics, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/abt/tbab004