Melinda Lake was awarded a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. She is continuing postdoctoral research with co-advisors, Dr. Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr. Steven Wereley, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and collaborator, Dr. Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. During her fellowship, she developed microfluidic devices for point-of-care diagnostics of diseases such as malaria and HIV in blood and detection of Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera, in water. Dr. Lake's research interests are in microelectrochemical systems (MEMS), microfluidic devices, and cell mechanics - lab-on-a-chip engineering solutions to solve critical health problems.