Peer-reviewed Publications
- Rasnow B (2024) Flipping the electronics lab: Learning upper division
electronics at home. Amer. J. Phys. 92:809-818.
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0206534,
Supplementary files.
- Ruiz T, Seligman M, Espinola D, Rasnow B, McDonough P, Cisneros I, Flores C, Sanches PM, Veldman B,
Becerra CA, Hauck C (2024) Mapping Electric Potential Fields for Aerospace Corrosion Assessment using an Array-Driven SRET
Platform. 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2024, pp. 1-10,
doi: 10.1109/AERO58975.2024.10521210.
- Balen J, Dean N, Gillespie B, Parmar N, Rasnow B, Wyels C (2012)
Developing Cultural Literacy in the STEM Disciplines. J. Multiculturalism in Education 8(1).
- Kahle J, Levin R, Niles W, Rasnow B, Schehlien M, & Shumate C (2011)
Applications of a Compact, Easy-to-Use Inverted Fluorescence Microscope. American Laboratory
43(11):11-14 and cover photo.
- Kahle J, Levin R, Niles L, Rasnow B, Schehlein M, Shumate C (2010)
An Inexpensive Simple-to-Use Inverted Fluorescence Microscope: A New Tool for Cellular
Analysis. Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation 15(5):355-361.
- Hong Y, Webb BL, Pai S, J, Ferrie AM, Peng J, Lai F, Lahiri J, Biddlecome G,
Rasnow B, Johnson M, Min H, Fang Y, Salon J (2006)
G-protein-coupled receptor microarrays for multiplexed compound screening.
J Biomol Screen 11:435-438.
- Hong Y, Webb BL, Su H, Mozdy EJ, Fang Y, Wu Q, Liu L, Beck J, Ferrie AM,
Raghavan S, Mauro J, Carre A, Mueller D, Lai F, Rasnow B, Johnson M, Min H,
Salon J, Lahiri J (2005)
Functional GPCR Microarrays. J Am Chem Soc 127(44):15350-15351.
- Kha H, Zhou W, Kui C, Karan-Tamir B, San Miguel T, Zeni L,
Kearns K, Mladenovic A, Rasnow B, Robinson M, Wahl RC. (2004)
A Telomerase enzymatic assay that does not use PCR, radioactivity, or
electrophoresis. Anal Biochem 331(2):230-234.
- Johnson MI, Li C, Rasnow B, Grandsard P, Xing H, Fields A (2002)
Converting a protease assay to a Caliper (R) format labchip system.
J Assoc Lab Automation 7(4):62-68.
- Hartmann M, Assad C, Rasnow B, Bower JM (2000)
Applications of video mixing and digital overlay to neuroethology.
Methods 21(4):385-391.
- Assad C, Rasnow B, Stoddard PK (1999)
Electric organ discharges and electric images during electrolocation.
J Expt Biol 202:1185-1193 and the cover,
- Stoddard PK, Rasnow B, Assad C, Bower JM (1999)
The electric organ discharges of the gymnotiform fishes III.
Brachyhypopomus. J Comp Physiol A 184:609-630 and the cover.
- Assad C, Rasnow B, Stoddard PK, Bower JM (1998)
The electric organ discharges of the gymnotiform fishes II.
Eigenmannia. J Comp Physiol A 183:419-432 and the cover,
- Rasnow B, Assad C, Hartmann MJ, Bower JM (1997)
Applications of multimedia computers and video mixing to neuroethology.
J Neurosci Methods 76:83-91.
- Rasnow B and Bower JM (1996)
The electric organ discharges of the gymnotiform fishes I. Apertonotus leptorhynchus.
J Comp Physiol A 178:383-396,
- Rasnow B (1996)
The effects of simple objects on the electric field of
Apteronotus. J Comp Physiol A 178:397-411.
- Rasnow B, Assad C, Bower JM (1993)
Phase and amplitude maps of the electric organ discharge of the weakly electric
fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus. J Comp Physiol A 172:481-491.
Research Abstracts and Public Lectures
- Vadgama CD, Rasnow B (2025)
Whole-Plate Imaging of Beating Cardiomyocytes: High-Througput hERG Assays for Safer Drug
Development Amgen University Day, June 2025.
- Espinola D, Curtin S, Becerra CA, Rasnow B (2024) Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC).
CSUCI Student Research Conference.
- Espinola D, Morales, JG, Seligman J, Mendoza M, Curtin S, Rasnow B, Flores C, Becerra CA, Suarez R
(2024) Corrosion Modeling Experimentation using SRET/SVET. CSUCI Student Research Conference.
- Thornburgh E, Damon W, Ranasinghe D, Rasnow B (2024) An
Inexpensive Bimodal Neuromodulator for Tinnitus. CSUCI Student Research Conference. CSUCI.
- Lockwood A, Thoms B, Rasnow B (2024)
Quantifying Biological Rhythms: An FFT-Based Approach to Visualization
of Nematode Feeding Frequencies. CSUCI Student Research Conference. CSUCI.
- Hauk C, Ruiz T, Sanchez P, Becerra CA, Rasnow B, Flores C (2023)
Electrochemical Corrosion Model Validation and MIC Analysis Utilizing SVET and sSVET.
15th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Adams T, Hauck C, Gregg C, Ruiz T, Lockwood A, Seligman M, Rasnow B (2022)
An Automated Platform For High Throughput Fluorescence Microscopy
14th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Dominguez D, Seligman M, Seligman J, Garcia E, Rasnow B (2021)
Reengineering Cooking with an Inexpensive Pellet Stove
13th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Seligman M, Rasnow B (2020)
Creating a flexible user interface in MATLAB for a Lumascope(TM) microscope.
12th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Seligman M, Stepek CJ, Yu H, Snell J, Hunt J, Rasnow B (2020)
Mapping the Electric Organ Discharge of Gnathonemus petersii.
12th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Seligman M, Hunt J, Bran L, Stepek CJ, Valladarez C, Millstone T, Granados J, Rasnow B (2019)
Mapping Electric Organ Discharges of Weakly Electric Fish.
11th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Seligman M, Medina L, Hernandez E, Brown E, Rasnow B (2018)
Automating Measurements In An Electronics Lab. 10th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Rasnow B, Ramirez B, Barrick A (2017)
An Intelligent Air Compressor. 9th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
(Earned "Outstanding Research Poster" Award.)
- Ramirez J, Eckert B, Gephart A, Delgado J, Chavez N, Hicks R, Rasnow B (2017)
Imaging Cardiomyocyte Beating Across Entire Microtiter Plates.
9th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI
- Rasnow B, Applying Engineering & Technology for the Extreme Poor.
Discovery Center for Science and Technology Science Speaker Series. Thousand Oaks, CA.
- Rasnow B, Schulze T, Singh R, Clark BJ (2016)
An Inexpensive & Accurate Temperature Logger to Measure Melting Ice Kinetics.
8th Annual SAGE Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Zsarnay A, Mora-Larscheid A, Rasnow B (2016) Spinning Milk Crown. 8th Annual SAGE Student
Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Rasnow B (2016) Extreme Automation: From Hypoxic Chambers to the World's Oceans and 3 Billion
Poor People in the Developing World. Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening 5th Annual
International Conference, San Diego, CA (and Session Chair).
- Rasnow B (2015) Modeling climate change in a test tube.
Annual Meeting of the Far West Section of the American Physical Society.
- Peraza J, Ruvalcaba D, Saunders M, Vega D, Rasnow B, Harper CD (2015). Digital Control of a
Monochromator for Raman Spectroscopy. ACCESO Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Quintanar L, Lee M, Clarke K, Rasnow B (2015)
Smart well pumping controller.
Sage Student Research Conference, CSUCI. (Earned "Outstanding Research Poster" Award.)
- Cervante J, Chen H, Clarke K, Goede D, Torosian A, Rasnow B (2014)
Motorized Telescope Mount Using a Raspberry Pi. Sage Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Barber T, Clifton D, Hillman C, Quintanar L, Rasnow B, Sacolles S, Van Hoven S, (2014)
Digital Microscopes and Imagers from Raspberry Pi Webcams - Exploring a New Paradigm.
Sage Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Hillman C, Hipskind M, Quintanar L, Labriola J, Waner D, Goede D, Knowles C, Rasnow B (2014).
Do Jacob's Ladders Produce Dangerous X-Rays? Sage Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Brogon W, Olson S, Pina R, Rasnow B (2014)
Building a Radically Inexpensive Spectrometer Using a Raspberry Pi Sage Student Research Conference, CSUCI.
- Magana V, Cordero J, Valvdivia A, Rasnow B (2013)
Robotic Exploration of Electrosensory Space.
Project ACCESO Summer Research Institute, CSUCI.
- Niles WD, Rasnow BK, Levin RK, Schehlein M, Shumate CB, Snyder EY (2012) Extensive
expression of lamellipodia and migration by human fetal-derived neural stem cells
(hNSC) cultured in vitro: Observation with LumaScopeâ„¢, an inexpensive, compact,
sturdy USB-based inverted CMOS microscope. Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa VII,
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
- Kahle J, Levin K, Niles W, Rasnow B, Schehlein M, Shumate C (2010) LumaScope(TM): an
inexpensive, compact, sturdy USB-based inverted fluorescence microscope. Society
for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
- Rasnow B (2010) An Inexpensive CMOS- and USB-based Inverted Fluorescence Microscope
for exploring optics, physics, and biology at a smaller length scale. American
Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Portland, OR.
- Li C, Xu H, Wang J, Wang W, Rasnow B. (2010) A High Throughput Multimodal Dispense
and Image Detector Enables Novel Applications. Society for Biomolecular Screening
2010 Annual Conference, Phoenix, Az.
- Rasnow B (2009)
Do-it-yourself electronics laboratory. Southern California Section of the American
Association of Physics Teachers 2009 Annual Conference, CSUCI, Camarillo, CA.
- Rasnow B (2007) New assay formats for drug discovery. Pan American Health Care
Engineering Conference, CSULB, Long Beach, CA.
- Li C and Rasnow B (2007) A simple state machine controls a drug discovery automation
platform. Association for Laboratory Automation Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
- Rasnow B (2006) Igenieria biomedica en la investigacion y desarroyo de farmaceuticos.
Pan American Health Care Engineering Conference, Long Beach, CA. (Oral presentation in
Spanish).
- Rasnow B (2005) Micro- and nano-technology in drug discovery and development.
ASME Biomedicine Miniaturization Conference, Irvine CA.
- Rasnow B, Kearns K, Tudor Y, Powers D (2005) An automated platform for kinase
selectivity screening. Association for Laboratory Automation Annual Meeting,
San Jose, CA
- McPhail T, Brown H, Middleton S, Rasnow B (2005) Automating Emulsion Preparation for
Screening Anti-Inflammatory Compounds. Association for Laboratory Automation
Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA
- Webb B, Pai S, Ferrie A, Hong Y, Peng J, Fang Y, Lai F, Lahiri J, Biddlecome G, Rasnow B,
Johnson M, Min H, Salon J (2004) Solid state GPCR assays for multiplexed target
screening. Society for Biomolecular Screening Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
- Klionsky L, Tamir R, Shi, L, Qian Y, McGivern J, Rasnow B, Curran E, Wild K, Louis J, Gavva N,
Treanor J (2004) Pharmacological characterization of antagonists at the human and rat/human
chimeric TRPV1 channels. Society for Biomolecular Screening Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
- Kearns K, Rasnow B (2004) Achieving Flexible Productive Automation in
Drug Discovery Operations: A Strategic Prospective.
Society for Biomolecular Screening Annual Meeting, Orlando Fl.
- Li C, McGivern JG, Qian Y, Rasnow B (2004) A bioluminescence-based high throughput
screening system for the study of ion chanels and G-protein coupled receptors.
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore MD.
- Rasnow B, Li C (2003) A robotless automated high throughput flash luminescence system.
Society for Biomolecular Screening Annual Meeting, Portland, Or.
- Rasnow B. (2003) The Speciometer: a prototypical microfluidic device. Physics &
chemistry of microfluidics, Gordon Research Conference, Big Sky, Montana.
- Rasnow B, Johnson M, Grandsard P (2003) Barriers to miniaturizing drug
discovery. Smalltalk, San Jose, CA.
- Rasnow B, Kearns K, Grandsard P (2002) Open-sourcing laboratory
automation software. Association for Laboratory Automation Annual
Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
- Li C, Rasnow B, Ross S, Qian Y, Overland D, Burgess T, Grandsard P (2001)
Automated analytical imaging tool complemented the development of
osteoporosis assays. High Throughput Technologies Expo, Philadelphia.
- Rasnow B, Johnson M, Grandsard P, Tagari P, Fields A, Xing H, Yao M, Ausserer W
(2001) LabChip(R) applications for drug discovery: Results from the
Amgen-Caliper Collaboration. Association for Laboratory Automation
Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
- Rasnow B, Lile J, Kearns K, Tamir R, Treanor J (2000) A high throughput
screening system for calcium channel modulators. Society for
Biomolecular Screening 6th Annual Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
- Rasnow B (2000) Biomedical engineering curriculum: an individual
perspective from industry. IEEE 2nd Annual Biomedical Engineering
Academic Conference, Santa Barbara, CA
- Rasnow B, Li C, Johnson M, Mayeda C, Grandsard P, Pacifici R, Tagari P,
Fields A, Xing H, Yao M (2000) Screening in LabChips(R): Early
results from the Amgen-Caliper Partnership. Smalltalk 2000: The
microfluidics and microarrays conference. San Diego, CA (oral
presentation and guest chair).
- Erkkila TH, Rasnow B. (2000) High-throughput programming for high
throughput screening. Association for Laboratory Automation Annual
Meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
- Stauber G, Wahl R, Powers D, Tagari P, Rasnow B, Grandsard P, Pacifici R
(1999) AMGEN in CALIPER's Technology Access Program: A Collaborative
Partnership to Leverage Miniaturization on the Small Molecule Drug
Discovery Process. Society for Biomolecular Screening 5th Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Scottland.
- Erkkila T, Fairbairn D, Li C, Rasnow B, Tagari P (1999) Applications of
Twister in HTS. ISLAR, Boston, MA.
- Erkkila TH, Fairbairn D, Henige K, Rasnow B, Pacifici R (1999) Automated
DNA Minipreps. Association for Laboratory Automation Annual
Meeting, San Diego, CA. Awarded best poster presentation.
- Rasnow (1998) Modeling EOD generation and electric images in weakly electric
fish. Electric Fish Satellite Symposium, 5th International Congress of
Neuroethology, San Diego, CA. Second invited speaker.
- Stoddard PK, Rasnow B, Assad C (1995) Electric organ discharges of the
gymnotiform fish Brachyhypopomus spp. Nervous Systems and
Behavior, Proc. 4th Intl. Congress of Neuroethology. 417.
- Rasnow B, Bower JM (1994) Properties of the electric images of simple
obejcts. Soc Neurosci Abstr, 20:370.
- Assad C, Rasnow B, Stoddard P, Bower JM (1994) Maps of the electric
organ discharges of several gymnotiform fish. Soc Neurosci Abstr 24:370.
- Assad C, Rasnow B, Bower JM (1990) Phase and amplitude measurements of
the electric organ discharge of Apteronotus leptorhynchus. Soc
Neurosci Abstr, 16:1327.
- Rasnow B, Nelson ME, Bower JM (1988) Measurement of the electric field
of Gnathonemus petersii and reconstruction of fields generated
during exploratory behavior. Soc Neurosci Abstr, 14:204.
- Bower JM, Banik J, Nelson ME, Rasnow B (1988) New technical approaches
to monitoring and interpreting the dynamics of real neural networks.
IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Proc, 20:1921-1922.
- Nelson ME, Rasnow B, Banik JJ, Bower JM (1988) Spatial and temporal
patterns of purkinje and granule cell activity recorded simultaneously in
the rat cerebellum using silicon microelectrodes. Soc Neurosci Abstr,
14:759.
- Nelson ME, Rasnow B, Carman GJ, Bower JM (1987) Recording and analyses
of the dynamics of activity in ensembles of Purkinje cells recorded
simultaneously in cerebellar cortex. IBRO Abstr 2:S635.
- Rao M, Rasnow B, Nelson ME, Bower JM (1987) The influence of granule
cells on Purkinje cells in tactile regions of the rat cerebellar cortex:
An in vitro intracellular and in vivo multi-single unit approach. Soc
Neurosci Abstr, 13:602.
- Carman GJ, Rasnow B, Bower JM (1986) Analysis of the dynamics of
activity in ensembles of neurons recorded simultaneously in cerebellar
cortex. Soc Neurosci Abstr, 12:1417.
Book Chapters and Reviews
- Rasnow B (2014)
Electricity, eels and evolution. Review of Turkel, W. Spark from the Deep. Physics World 27(7):44-5.
- Rasnow B (2005) Measuring and visualizing EOD fields.
In Ladich F, Collin SP, Moller P, Kapoor BG (Eds.)
Communication In Fishes. Science Publishers Inc., Enfield, NH, USA
ISBN 1-57808-328-1
- Rasnow B, Bower JM (1997)
Imaging with Electricity: How Weakly Electric Fish Might Perceive
Objects. Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. Bower JM (ed)
Plenum, New York, pp 795-800.
- Leigh J, Vasilakis CA, DeFanti TA, Grossman R, Assad C,
Rasnow B, Protopappas A, De Schutter E, Bower JM (1995)
Virtual Reality in Computational Neuroscience. In Earnshaw RA,
Vance JA, Jones H (Eds.) Virtual Reality Applications. Academic
Press, London, pp 293-306.
- Assad C, Rasnow B, and Bower JM (1992) Numerical Simulations of the
Electric Organ Discharge of Weakly Electric Fish. In Bower JM and
Eeckman F (Eds.) Computation and Neural Systems. Kluwer Press, Boston,
pp. 281-285.
- Williams R, Rasnow B, Assad C (1990)
Hypercube Simulations of Electric Fish Potentials. In Walker D (Ed.),
Proc. Fifth Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Charleston, SC.
- Rasnow B, Assad C, Nelson M, and Bower JM (1989)
Simulation and
Measurement of the Electric Fields Generated by Weakly Electric Fish.
In Touretzky D (Ed.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA. pp. 436-443.
My research and photographs have also appeared in:
- Automated microscope and Webb Telescope interview on KVTA-AM radio, Jan 24, 2022.
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Microscope co-designed by CSUCI Physics lecturer is used onboard the International Space Station
By Kim Lamb Gregory, and interview on KVTA-AM radio, Mar 22, 2021
- Microscope Co-Designed By Ventura County Lecturer Is Used Aboard The International Space Station By Caroline Feraday, KCLU Public Radio, Jan 2021.
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Automated Microscopy in Hypoxic Environments: Does This Change Everything? by Jessica Burdg, Laboratory Equipment 26-27, June 2016.
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Earth Day Flier, Fundaeco
(Guatemala's major environmental NGO)
, June 2012.
