Publications
McRae, O., Walls, P. L., Natarajan, V., Antoniou, C., & Bird, J. C. (2024). “Elucidating the effects of microbubble pinch‐off dynamics on mammalian cell viability.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 121(2), 524-534. PDF here
Cousins, K., Sano, K., Lam, B., Röltgen, K., Bhavsar, D., Singh, G., McRae, O., ... & Cunningham-Rundles, C. (2023) “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Immunoglobulin Products.” The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 11(8), 2534-2541.
Dubitsky, L.*, McRae, O.*, & Bird, J. C. (2023). “Enrichment of Scavenged Particles in Jet Drops Determined by Bubble Size and Particle Position.” Physical Review Letters, 130, 054001. PDF here
McRae, O., Ramakrishnan, T. S., & Bird, J. C. (2022). “Microscale heterogeneous pore occupancy with variable background resistance.” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 608, 1919-1928.
McRae, O., Oratis, A. T., & Bird, J. C. (2021). “Viscous wrinkling of nonuniform sheets.” Physical Review Fluids, 6(11), 110506.
McRae, O., Mead, K., & Bird, J. (2021). “Aerosol agitation: Quantifying the hydrodynamic stressors on particulates encapsulated in small droplets.” Physical Review Fluids, 6(3), L031601. Free to read here.
Nazari, M., Xi, M., Aronson, M., McRae, O., Hong, M. K., Gummuluru, S., ... & Reinhard, B. M. (2019). “Plasmon-Enhanced Pan-Microbial Pathogen Inactivation in the Cavitation Regime: Selectivity Without Targeting.” ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2(4), 2548-2558.
Walls, P. L., McRae, O., Natarajan, V., Johnson, C., Antoniou, C., & Bird, J. C. (2017). “Quantifying the potential for bursting bubbles to damage suspended cells.” Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-9.
McRae, O., Gaillard, A., & Bird, J. C. (2017). “Periodic jetting and monodisperse jet drops from oblique gas injection.” Physical Review E, 96(1), 013112.
*Co-first authors
Conference Presentations
O. McRae, A. Gongora, A. White. “Modeling human red blood cell damage using experiments and machine learning”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, NV. March 2023.
O. McRae, L. Dubitsky, J.C Bird. “Where precisely does the fluid in a jet drop come from?”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 75th Annual meeting, Indianapolis, IN. November 2022.
O. McRae, J.C Bird. “Cell mortality associated with acute hydrodynamic stressors from capillary pinch-off”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 74th Annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ. November 2021.
O. McRae, K. Mead, J.C Bird. “Hydrodynamic agitation may naturally disinfect the smallest pathogen-laden aerosols”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 73rd Annual meeting, Chicago, IL. November 2020 (Virtual).
O. McRae, T.S Ramakrishnan, J.C Bird. “Microscale heterogeneous pore occupancy with variable background pressure gradient”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society -Division of Fluid Dynamics 72nd Annual meeting, Seattle, WA. November 2019.
O. McRae, J.C Bird. “Bubble-induced fluid stresses and viability changes in nearby mammalian cells”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 71st Annual meeting, Atlanta, GA. November 2018.
O. McRae, P. Walls, V. Natarajan, C. Johnson, C. Antoniou, J.C Bird. “Liquid stresses associated with a bubble pinch-off event”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 70th Annual meeting, Denver, CO. November 2017.
O. McRae, T.S Ramakrishnan, J.C Bird. Capillary imbibition in parallel tubes. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 69th Annual meeting, Portland, OR. November 2016.
O. McRae, A. Gaillard, J.C Bird. “Flapping jets and monodisperse droplets formed by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability”. Contributing Talk, American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics 68th Annual meeting, Boston, MA. November 2015.