[Illinois] GEM4 2012: Mechanobiology in Development

17 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Developmental Biology The 2012 GEM4 Summer School program consists of lectures in the mornings by experts in cellular and molecular mechanics and developmental biology, and hands-on labs in the afternoons on various experimental techniques in …

[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 27: Cancer Metastasis and Elasticity of Micro-Environment

12 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated. The …

[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 24: Link Between Mechanics and Cell Behavior

12 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated. The …

[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 26: A few basics of mechanics in light of cell biology

12 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated. The …

[Illinois] CMMB IGERT & M-CNTC Annual Symposium: Program Overview

06 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

The second annual CMMB IGERT PI and Trainee Meeting was held on August 31, 2011. Dr. Saif walks through the goals and current status of the programs, and introduces the students involved.

[Illinois] CMMB IGERT & M-CNTC Annual Symposium: IGERT Research Issues Panel

06 Jun 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rashid Bashir, Rohit Bhargava, Stephen Boppart, Ann M. Nardulli, Taher A. Saif, Mike Gregory, Erich Lidstone

The second annual CMMB IGERT PI and Trainee Meeting was held on August 31, 2011. A panel of students and instructors discuss the research issues regarding and the future of the IGERT program at Illinois.

[Illinois] B3SI 2012: International Collaboration Panel

17 May 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hao-Ming Hsiao, Irfan S. Ahmad, Nai-Jen Harry Chang, Taher A. Saif, Xin Tang, Hsiang-Yu Angie Wang

Deeper understandings of biological systems and advances in nanotechnology have provided new opportunities to make significant progress in mechanobiology, biosensing and dynamic control of engineered systems, with wide range of applications such as cancer research. In order to take advantage of …

[Illinois] Bio-sensing Summer Series 2010: Feeling the Cell Force

09 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Advances in informatics, nanotechnology, and deeper understanding of biological systems have provided new opportunities to make fundamental advances in sensing and dynamic control of engineered systems. BioSensing-BioActuation (BSBA) is a developing new research frontier that will profoundly impact …

[Illinois] B3SI 2012: Mechanobiology in Neuronal Development

03 Aug 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Deeper understandings of biological systems and advances in nanotechnology have provided new opportunities to make significant progress in mechanobiology, biosensing and dynamic control of engineered systems, with wide range of applications such as cancer research. In order to take advantage of …

Illinois CNST Annual Nanotechnology Workshop 2011: Nanoscale Force Sensors for Biological Applications

13 Jun 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Professor Saif's research focuses on the mechanics of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), fracture mechanics, submicron materials behavior and bio-MEMS. He uses MEMS devices, often of his own design, to explore the mechanics of extremely small things-from nanocrystalline metal films to living …

[Illinois] BioE 498/ME 498: Experimental Methods for Biological Machines (Traction Force Microscopy Experiment)

09 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif, Samantha Knoll, Sandeep Anand

Traction Force Microscopy (TFM) Using polyacrylamide gels with fluorescent microspheres, students in Professor Saif's laboratory Samantha and Sandeep show how to track cellular motion and calculate traction forces. In this video, the students first walk through the procedure of creating the …

Illinois BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 23: Mechano-transduction mechanical micro environment determine cell fate (examples), possible mechanisms

14 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

NCN@Illinois, Laura Miller Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and BioNanotechnology (IGERT) Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology NCN@Illinois

Illinois BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 22: Mechano-transduction mechanical micro environment determine cell fate

14 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif

Lecture by Taher Saif.

2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Lecture 28: Seeing the Unseen: the Force Story of a Cancer Cell

07 May 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Taher A. Saif