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

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.

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

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

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