2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Enabling Technologies
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GEMS 4 Summer School
Topics:
- Fundamentals of Cell and Molecular Biology
- Basics of Mechanics in connection with Biological Systems
- Mechanotransduction at a distance in a living cell
- Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases
- Effects of mechanical stiffness and applied force on ligand-receptor binding kinetics at the cell-material interface
- Fundamentals of molecular dynamics and computational molecular nanomechanics
- Mechanics and Bioengineering of Basement Membranes and Extracellular Matrix
- Inflammation in Human Disease and the Auto-digestion Hypothesis
- Engineering Digital Surfaces for Programming Cell Responses
- Fundamental Problems of Computational Bio-mechanics of Cardiovascular Flow
- Review of Cellular Imaging Techniques
- Statistical mechanics of cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions; Multi-scale approaches to study cellular adhesions
- Models and Experiments in Cytoskeletal Mechanics
- Cell microrheology: fundamentals and applications
- Next generation single molecule fluorescence technologies
- Intracellular Force Transduction
- Microfluidic systems in neurobiology
- Probing Cellular Motility using Microfluidic Tools
- Migration of epithelial cells
- Small Scale Biomechanics Measurements
- Electro-mechanical Sensing of Biomolecules and Cells on a Chip
- FIONA: Super-'Resolution' Microscopy
- Moving cells on chips, microfluidics, and clinical medicine
- Mechanotransduction at cell-cell contacts
- Nanotechnology for Cellular and Molecular Manipulations
- Live cell imaging in mechanobiology
- Deciphering mechanical and chemical signals in the extracellular matrix
- Computational methods for understanding the dynamics of interacting motor molecules in muscles
- Discussion: Issues in Physical Sciences - Biology Collaboration
- The Chemical and Mechanical Signals Driving Neutrophil Polarity and Chemotaxis
- New Soft Materials for Wound Repair and Tissue Engineering
- Seeing the Unseen: the Force Story of a Cancer Cell
Credits
Organizing Committee at University of Illinois
* K. Jimmy Hsia, Mechanical Science and Engineering
* Rashid Bashir, Electrical and Computer Engineering and BioEngineering
* Taher Saif, Mechanical Science and Engineering
* Irfan Ahmad, Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Sponsored by
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine (GEM4)
University of Illinois Co-Sponsors:
* Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory
* Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
* Center for Cellular Mechanics
* Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
* College of Veterinary Medicine
* Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Funded by Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division of National Science Foundation (CMMI)
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