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

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* 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

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)

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Rashid Bashir; Taher A. Saif; Irfan S. Ahmad; Omar N Sobh; Jimmy K. Hsia (2010), "2009 GEM4 Summer School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : Cellular and Molecular Mechanics with a focus on Enabling Technologies," https://nanohub.org/resources/8174.

1. Cellular Mechanics
2. GEMS4
3. Illinois
4. Molecular Mechanics
5. nano/bio