[Illinois]: Cancer Community Symposium 2012: A Sensitivity Scale for Targeting T Cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) and Bispecific T Cell Engagers (BiTE)

09 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jennifer Stone

Using a patients immune system to target cancer and maintain long-term surveillance is an attractive goal. Although T cells can respond potently to tumors, immune tolerance mechanisms often result in …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13941

[Illinois]: Cancer Community Symposium 2012: DriveRank: Discovering Patient-Specific Driver Mutations

09 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jack Pu Hou

One of the pressing challenges in cancer genomics is to distinguish driver mutations (i.e. mutations involved in tumorigenesis) and passenger mutations (i.e. functionally neutral mutations). Current …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13939

[Illinois]: Cancer Community Symposium 2012: Elevated Estrogen Signaling Drives Tumorigenesis in a Novel Animal Model for Ovarian Epithelial Cancer

09 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mary Jo Laws

We generated a mouse model where aberrant estrogen receptor alpha (Esr1) signaling in the hypothalamo-pituitary-ovarian axis leads to ovarian tumorigenesis. In this model, termed Esr1d/d, the Esr1 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13938

Appreciating Nature's Antibiotics as Chemical Treasures

12 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher T. Walsh

This lecture is part of the 28th Annual H.C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry.

https://nanohub.org/resources/11446

Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School Lecture 3: Introduction to Cellular Bioengineering

04 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yingxiao Wang

Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Illinois (NCN@Illinois)

https://nanohub.org/resources/12511

Illinois BioNanotechnology Seminar Series Fall 2011: Deconvolving Stiffness in MEMS Pedestal Cell Mass Measurements

05 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Elise Corbin

The complex relationships between a cell's behavior and the physical properties of both itself and its environment have long been of interest. Specifically, the understanding the mechanisms through …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12445

Illinois ECE 564 Modern Light Microscopy

25 Apr 2012 | Courses | Contributor(s): Gabriel Popescu

Current research topics in modern light microscopy: optics principles (statistical optics, Gaussian optics, elastic light scattering, dynamic light scattering); traditional microscopy (bright field, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/13845

Illinois Nano EP Seminar Series Spring 2011: Interfacing Engineering, Biology, and Medicine at the Micro and Nano Scale

13 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rashid Bashir

In this talk, we will present an overview of our work in Silicon-Based BioMEMS and Bionanotechnology and discuss the state of the art and the future challenges and opportunities. We will review a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12403

KIST/PU 6th Annual Symposium: High Impact Research to Society

07 Dec 2011 | Workshops

In 2006, the South Korean Ministry of Science and Technology selected the KIST and Purdue team project from 20 international research proposals submitted to examine how to learn more about the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12648

KIST/PU Advances in detection systems for biology: Classifying signals from fluorescence and scatter

08 Dec 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): J. Paul Robinson

Biology-driven advances in photonic detection systems have been dramatic in the last several years. Three specific aspects are of particular interest: molecular detection, cellular detection, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3789

KIST/PU The Professor’s Challenge: To commercialize or not, that is the question?

06 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): J. Paul Robinson

Outline: Outline the Professors Dilemma Show what the normal criteria for research project direction is Discuss the Corporate perspective Discuss an example of failed innovation Demonstrate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12652

KIST/PU Theragnosis – A New Paradigm of Personalized Medicine

06 Dec 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ick Chan Kwon

Companion Diagnosis, based on pharmacogenomics, has been recognized as one of most important key representatives of personalized medicine. However, Companion Diagnosis does not provide any clues in …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12649

[Illinois] Bioengineering Seminar Series

08 Feb 2013 | Series

Bioengineering combines the analytical and experimental methods of the engineering profession with the biological and medical sciences to achieve a more detailed understanding of biological phenomena …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16722

[Illinois] Bioengineering Series: Non-conventional Raman Spectroscopy Applications Towards the Compositional Analysis of Soy Bean Seed

07 Dec 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Matthew Schulmerich

Nonconventional Raman spectroscopy: applications towards the compositional analysis of soybeans Raman spectroscopy has proven to be a non-destructive approach to obtaining chemically specific …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16085

[Illinois] ECE 416: Biosensors

07 Feb 2013 | Courses | Contributor(s): Brian Cunningham

Learn the underlying engineering principles used to detect small molecules, DNA, proteins, and cells in the context of applications in diagnostic testing, pharmaceutical research, and environmental …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16705

[Illinois] Intro to Cellular Bioengineering

15 Jun 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yingxiao "Peter" Wang

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https://nanohub.org/resources/14310

[Illinois]: Bioengineering Seminar Series: Advances in the Science of Medical Imaging System Design

26 Nov 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Insana

In this talk, Professor Insana provides a history and overview of the medical imaging system industry, including concepts in imaging system design. He also shares his own research as well has some of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/15985

[Illinois]: Bioengineering Seminar Series: Engineering Quantum Dots for Multispectral Cancer Imaging

03 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew Smith

Video will be available in May 2013 Quantum dots are light-emitting nanocrystals that have emerged as a new class of fluorescent label for molecular and cellular imaging. These particles have …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16191

[Illinois]: BioEngineering Seminar Series: Modular Engineering of Tissue Reconstruction Scaffolds

03 Feb 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Scott Hollister

Tissue engineering scaffolds must fulfill a plethora of requirements to support tissue regeneration, including replication of complex defect geometry, provision of mechanical support, provision of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16707