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Cells: The Building Blocks of Life Learning Module - Instructor Guides
28 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides a review of "cells", the smallest unit exhibiting the properties of life. It discusses how these cells are being used in bioMEMS as well as other micro and nano-sized devices. A research activity provides the opportunity to further explore how...
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Inference from Single Molecules to Cells
19 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Steve Pressé
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Nanoparticle Pollutants
17 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Darren Hayes, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano
Many plastics are in our oceans due to pollution, including ocean dumping and land runoff. Sunlight and alkaline ocean water break these plastics down into small particles, many are nanoscale in size. These nanoparticles can easily enter our cells. Students examine if and how these...
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Pulsed Power as an Enabling Technology for Cellular Manipulation and Cancer Treatment
02 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Allen Garner
Ongoing research explores the application of pulsed power for biomedical applications, including athermal sterilization of milk, water, and juices, cancer treatment, permeabilization of cells and tissues for drug delivery, and even wound healing. This lecture will provide a general overview...
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Tissue-Level Communication Through Patterning Of Intercellular Ca2+ Wave Dynamics
22 Nov 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremiah J. Zartman
Here we characterize periodic intercellular Ca2+ waves (ICWs) in a model organ system of epithelial growth and patterning—the Drosophila wing imaginal disc. We developed a novel regulated environment for micro-organs (REM-Chip) device that enable a broad range of genetic, chemical and...
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MidQBio 2016: 4th Midwest Quantitative Biology Symposium
22 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Srividya Iyer-Biswas, Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem, Andrew Mugler
The MidQBio Symposium aims to bring together research groups from around the Midwest with a shared interest in quantitative biology, and to help build a community of these researchers. The symposium provides researchers opportunities to meet periodically to disseminate recent results; network...
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The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Its role in metastasis? Can Theory Help Cancer Biology?
19 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Herbert Levine
In order to spread from the primary tumor to distant sites, cancer cells must undergo a coordinated change in their phenotypic properties referred to as the "epithelial-to-mesenchymal" transition. We have studied the nonlinear genetic circuits that are responsible for this...
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Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells
22 Sep 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Mugler
In this talk I will describe recent theoretical and experimental results in which this question is explored in several contexts, including gradient detection by groups of epithelial cells. I will show how communication allows cells to perform qualitatively new behaviors that single cells cannot...
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Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM) for Studying the Invasiveness of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Cells
08 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Lydia Kwon
Bionanotechnology Seminar Series
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E304 L10.1.2: Nanobiotechnology - Information Storage and Retrieval in the Cell
14 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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E304 L10.1.3: Nanobiotechnology - Energy Generation and Storage Within the Cell
14 Jun 2016 | | Contributor(s):: ASSIST ERC
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[Illinois] Rare Events with Large-Impact: Bioengineering & Clinical Applications of Circulating Tumor Cells
04 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Mehmet Toner
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[Illinois] Role for Stiffness in Vascular Fate
29 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Lian Wong
Stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells, have been explored as tools for studying development, as well as, potential sources for a large number of therapies in regenerative medicine. Traditionally, ESC are cultured on TC-plastic, however; it has been...
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[Illinois] Advances in Nanoindentation Techniques for Wood Cell Walls
18 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Joseph Jakes
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[Illinois] Nanomechanics of adherent cells
18 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Richard Chadwick
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[Illinois] Nanomechanics of nonadherent cells
18 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Richard Chadwick
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Single Molecule Imaging in Live Cells
28 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Kenneth Ritchie
Bacteria, such as Escherichia coli and Caulobacter crescentus, are the most studied and perhaps best-understood organisms in biology. The advances in understanding of living systems gained from these organisms are immense....
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Iterative Solution Method for an Implicit Orbit Averaged Particle-in-Cell Model
18 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Benjamin Sturdevant
Present kinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetized plasmas employ models from gyrokinetic theory, which is based on a number of ordering assumptions used to reduce the Vlasov-Maxwell system to eliminate high frequency phenomena. Recently, a second order accurate, implicit particle-in-cell...
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[Illinois] Knowledge, Context, and Process: Building a Foundational Infrastructure for Engineering Cells for Use in an Uncertain World
18 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Adam Arkin
Both natural and synthetically augmented organisms, like those engineered to produce advanced biofuels, ultimately have to operate in an uncertain world. Resources change, contact with other life, and yield surprising interactions, and in some cases, changes in one’s own genetic code lead...
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Traction Force Microscopy
17 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Bara Saadah, AbderRahman N Sobh, Alireza Tofangchi
This is a tool for particle motion tracking with respect to physical forces.