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1. A profile of a Nano EPICS High School - Agawam High School

   10 May 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Tamecia Raishaun Jones

   This is a short profile of an EPICS High School that has found a way to integrate nano into its curriculum.  The profile describes how the teacher used her specialized background in marine biology to create a plan for nano project in a marine biology classroom.  At the time, this...

2. [Illinois] Light/Matter Interactions in Biology

   13 Apr 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain

   Light/Matter Interactions at the Nano-Bio Interface Workshop

3. [Illinois] NanoBIO Interfaces

   13 Apr 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Aleksei Aksimentiev

   11/29/2016Light/Matter Interactions at the Nano-Bio Interface Workshop

4. Unsupervised Learning to Unravel Differential Cell Fate Outcomes

   17 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Kristen Naegle

   Cells are constantly receiving cues from the outside world and responding to them by altering their physiological fate by transducing this signal via intracellular biochemical networks. An important mechanism that many cell networks utilize to transduce these signals is the regulation of protein...

5. DNA Origami Visualization Tools

   12 Sep 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jessica Nash

   Visualize DNA origami designs

6. Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-nanotechnology

   09 Jan 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Samantha Andrews, NNCI Nano

   This lesson explores the ethical concerns related to bio-nanotechnology. Bio-nanotechnology is the application of nanotechnology to living things. This ranges from the creation of pharmaceuticals to medical devices. While scientists have created many life-saving treatments ethical concerns,...

7. Tracking the Maturation of Organelles and Signaling Cluster with Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy

   09 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Elias M. Puchner

   Quantitative Super-Resolution Microscopy is evolving into a powerful technique to study biological processes below the optical diffraction limit. However, a deeper understanding of the biological structures under investigation is often limited by the inability to quantify their molecular...

8. Characterizing Noise in a Mathematical Model of the Adipogenic Transcriptional Network

   09 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Alexandra Jilkine

   For each model, we first characterized overall susceptibility to noise by calculating the relative local sensitivity of AdipoQ and fat to various parameters. We then simulated the experiment done by Loo et al. with 30% added noise to determine if our system could replicate their data. Our results...

9. Demo of Loading and Visualizing Proteins from the RCSB Protein Data Bank

   14 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Martin Hunt

   Demo of Loading and Visualizing Proteins from the RCSB Protein Data Bank

10. Population Density Modulates Antibiotic Efficacy, Treatment Bistability, and the Evolution of Resistance in Bacteria

    09 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Kevin Wood

    In this talk, I will discuss our recent work to address these questions by measuring real-time per capita growth of Enterococcus faecalis populations at fixed population densities using multiplexed computer-automated culture devices. We show that density-dependent growth inhibition is pervasive...

11. Atomic Resolution Brownian Dynamics

    09 Nov 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Chris Maffeo

    GPU-accelerated Brownian dynamics simulation tool for biomolecular and nanotechnological systems

12. Tissue-Level Communication Through Patterning Of Intercellular Ca2+ Wave Dynamics

    21 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...

13. Decoding the Epigenetic Language of Life

    15 Nov 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jian-Kang Zhu

    I will describe work in my lab that has shed light on how DNA methyltransferases and demethylases are guided to specific sequences, and how the antagonistic actions of the enzymes are coordinated to generate proper DNA methylation patterns. I will also describe some of our recent work on how DNA...

14. Coarse Graining of Crystalline Cellulose

    29 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Kuo Tian, Mehdi Shishehbor, Pablo Daniel Zavattieri

    Bio-inspired Crystalline Nano-Cellulose coarse graining toolkit

15. 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...

16. 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...

17. ENBIOS-2D Lab

    18 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Aldi Hoxha, Paolo Scarbolo, Andrea Cossettini, Federico Pittino, Luca Selmi

    A tool to simulate Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors in two dimensions

18. Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells

    21 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...

19. Hydrogel based Biochemical Sensors

    01 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Piyush Dak, Muhammad A. Alam

    This is MATLAB code for a Hydrogel based biochemical sensor:  The sensor is composed of a hydrogel sandwiched between a rigid porous membrane and a deformable membrane.  The hydrogel is pendent with the ionizable groups (with density, Nf and acid dissociation constant, Ka) which are...

20. Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM) for Studying the Invasiveness of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Cells

    08 Jul 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Lydia Kwon

    Bionanotechnology Seminar Series