[UCI-Calit2] Reminder: Seminar on Tuesday -- Cell Mechanics and Bioinformatics

[Stuart Ross]

SEMINAR SERIES

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology

 

Cell Mechanic Bioinformatics Platforms

 

William C. Tang, Professor

Biomedical Engineering

 

Tuesday, July 6       Calit2 Building, Room 3008

A light lunch will be available at 11:45 AM; the seminar will begin at
12:00.

 

Cell mechanic bioinformatics involve quantifying cellular mechanical
behaviors as a way to extract physiologically-relevant  information
about how cells go through normal physiological changes or become
infected or even cancerous.  It could provide powerful insights with
strong clinical implications when the information is harvested and
correctly interpreted.  This project aims at developing the microfluidic
platforms that allow this information extraction through mechanical
interaction with the cells under test.  This is part of a biomedical
engineering research effort to investigate cell biomechanics and the
related clinical uses.  The project includes design, modeling,
simulation, fabrication, and testing of novel microfluidic platforms and
the use of the platforms in cell mechanics experiments. 

 

William Tang is Acting Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
and Associate Dean for Research in the school of engineering. His
research work also includes such topics as optical coherence tomography
and strain measurements in bones.  

He is mentoring SURF-IT Fellow Johnway Yih, a biomedical engineering
major.

SURF-IT is cosponsored by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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