BE Seminar: “Microfluidics and Immuno-Materials for Organs-on-a-Chip”

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This presentation will describe microfluidic technologies to conveniently produce life-like pulsatile flows along with applications to study of lung injury, enhancement of in vitro fertilization, and analysis of frequency-dependent cellular […]

MEAM Seminar: “Force, Shape, and Motion in Collective Cell Migration”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Cells migrate collectively to form tissues, to heal wounds, and, in cancer, to metastasize. During these biological processes, the collective migration exhibits a transition from a solid-like state, wherein cell […]

BE Seminar Series: Applied Topology in Biological Systems

Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Though rooted in pure mathematics, algebraic topology has recently enabled novel analysis techniques for biological data. Specifically, the method called persistent homology which employs ideas from topology to characterize the […]

MEAM Seminar: “Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Material properties are governed by the chemical composition and spatial arrangement of constituent elements. Over the past decade, the field of architected materials has sought to design, fabricate, and demonstrate […]