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BE Seminar: Next Generation Orthobiologics: Advanced Growth Factor and Biomaterials Engineering

Class of 62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA

The standard of care for augmenting surgical bone repair or regeneration remains bone graft harvested from the patient despite a lack of sufficient quantity or quality of graft in many clinical cases.  Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) therapeutics have been successfully developed and commercially marketed as substitutes for bone graft.  Although the clinical success of BMP, […]

MEAM Seminar: “A Multi-Scale Homogenization Model for the Viscoplastic Response of Polar and Sea Ice”

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The rheology of polar ice evolves in response to weather and climate changes, by modifying its microstructure. While the experimental evidence for the dependence of rheological properties on the microstructure is well documented, there are only a few modeling efforts to capture the rheological behavior of polar ice, mostly by fitting continuum models to the […]

MEAM Seminar: “Microscale Robotic Wetware for Synthetic Biology”

Moore 216 200 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Small-scale robotic systems have emerged as promising tools to perform a wide-range of tasks in microbiology and medicine such as targeted delivery, cell manipulation, environmental monitoring, and microassembly. In order to perform these tasks, the robot must execute precise locomotion, take measurements from its environment, and use those measurements to make decisions. However, unlike their […]

MEAM Seminar: “From Elder Care Service Robots to the Design of Low-Cost End-Effectors and Novel Manipulation Techniques”

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

Older adults are forming a much larger percentage of the population leading to a strain in the healthcare sector. It is expected that the population aged 65 and over in the United States alone will double in the next 30 years, and similarly worldwide. Despite abundance of the facilities to accommodate the growing older adult […]

MEAM Seminar: “Mechanical Models for DNA”

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

We will discuss two complementary mechanical models for DNA that deal with, respectively two problems: one, phase transitions in a DNA molecule, and two, allosteric interactions between two ligands bound to DNA. Experimental studies on single molecules of DNA have reported a rich variety of cooperative structural transitions, including coexistence of three phases, when a […]