C200 Scholar Winners
Submitted by Jason June on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 1:53pmCongratulations to Tiffany Reagan on being awarded a Linda Hudson Scholarship by the Committee of 200 (C200).
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Tiffany Reagan awarded a scholarship
Submitted by Mark Sheplak on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:34pmCongratulations to Tiffany Reagan on being awarded a Linda Judson Scholarship by the Committee of 200 (C200).
Dissertation Defense: Patrick Lomenzo
Submitted by Toshikazu Nishida on Mon, 02/22/2016 - 2:25pmEvent date:
Fri, 02/26/2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Patrick Lomenzo will defend his dissertation titled "Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Properties of HfO2-Based Thin Films" at 1:00 pm on Friday, February 26 in NRF 115. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Proposal Defense: Camilo Velez
Submitted by Camilo Vélez Cuervo on Wed, 12/09/2015 - 12:15pmEvent date:
Fri, 12/11/2015 - 8:00pm to 9:00pm
Camilo Velez will defend his proposal entitled "A Selective Magnetization Process For Batch-patterning Magnetic Materials" at 3:00 PM on Friday, December 11th, in NRF 115.
Proposal Defense: Rob Carroll
Submitted by Camilo Vélez Cuervo on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 12:21pmEvent date:
Mon, 12/07/2015 - 8:00pm
Rob Carroll will defend his proposal entitled "A microfabricated magneto-mechanical oscillator array testbed device for the study of wave propagation behaviors in nonlinearly coupled periodic structures" at 3:00 PM on Monday, December 7th, in Larsen 234.
Multifunctional Smart Mouthguard Platform for Health Monitoring and Intervention for the Internet of Things
Submitted by Justin Kiehne on Tue, 12/01/2015 - 12:00pmEvent date:
Fri, 12/04/2015 - 4:45pm to 6:00pm
Our Fall seminar series comes to a close this Friday, December 4 with Justin Correll defending his proposal entitled Multifunctional Smart Mouthguard Platform for Health Monitoring and Intervention for the Internet of Things. He will be presenting in Larsen 234 and pizza, snacks, and drinks will be provided for $3 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.(http://www.img.ufl.edu/wiki/index.php/IMG_Seminar_Series:_Fall_2015#Food...)
Multifunctional Smart Mouthguard Platform for Health Monitoring and Intervention for the Internet of Things
UF Team Wins 2nd Place at Global Youth Innovation Festival 2015
Submitted by Todd Schumann on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 11:31amThe UF Smart Mouthguard team won 2nd place in the International Contest of Global Youth Innovation Festival 2015.
The Global Youth Innovation Festival is an international competition for college students to promote the innovative spirits of youth, to construct collaboration platforms, and to increase applications. More than 120 teams participated in the contest and 12 finalist teams from 6 countries were invited to the finals held in Beijing, CN, October 25, 2015. The UF team represented the USA and won 2nd place out of the 12 finalist teams.
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The UF team included:
Students: Justin Correll (ECE, Undergrad), Todd Schumann (ECE, Graduate), Sheng-Po Fang (ECE, Graduate)
Advisors: YK Yoon (ECE), Fong Wong (Dentistry)
IMG Seminar Series: "Using microfluidics for detecting cancer cells in blood" and "Simulation of the interactions between cancer cells and microfluidic devices"
Submitted by Justin Kiehne on Tue, 11/10/2015 - 5:40pmEvent date:
Fri, 11/13/2015 - 4:45pm to 6:00pm
Jinling Zhang and Kangfu Chen will present on topics related to their research. Food will be provided for $4 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.
Using microfluidics for detecting cancer cells in blood
Jinling Zhang
Isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood of cancer patients are potentially useful for detection, characterization, and monitoring of the disease and its subsequent treatment. We have developed microfluidic devices that are capable of efficiently isolating cancer cells from whole blood. The cell capture efficiency is about 90%. The method provides a convenient and cost-efficient alternative for CTCs isolation in clinic samples.
Simulation of the interactions between cancer cells and microfluidic devices
Kangfu Chen
Our interest is to explore the interaction between cancer cell and aptamer functionalized micropost based microfluidic device. We shows the distribution of captured cancer cells around different shaped microposts experimentally. As a comparison of the experiments, a theoretical model was set up. COMSOL was used to show the laminar flow in the microchannel of the device. Based on the flow data, we describe the motion of cancer cells in the micropost patterned microchannel. The interaction between cancer cells and micropost surface was simulated based on adhesive dynamics. Finally, we compare the simulation results with the experimental results.
IMG Seminar Series: "Designing Hybrid Microstructures for Wicking Applications" and "Magnetic Assembly and Cross Linking of Nanoparticles for Releasable Magnetic Microstructures"
Submitted by Justin Kiehne on Tue, 10/27/2015 - 3:50pmEvent date:
Fri, 10/30/2015 - 3:45pm to 5:00pm
Saitej Ravi and Camilo Velez will present on topics related to their research, "Designing hybrid microstructures for wicking applications" and "Magnetic Assemblies and Cross-Linking of Nanoparticles for Releasable Magnetic Microstructures." Food will be provided for $3 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.
Dissertation Defense - Chip Patterson
Submitted by William Patterson on Thu, 10/22/2015 - 2:08pmEvent date:
Fri, 10/23/2015 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Chip Patterson will be defending his dissertation titled "Of Magnetic Imaging System Experiments and Micro Electro-mechanical Systems “Of MISE and MEMS”" on Friday October 23rd at 11:30AM in Larsen 234 . Sandwiches, snacks and refreshmants will be provided.