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IMG Seminar: Spatially Controlled Electrospun Solid Gradient Aligned Nanofiber Tissue Scaffold for Guided Spiral Ganglion Neuron Culture

Submitted by John Griffin on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 10:27am
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Wed, 09/15/2010 - 7:00pm to 7:30pm

Speaker: PitFee Jao

The direction of cell growth is associated with chemical, structural and/or mechanical properties of the substrate. Structurally, electrospun nanofibers provide a suitable environment for cell attachment and proliferation due to their similar physical dimension to that of the extracellular matrix. Furthermore, by modulating the topographical features of nanofibers, which include fiber diameter and orientation, cell growth and its related functions can be modified. Here, we demonstrate a solid gradient scaffold for directional growth of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs).

IMG Welcomes New Faculty Member, YK Yoon

Submitted by PitFee Jao on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 2:40pm

IMG welcomes Professor YK Yoon as new faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Yoon joins IMG from the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York. He has achieved numerous awards for excellence including the NSF CAREER Award and the UB's Exceptional Scholar Young Investigator Award. His research interests include MEMS and nanotechnology, RF/Microwave, millimeter wave and terahertz system, Micro/nano-biomedical devices and bio molecule (drug/vaccine/gene) delivery, µ-TAS, lab-on-a-chip, wireless/wired sensors and actuators and Metamaterial and its RF application. Prof. Yoon is also the Director of the Multidisplinary Nano and Microsystems Laboratory at UF.