News and events of Z. Hugh Fan's Research Group

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IMG Members from Dr. Z. Hugh Fan’s Group Present Research at MicroTAS 2019

IMG faculty member, Dr. Z. Hugh Fan, saw his group make a big showing at the MicroTAS 2019 Conference in Basel, Switzerland! His students Pablo Dopico, Carlos Manzanas, and Karim Yousry are presenting their work there this week. Nice job!

Check out the conference here: https://www.microtas2019.org/

Dr. Fan's group Open House

Event date: 
Fri, 10/18/2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm

Dr. Fan’s group will have an open house this Friday 10/18 (tomorrow) at 11:00 AM in the Microfluidics lab (Benton 237E). For those who have join IMG recently, the open house is an invitation to everyone in IMG to learn about the research, the projects, and the equipment of an IMG group. Some demos will be set up in the lab, and we will be showing some of our projects:
 

- Pablo, Minh-Chau & Zac: Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs): explanation on how to run a device for CTCs capture, and visualization of the cells under the microscope.

IMG Member Kartik Sondhi Accepted In IDTechEx Show and Publishes New Paper!

Longtime IMG member, Kartik Sondhi, is celebrating his recent paper titled “Characterization of Bending, Crease, Aging, and Immersion Effects on Flexible Screen-Printed Silver Traces” published in IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology! He has also been accepted to the IDTechEx Show in Santa Clara this coming November! Congratulations!

His paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8851266

IMG Seminar: Dr. Chelsea Simmons and Jacob Amontree

Event date: 
Fri, 11/09/2018 - 11:45am to 12:45pm

This week, the speakers for the IMG Seminar are:

  • Dr. Chelsea Simmons on Cells as Microsystems
  • Jacob Amontree (Dr. Fan's group) on Capillary Force Driven Single-Cell Spiking Apparatus for Studying Circulating Tumor Cell

Cells as Microsystems. Successful integration of MEMS with biomedicine requires an intimate understanding of biophysiological processes. Dr. Simmons will describe tools at the micro and mesoscale she uses to study these processes, including cells themselves! Specific applications in cancer and regeneration will be highlighted. 

Capillary Force Driven Single-Cell Spiking Apparatus for Studying Circulating Tumor Cell. The characterization of single cells within heterogeneous populations has great impact on both biomedical sciences and cancer research. By investigating cellular compositions on a broad scale, pertinent outliers may be lost in the sample set. Alternatively, an investigation focused on the behavior of specific cells, such as circulating tumor cells (CTCs), will reveal genetic biomarkers or phenotypic characteristics associated with cancer and metastasis. On average, CTC concentration in peripheral blood is extremely low, as few as one to two per billion of healthy blood cells. Consequently, the critical element lacking in many methods of CTC detection is accurate cell capture efficiency at low concentrations. To simulate CTC isolation, researchers usually spike small amounts of tumor cells to healthy blood for separation. However, spiking tumor cells at extremely low concentrations is challenging in a standard laboratory setting. We report our study on an innovative apparatus and method designed for low-cost, precise, and replicable single-cell spiking (SCS).