Kangfu Chen will defend his proposal entitled "Flow and Interaction Patterns Between Tumor Cells and Microfabricated Structures" at 9:15 am on Thursday, April 27th in MAE-A 221. Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Z. Hugh Fan from the Interdisciplinary Microsystem Group (IMG) was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow for 2016. He's among the 5 newly named 2016 AAAS Fellows at the University of Florida. Dr. Fan was awarded for his distinguished establishment in Microfluidics, particularly for platform development and biomedical applications. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!
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Congratulations to Jose Varillas for winning the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) TL1 Fellowship, 2016-2017. His proposed research is titled Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells for Monitoring Cancer Treatment Response.
Jose Ignacio Varillas will defend his proposal entitled "Enumeration, Characterization, and Clinical Usage of Circulating Tumor Cells" at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, July 19th, in BMS J35. Refreshments will be provided.
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.
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.