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.
Kirsten Jackson will defend her dissertation entitled "Design and Fabrication of Miniaturized Continuous-Exchange and Continuous-Flow Systems for Cell-Free Protein Synthesis" at 10:00 am on Thursday, June 25 in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Shancy Augustine will defend her dissertation titled "Development of low power fluidic control techniques for Lab-on-a-chip devices" at 3:00 pm on Friday, November 21 in NRF 115. Refreshments will be provided.
We will hold an IMG Kickoff meeting on Friday August 22nd in Larsen 310, starting at 1 pm, immediately after our Friday BBQ. This meeting is mandatory for all IMG personnel. We will provide an overview of IMG to new students, review lab organization/training, emphasize importance of the wiki, and review safety information.
Shancy Augustine will defend her dissertation proposal, entitled "Low Power Fluidic Control Techniques for Lab-on-a-Chip Plastic Devices" at 10:00am on Thursday, June 13th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
At this week's IMG seminar, Benjamin George will give a talk to outline the initial steps in using flow control to improve the aero-optic performance of flow behind a three dimensional turret. Kiri Hamaker will speak on the topic of detection of nicotine metabolites for second hand smoke using micellar electrokinetic chromatography.
On Friday, March 25th, some IMG undergraduates will present their work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Reitz Grand Ballroom. Two poster sessions are scheduled for 9-11am and 3-5pm, with oral presentations 1-3pm. The presentation schedule is attached; please come out and show your support for the IMG undergraduates!