Laboratory and Lecture Session Schedule

The morning lectures will be held in 2005 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, 105 S. Mathews Street, Urbana, Illinois.

Nanofabrication Sessions will be held in Room 1000, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.

Cell Culture Sessions will be held in the Micro and Cellular Mechanics Laboratory (2210 Mechanical Engineering Lab), Bioengineering Lab (DCL), BioPhysics Labs (at Physics Dept, loomis Lab).

Monday, July 30, 2007

7:30-8    Continental Breakfast

8-12    Basics of mechanics, thermodynamics, and micro fabrication

Moderator:  Taher Saif  (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)

Ilesanmi Adesida, Dean , College of Engineering, UIUC, welcoming remarks

Taher Saif  (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC) (link to the lecture's web page)
A few basics of mechanics in light of cell biology (abstract)

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Jonathan Freund (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)
A few basics of thermodynamics in light of cell mechanics (abstract)

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Brian Cunningham (Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC)
Micro and Nanofabricaton Methods for Circuits, Sensors, and Actuators (abstract)

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12-1 Lunch

1-5   Laboratory sessions (Overview of laboratory experiments and procedures, cell plating on different stiffness substrates and observation (evening))

 

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

7:30-8    Continental Breakfast

8-12    Basics of Physiology, cell structure, and intracellular forces

Moderator:  Amy Johnson (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)

Marni Boppart (kinesiology & community health, UIUC)
Basics of Extracellular Matrix Composition and Exercise-Induced Changes in Skeletal Muscle ECM and Linkage Proteins (abstract)

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Ning Wang (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)
Mechanism of Mechanotransduction: Central Role of Cytoskeletal Prestress (abstract)

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Deborah Leckband (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC)
Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Adhesion (abstract)

12-1 Lunch

Moderator: Irfan Ahmad (CNST)

John Huges (Micro and Nanotechnology lab, CNST, UIUC)

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1-5   Laboratory sessions (cell transfection, optical lithography)

 

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

7:30-8    Continental Breakfast

8-12    Cell mechano-sensitivity: effects of mechanical environment on cell functionality

Moderator: Iwona Jasiuk (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)

Akira Chiba (Department of Biology, University of Miami)
Watching molecules drive a neuron go crazy, and forcing the brain to store memory (abstract)

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Cheng Zhu (Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Catch bonds: structural bases, physical models, and biological Relevance (abstract)

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Dennis Discher (Molecular & Cell Biophysics  and  NanoBio-Polymers Lab, University of Pennsylvania)
Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage specification (abstract)

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12-1 Lunch

1-5 Laboratory sessions (cell fixing and staining, thin film deposition and etching, making cantilevers for nano scale force sensing)

 

Thursday, August 2, 2007

7:30-8    Continental Breakfast

8-12    Molecular basis of cell mechano sensitivity: multiscale theoretical and experimental approaches 

Moderator:  Taher Saif  (Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC)

 

Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Active elasticity of cells in gels (abstract)

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Klaus Schulten (Physics, UIUC)
Life under Tension (abstract)

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Michael Sheetz (Biological Sciences, Columbia University)
Understanding Cellular Mechanics Through Nanotechnology (abstract)

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12-1 Lunch

1-5 Laboratory sessions (cell-probe interaction, exploring cell-substrate (with different stiffness) interaction, micro fluidics, application of photonic devices)

 

Friday, August 3, 2007

7:30-8    Continental Breakfast

8-12    Intracellular transport, molecular motor dynamics and visualization

 

Moderator:  Bruce Wheeler (Bioengineering, UIUC)

 

Paul Selvin (Physics, UIUC)
Single Molecule Measurements of Motor Proteins, In vitro and In vivo (abstract)

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Vladimir Gelfand (Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University)
Organelle transport in a living cell:  Moving on moving tracks (abstract)

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Peter Wang (Bioengineering, UIUC)
Live-Cell Imaging of Signaling Transduction in MechanoBiology (abstract)

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12-1 Lunch

1-5 Laboratory sessions (total internal reflection microscopy (TIR), visualization of motor proteins on molecular tracks, molecular diffusion on membranes)