Research Projects

Academic Year 2013-2014

A Biomimetic Membrane System to Dissect the Role of TNF-α in Inflammatory Disease [pdf]

  • Rebecca Bader (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Martin B. Forstner (Department of Physics)

How Cells Deal with (Mechanical) Stress [pdf]

  • Jay Henderson (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Martin B. Forstner (Department of Physics)

How do cells move in response to mechanical changes in their environment and interactions with other cells? [pdf]

  • Jay Henderson (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Lisa Manning (Department of Physics)
  • Cristina Marchetti (Department of Physics)

Utilization of Smart Materials and Predictive Modeling to Integrate Intracellular Dynamics with Cell Biomechanics and Collective Tissue Behavior [pdf]

  • Jay Henderson (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Lisa Manning (Department of Physics)
  • Chris Turner (Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY Upstate Medical University)

Gradients Smart Materials (GradSmarts) [pdf]

  • Jay Henderson (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Patrick Mather (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)
  • Mark Bowick (Department of Physics)

Interplay between tissue mechanics and biochemical signaling during spinal cord development [pdf]

  • Kate Lewis (Department of Biology)
  • Lisa Manning (Department of Physics)

Single-molecule detection of biomolecules using engineered nanopores [pdf]

  • Liviu Movileanu (Department of Physics)
  • Phillip Borer (Department of Chemistry)

Combined influence of topography and co-culture on cellular behavior [pdf]

  • Pranav Soman (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)

Influence of negative Poisson’s ratio (Auxetics) on cell behavior [pdf]

  • Pranav Soman (Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering)

Academic Year 2012-2013