LSU ECE Seminar Announcement and Schedule

         On Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 11:30 - 12:30,                   
         in Room 1110 P.F. Taylor Hall:                                
                                                                       
         MEMS technologies for mechanical characterization of adherent 
                                     cells                             
                                                                       
                                  Kidong Park                          
                   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign          
                                                                       
         Abstract--MEMS (micro electromechanical system) is a highly   
         miniaturized electromechanical device with a typical dimension
         varying from a few to a few hundred µm. Due to its high level
         of precision and parallelism, MEMS has been actively studied  
         as a breakthrough solution in life science and medicine. In   
         the field of mechanobiology, MEMS technologies have been      
         widely used to characterize fundamental mechanical properties 
         of cells to elucidate dynamic and complex interactions between
         the cell mechanics and the cellular processes. This talk will 
         focus on MEMS-based approaches for the mechanical             
         characterization of adherent cells. A unique MEMS mass sensor 
         with a spatially uniform mass sensitivity was developed and   
         used to measure the mass, the growth rate, and the stiffness  
         of the target cells on a single cell level.                   
                                                                       
         Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 11:30 - 12:30                       
         Room 1110 P.F. Taylor Hall                                    
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