2009 GEM4 Summer School - MechSE

Complete List of Instructors

Gang Bao (GaTech) — Review of Cellular Imaging Techniques
Rashid Bashir (Illinois) — Electro-mechanical Sensing of Biomolecules and Cells on a Chip
Markus Buehler (MIT) — Catastrophic failure of biological protein materials in disease; Fundamentals of molecular dynamics and computational molecular nanomechanics.
Thomas Daniel (U Washington) — Computational methods for understanding the dynamics of many interacting motor molecules in muscles
Martha Gillette (Illinois) — Microfluidic systems in neurobiology
Taekjip Ha (Illinois) — Next generation single molecule fluorescence technologies
Jimmy Hsia (Illinois) — Basics of mechanics in connection with biological systems
Daniel Irimia (Harvard Medical School) — Probing Cellular Motility using Microfluidic Tools
Paul Janmey (U Penn) — New Soft Materials for Wound Repair and Tissue Engineering
Raghu Kalluri (Harvard Medical School) — Mechanics and Bioengineering of Basement Membranes and Extracellular Matrix
Roger Kamm (MIT) — Models and Experiments in Cytoskeletal Mechanics
Deborah Leckband (Illinois) — Mechanotransduction at cell-cell contacts
CT Lim (National U of Singapore) — Mechanics insights into the pathophysiology of human disease; Microfluidics approaches to studying human diseases
Paul Matsudaira (National U of Singapore) — Migration of epithelial cells

Beth Pruitt (Stanford U) — Small Scale Biomechanics Measurements
Taher Saif (Illinois) — Seeing the Unseen: the Force Story of a Cancer Cell
Geert Schmid-Schonbein (UC - San Diego) — Inflammation in Human Disease and the Autodigestion Hypothesis
Jean Schwarzbauer (Princeton U) — Deciphering mechanical and chemical signals in the extracellular matrix
Paul Selvin (Illinois) — FIONA: Super-'Resolution' Microscopy
Michael Sheetz (Columbia U) — Intracellular Force Transduction
Scott Siechen (Illinois) — Brief Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology
Joachim Spatz (Max Planck Inst) — Engineering Digital Surfaces for Programming Cell Responses
Mehmet Toner (Harvard Medical School) — Moving cells on chips, microfluidics, and clinical medicine
Krystyn Van Vliet (MIT) — Effects of mechanical stiffness and applied force on ligand-receptor binding kinetics at the cell-material interface
Fei Wang (Illinois) — The Chemical and Mechanical Signals Driving Neutrophil Polarity and Chemotaxis
Ning Wang (Illinois)
Denis Wirtz (Johns Hopkins U) — Cell microrheology: fundamentals and applications
Takami Yamaguchi (Tohoku U) — Fundamental Problems of Computational Biomechanics of Cardiovascular Flow
Muhammad Zaman (UT-Austin) — Statistical mechanics of cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesions; Multi-scale approaches to study cellular adhesions