Integrated Plasmonic Biosensors: from Critical Care Medicine to Airborne Virus Monitoring Katsuo Kurabayashi, PhDProfessor, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor Abstract:Nanoparticle-based plasmonic biosensors are label-free, robust, rapid, cost-effective, and easy to integrate into miniaturized fluidic microsystems. These advantageous features make plasmonic biosensors promising candidates for point-of-care testing (POCT) of...

Vasculature-on-chip models for studying metastasis and the tumor microenvironment Sarah Shelton, PhDPostdoctoral Research FellowMassachusetts Institute of Technology and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Microphysiological systems or “organ-on-chip” devices are three-dimensional models of simplified biological tissue that have greatly expanded the types of experiments and hypotheses that can be explored in vitro in recent years. My work focuses...

Engineering cell/ECM interactions in lung disease Patrick Link, PhDPostdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of Physiology and Biomedical EngineeringMayo Clinic Abstract:Cell characteristics are regulated through a variety of mechanisms, such as cytokines, the mechanical environment, or epigenetics. In lung diseases, abnormal regulation of multiple mechanisms combine to determine a shift from a healthy state toward a disease state....