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Engineer and Manufacture Off-the-Shelf CAR-Natural Killer Cells for Targeted
Online Presentations | 07 Oct 2022 | Contributor(s):: Xiaoping Bao
Cancer is a major threat for humans worldwide, with over 18 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer-related deaths in 2018. Although most common cancer treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, unsatisfactory cure rates require new therapeutic approaches, particularly for...
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Nanophotonics for Global Health
Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2022 | Contributor(s):: Lisa V. Poulikakos, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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How Simple Cell-Cell Interactions Lead to Complex Multicellular Dynamics
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: Paul Macklin
In this talk, we use agent-based simulation models to simulate (1) individual cell behaviors, (2) cell-cell interactions, and (3) cell-environment interactions to show how simple rules can give rise to complex multicellular phenomena. We showcase and explore free, interactive online tools to...
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Cancer Games: Interactive Simulation of the Effect of Resource Limitation on Cancer Somatic Evolution using nanoHUB CompuCell3D
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: James A Glazier
In this interactive mini-workshop we will use a very simple model of cancer somatic evolution and resource limitation based on one originally proposed by Heiko Enderling.
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Genomic Cancer Medicine Is the Future Now?
Online Presentations | 11 May 2020 | Contributor(s):: Daniela Matei, Susan Gubar
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Creating Informatics-Enabled Learning Health Systems: Now, it’s Personal!
Online Presentations | 11 May 2020 | Contributor(s):: Peter J. Embí
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Birck Science Communication Shark Tank Compititon 2018
Online Presentations | 17 Jan 2019
The Science Communication Shark Tank competition and workshop gives students a chance to learn and train master storyteller skills in the best possible way: by playing a real-life game.
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Pulsed Power as an Enabling Technology for Cellular Manipulation and Cancer Treatment
Online Presentations | 02 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Allen Garner
Ongoing research explores the application of pulsed power for biomedical applications, including athermal sterilization of milk, water, and juices, cancer treatment, permeabilization of cells and tissues for drug delivery, and even wound healing. This lecture will provide a general overview...
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The Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Its role in metastasis? Can Theory Help Cancer Biology?
Online Presentations | 19 Oct 2016 | Contributor(s):: Herbert Levine
In order to spread from the primary tumor to distant sites, cancer cells must undergo a coordinated change in their phenotypic properties referred to as the "epithelial-to-mesenchymal" transition. We have studied the nonlinear genetic circuits that are responsible for this...
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[Illinois] Chemical and Biological Detection for Diagnostic, Food Safety, and Drug Safety using the Internal Sensing Capabilities of Mobile Devices
Online Presentations | 20 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s):: Brian Cunningham
The overall objective of the 2015 BioNanotechnology Summer Institute is to enhance the ability to address challenges in Cancer Nanotechnology and Mechanobiology, offering expertise from interdisciplinary faculty in biology, engineering, materials science, and nanotechnology, through a combination...
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Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, Random Access Memory, & Cancer Treatment
Online Presentations | 18 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Beth Stadler
This talk will reveal synthesis secrets for nm-control of layer thicknesses, even for difficult alloys, which has enabled studies of magnetization reversal, magneto-elasticity, giant magnetoresistance, and spin transfer torqueswitching. These nanowires will mitigate the ITRS Roadmap’s...
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[Illinois] Nanotechnology meets Biology in the Cancer Cell: Applications in Medicine, Drug Delivery, and Determining Drug Efficacy
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Mostafa El-Sayed
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[Illinois] Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Claire Mcghee
We aim to further improve early detection of cancer biomarkers, including metal ion and small molecules, using functional DNA as the selective component for photonic crystal surface enhanced Raman scattering (PC-SERS) based detection. It is known that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) display SERS...
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[Illinois] Integration of Quantum Dot Nanoparticles with Multimodal Microspheres for PET and Cerenkov Luminescene Imaging of Cancer
Online Presentations | 18 Aug 2015 | Contributor(s):: Joanne Li
Cerenkov luminescence (CL) imaging utilizes the photons emitted during radioactive decay when charged particles travel faster than the phase velocity of light in a dielectric medium. In this talk, I will present a novel agent to convert and increase CL emission at longer wavelengths using...
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[Illinois] Extracellular Matrix Remodeling during Cancer Progression and Metastasis
Online Presentations | 09 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s):: Manu Platt
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[Illinois] Gold Nanostars as Tiny Hitchhikers for Cancer Therapeutics
Online Presentations | 01 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s):: Teri Odom
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[Illinois] Cancer Basics
Online Presentations | 01 Aug 2014 | Contributor(s):: Ann Nardulli
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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 25: Force Traction Microscopy: A Review
Online Presentations | 12 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Alireza Tofangchi
BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated....
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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 24: Link Between Mechanics and Cell Behavior
Online Presentations | 12 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Taher A. Saif
BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated....
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[Illinois] BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology Lecture 26: A few basics of mechanics in light of cell biology
Online Presentations | 12 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Taher A. Saif
BioNanotechnology and Nanomedicine: Applications in Cancer and Mechanobiology provides an introduction to basic concepts of nanotechnology in mechanobiology and in cancer. This is a highly interdisciplinary field of research where knowledge from various disciplines is presented and integrated....