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Developing CUREs for Antibody Engineering
Online Presentations | 22 Jan 2024 | Contributor(s):: Sandra Porter, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Exploring Biotechnology Careers
Online Presentations | 04 Jan 2024 | Contributor(s):: Todd Smith, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Cell Factory for Small Molecule Inducible Delivery of Low Dose IL-2
Online Presentations | 31 Aug 2023 | Contributor(s):: Celsa Pachlhofer, Yafet Arefeayne, Rice University
Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are characterized by insufficient regulatory T cells (Treg), which play a central role in maintaining peripheral tolerance, preventing autoimmunity, and limiting chronic inflammation. Treg cells depend on IL-2 for survival and maintenance of their...
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DNA Automation with Nano-Structured Ceramics
Online Presentations | 03 Jan 2023 | Contributor(s):: NACK Network
We will discuss how the use of nano-structured ceramic films enables the synthesis of hundreds of DNA genes in gram quantities overnight. Furthermore, we will describe how these nano-structured ceramics can be manufactured without the use of expensive, currently highly backlogged, nanofabs...
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Confocal Microscopy
Online Presentations | 12 Oct 2022 | Contributor(s):: Fatma Pri-Cakmak, NACK Network
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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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Virtual Tissue Computer Simulation of Development, Homeostasis and Disease using CompuCell3D
Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2022 | Contributor(s):: James A Glazier, Trinity Chung, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Nanotechnology: The Future of Medicine?
Online Presentations | 28 Jul 2022 | Contributor(s):: Jared Ashcroft, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Antibody Engineers - Antibody Hackathon
Online Presentations | 15 Jul 2022 | Contributor(s):: Sandra Porter, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery, Controlled Release and Targeted Therapy
Online Presentations | 17 Jun 2022 | Contributor(s):: Neda Habibi, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
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Designing Machine Learning Surrogates for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Online Presentations | 25 Nov 2021 | Contributor(s):: JCS Kadupitiya
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations accelerated by high-performance computing (HPC) methods are powerful tools for investigating and extracting the microscopic mechanisms characterizing the properties of soft materials such as self-assembled nanoparticles, virus capsids, confined electrolytes,...
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Agent Based Active Matter Simulations with Mechanica
Online Presentations | 14 Nov 2021 | Contributor(s):: Somogyi, Andy T
Mechanica is an interactive mesh-free, chemistry and biology simulation environment, with an emphasis towards enabling users to model and simulate complex sub-cellular and cellular biological physics problems. Mechanica is designed first and foremost to enable users to work interactively...
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Fun Experiments You Can Only Do With Frogs
Online Presentations | 08 Jul 2021 | Contributor(s):: Rebecca W. Heald
Our studies aim to reveal underlying principles of spindle assembly and biological size control, as well as the molecular basis of variation that contributes to genomic instability and evolution. This talk will focus on the nano-scale aspects and include some single molecule experiments our lab...
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Deep Learning for Time Series Illustrated by COVID-19 Infection Studies
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: Geoffrey C. Fox
We show that one can study several sets of sequences or time-series in terms of an underlying evolution operator which can be learned with a deep learning network.
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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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Shape-changing Nanoparticles for Nanomedicine Applications
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: Vikram Jadhao
I will describe the nanoHUB tool “Nanoparticle Shape Lab” that enables simulations of the shape deformation of charged nanoparticles for a broad variety of nanoparticle material properties including nanoparticle surface charge, pattern, elasticity and solution conditions such...
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Biology of COVID-19 Attack on Epithelial Cells, understood from a Modeling and Simulation Perspective
Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: Paul Macklin
n this session, we describe a community-driven effort to iteratively develop a multiscale, spatially-resolved open source model of SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and immune response in tissues.
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U-Net Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Segmentation: Application to Scanning Electron Microscopy Images of Graphene
Online Presentations | 01 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s):: Aagam Rajeev Shah
This tutorial introduces you to U-Net, a popular convolutional neural network commonly developed for image segmentation in biomedicine. Using an assembled data set, you will learn how to create and train a U-Net neural network, and apply it to segment scanning electron microscopy images of...
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Saliva-Based Testing for COVID-19
Online Presentations | 22 Nov 2020 | Contributor(s):: Mohit Verma
The Verma lab is developing a molecular test for SARS-CoV-2 that detects the RNA and produces a color change in less than one hour. Using saliva as the sample, this test is easier to use at the point-of-care.