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SUMMARY:Microrobotic Platforms in Bioengineering and Translational Medicin
 e
DTSTART:20150327T140000
DTEND:20150327T150000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mahmut Selman Sakar\, ETHZ\nBio : Mahmut Selman Sakar rece
 ived the B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with honors from B
 ogazici University in 2005 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Enginee
 ring from University of Pennsylvania in 2010. During his doctoral studies\
 , he worked on microrobotics and single cell manipulation under the superv
 ision of Prof. George J. Pappas and Prof. Vijay Kumar. Before joining Inst
 itute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems in 2012\, he worked as a postdoc
 toral associate with Prof. Harry Asada in the Department of Mechanical Eng
 ineering\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the generation and opt
 ogenetic control of engineered skeletal muscle microtissues. Currently he 
 is a senior research scientist in Prof. Bradley Nelson’s laboratory at E
 TH Zurich and he is working on the development of microrobotic platforms f
 or several bioengineering applications.\nAbstract : Biological systems are
  exquisitely sensitive to the location\, dose and timing of physiologic cu
 es and drugs. This spatiotemporal sensitivity necessitates the development
  of bioengineering platforms that can apply well-characterized local signa
 ls to understand fundamental principles of cellular behavior and to create
  novel therapeutic approaches for minimally invasive medicine. Microroboti
 cs is a relatively young field in which materials science and microelectro
 mechanical systems (MEMS) technology meet robotics creating the next gener
 ation complex machines operating in three-dimensional microenvironments. 
  In this talk\, I will present the design and fabrication of untethered ma
 gnetic microrobots for targeted and triggered therapy. Several examples wi
 ll be demonstrated to explain how microrobotic technologies can be utilize
 d to introduce compact and versatile bioengineering platforms. These platf
 orms will be able to perform automated micromanipulation on biological sam
 ples with high dexterity and precision and provide critical mechanistic in
 sight on the generation\, transmission and coordination of cellular forces
  during development\, regeneration and physiological function.
LOCATION:ME B1 10 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=MEB110
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