Microrobotic Platforms in Bioengineering and Translational Medicine
Event details
| Date | 27.03.2015 |
| Hour | 14:00 › 15:00 |
| Speaker |
Dr. Mahmut Selman Sakar, ETHZ Bio : Mahmut Selman Sakar received the B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with honors from Bogazici University in 2005 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 2010. During his doctoral studies, he worked on microrobotics and single cell manipulation under the supervision of Prof. George J. Pappas and Prof. Vijay Kumar. Before joining Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems in 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Harry Asada in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the generation and optogenetic control of engineered skeletal muscle microtissues. Currently he is a senior research scientist in Prof. Bradley Nelson’s laboratory at ETH Zurich and he is working on the development of microrobotic platforms for several bioengineering applications. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract : Biological systems are exquisitely sensitive to the location, dose and timing of physiologic cues and drugs. This spatiotemporal sensitivity necessitates the development of bioengineering platforms that can apply well-characterized local signals to understand fundamental principles of cellular behavior and to create novel therapeutic approaches for minimally invasive medicine. Microrobotics is a relatively young field in which materials science and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology meet robotics creating the next generation complex machines operating in three-dimensional microenvironments. In this talk, I will present the design and fabrication of untethered magnetic microrobots for targeted and triggered therapy. Several examples will be demonstrated to explain how microrobotic technologies can be utilized to introduce compact and versatile bioengineering platforms. These platforms will be able to perform automated micromanipulation on biological samples with high dexterity and precision and provide critical mechanistic insight on the generation, transmission and coordination of cellular forces during development, regeneration and physiological function.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- IGM-GE
Contact
- Géraldine Palaj