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In search of breast cancer cell secretions with therapeutic and diagnostic value.
(2014-06-06)
The first end point of this study was to identify specific pro-apoptotic or anti-proliferative factors in the breast cancer cell secretome. To this end, we designed an in vitro screen that effectively cross-cultured 20 ...
Density-Based Separations in Aqueous Multiphase Systems: Tools for Biological Research and Low-Cost Diagnostics
(2014-06-06)
Cells often exist in heterogeneous mixtures. Density provides a property to separate several types of cells from the mixed sample in which they originate. Density-based separation methods provide a standard method to ...
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres with Specific Interactions
(2014-06-06)
In this thesis, I discuss engineering colloidal particles to have specific, isotropic interactions and studying their cluster geometries in equilibrium. I discuss light scattering experiments showing that a highly specific ...
Mechanics and Dynamics of Biopolymer Networks
(2014-06-06)
The three major mechanical components of cells are the biopolymers actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments. Cellular processes are all highly reliant on the mechanics of the specific biopolymers and the networks ...
Time-Domain Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography: Algorithms and Applications
(2014-10-21)
Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides non-invasive, in vivo imaging of molecular targets in small animals. While standard fluorescence microscopy is limited to shallow depths and small fields of view, tomographic ...
Bringing bioelectricity to light: all-optical electrophysiology using microbial rhodopsins
(2014-10-21)
My work has focused on the development and application of fluorescent voltage-sensitive proteins based on microbial rhodopsins. These probes led to the discovery of electrical activity in the bacterium Escherichia coli, ...