Thermo Fisher Discovery and Impact Symposium Series
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry Seminar Series

Erdost Yildiz, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
May 3, 2024 · 3:00 pm
Beetham Family Seminar Room, Room 127 Knight Campus
Hosted by Teresa Rapp

Microscale Robotics as a Research Tool for Cellular Biophysics

The human body consists of diverse cellular environments, which leads to various therapeutic and diagnostic challenges for medical experts. While improvements and discoveries of new pharmaceutical agents, devices, and methods are ongoing, a deeper investigation of cellular biophysics is required. From this perspective, mobile microrobotics is an emerging field that revolutionizes medical applications in the diagnostics and therapeutics of various diseases.

Thanks to wireless manipulation methods with various physical forces, microrobots can mimic cellular functions, manipulate cells, and deliver pharmaceutical and physical treatment agents on a micro- scale. In this talk, I will focus on the usage of mobile microrobots to understand cellular biophysics and give some examples from different organ systems.