HOME Group members Research Quantitative imaging Bio-inspired engineering Biomachineries Microvasculature Publications Teaching Protocols Open positions Links Intranet Chinese Wisdom: ******************* Under heaven, nothing is more soft and yielding than water, yet, for attacking the solid and the strong, nothing is better, it has no equal. *******************	Welcome to the Biofluidics Lab We are interested in understanding fundamental principles that nature uses to build and control living systems at micrometer scales, in particular through their interactions with fluids. We then use this knowledge to design micrometer scale devices that have applications in health and environment. Current research focus is on understanding physical and molecular mechanisms that govern cellular adhesion, motility and chemotaxis at intra- and inter- cellular level, and then use these insights to solve practical problems in cancer metastases and vascular tissue formation. Tools used in our research are: microfabricated devices, advanced quantitative imaging, and numerical/analytical computation News 4/10/12  2:45pm, San Francisco, CA – Hall will speak at the Material Research Society meeting on ‘Mapping Single Cell Traction Field within a Three Dimensional Collagen Matrix Using a Fluorescence Microscope’. 4/6/12 -- Congratulation to Matt and Rong for the acceptance of their paper on the development of a 4D traction force microscope in Biophysical Journal. 3/31/12 -- Congratulations to Chris Roh, who was awarded a 2012 NSF graduate research fellowship. More news
	Supported by grants from the National Institute of Health, Cornell Center for the Microenvironment and Metastasis(CMM), National Science Foundation CBET--0619626 (Disclaimer), and the NSF-sponsored Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) at Cornell.