March 2nd CTE Seminar

Faculty Presentation

Title: Integrated Multi-Sensing Platforms for Quantifying Cellular Phenotypes and
Designing Cellular Microenvironments

Presenter: Dr. Caroline N. Jones, Department of Biological Sciences

Research group: Jones Lab

The Jones laboratory focuses on developing novel integrated microfluidic platforms for cell cultivation and phenotype analysis. During this ‘Computational Tissue Engineering Seminar’, Dr. Jones will present three research themes from her laboratory:

1. Lab-on-a-chip platforms to model and study innate immune cell dysfunction during sepsis
2. On-chip biosensors to study immune cell-pathogen interactions with single cell precision and to screen novel immunotherapies
3. 3D hydrogel platforms to precisely control and quantify the effects of the microenvironment on liver and breast cancer cell lines

Dr. Jones’ work is highly interdisciplinary involving aspects of microfabrication, surface engineering, biomaterials, biosensors, computational modeling, and immunology/molecular biology.