2017

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Oct 11, 2017

Sid successfully passes his Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congratulations Sid!

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Sept 5, 2017

Leila successfully passes her Ph.D. qualifying exam. Congratulations Leila!

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July 7, 2017

Our paper on label-free high throughput holographic screening and enumeration of tumor cells in blood has been accepted for publication in Lab on a Chip journal and highlighted as a cover article. Congratulations Dhananjay and Caroline!

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Jun 20, 2017

Nabi successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis on "Microfluidic Investigation of Biomechanics of Tumor Cells Under Microcirculatory Conditions". Congratulations Nabi!

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Feb 9, 2017

Our paper on passage times and friction of cancer cells and deformable particles  has been accepted for publication in the Convergent Science Physical Oncology journal. Congratulations Zeina and Nabi!

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Feb 3, 2017

Prof. Vanapalli delivers an invited talk at the "Microfluidics, Liquid Handling and Lab-on-a-chip" meeting, organized by SELECTBIO in Mumbai.

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Jan 18, 2017

Swastika's paper on microfluidic technology for drug testing on tumor cells and their clusters has been published in the Scientific Reports journal. Congratulations Swastika!

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Jan 4, 2017

Our paper on high throughput fingerprinting of tumor cells using digital holography microscopy has been published in Biomedical Optics Express. Congratulations Dhananjay and Caroline!

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2016

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Oct 29, 2016

Jen and Mizan bag awards at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research for our work on muscle strength and aging in C. elegans. Congratulations Jen and Mizan!!

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Oct 18, 2016

Mizan Rahman successfully defends his PhD thesis - "Development of Microfluidic Platforms for Muscle Strength and Aging Investigations in the Model Organism C. elegans". Congratulations Dr. Rahman!!

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Sept 23, 2016

William's paper on mechanisms of mass transfer during coalescence-induced drop dilution has been accepted in the Physical Review Fluids  journal. Congratulations William!

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July 5, 2016

Our comprehensive review article on microfluidic viscometers for shear rheology has been published in the Biomicrofluidics journal. Congratulations Sid and William!

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June 1, 2016

We have received funding from CPRIT to develop a microfluidic technology to screen drugs for cancer cachexia in C. elegans.

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May 6, 2016

Mizan places first in the poster competition of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Research Day, for his work on muscle strength measurement in C.elegans.

 

April 21, 2016

Our work on smart-phone based microfluidic viscometer has been accepted for publication in Rheologica Acta. This technology has been licensed to Neofluidics, Inc.

 

March 28, 2016

Prof. Vanapalli presents our work on "Squeezing and fragmentation of cancer cells" at the Aspen Winter Conference on Physics of Disease and Development.

 

March 15, 2016

Nabi's paper on tumor cell fragmentation is published in Biomicrofludics journal as a fast-track communication & highlighted in Editor's picks. 

 

March 14, 2016

In collaboration with Dr. Valeria Garbin at Imperial College, we have been awarded a Royal Society Award for student exchange.

 

Feb  23, 2016

Prof. Vanapalli gave a seminar on "Microfluidic tools for phenotyping the physical fitness of the worm C.elegans" at the Institute of Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago.

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2015

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Nov 3, 2015

Prof. Vanapalli gave a seminar on "Hydrodynamics of drops in microfluidic parking networks " at the Levich Institute, City College New York.

 

Oct 15, 2015

Prof. Vanapalli has been awarded the Ed & Linda Whitacre Faculty Fellowship by Whitacre College of Engineering

 

Sept 29, 2015

William Wang successfully defends his PhD thesis - "Droplet Microfluidics: A Study of Traffic and Mass Transfer in Two-Phase Microfluidic Networks". Congratulations Dr. Wang!!

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