6-28-2010

Guillaume presented journal club on lab on chip paper regarding acoustic wave based particle patterning

Joe presented his progress on the perfusion of Gelma channel encapsulated with osteo progenitor cells. Suggestions include

1. Clarify the story line, make it clear how to design experiment to show the influence of perfusion on the progenitor cell differentiation with spatial variance across the channel.

2. Consider the falling effect on the cells which may attribute to the concentration of cells along the semi-spherical section of the channel

3. Do a time-series image to monitor the migration and proliferation of the cells encapsulated in the Gelma microchannel

Hao presented his work on induction of polarized differentiation of EB by 3D hybrid microgels. Should consider the following work which may elucidate more biological mechanisms of the procedure.