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 are of interests in biology 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 Current research projects: 3D microfluidic in vitro models for cancer metastasis (NCI, CMM). Mapping 4D cellular traction using a defocused particle tracking method (NIH, NCRR). Physical cues guiding sperm migration (NIH R01). Physical and chemical drivers in bacterial dynamics (NSF, Lehman Scholar fund at Cornell). We are affiliated with Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University. For more detailed information about our research, please see our lab poster.	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’. 3/2/12  11:45am, Riley Robb, Ithaca, NY--  Hall will give an invited talk at the Annual Research Symposium in the Biological and Environmental Engineering department  on the development of a 4D traction force microscope. 3/1/12  2:30 pm, Boston, MA. Wu will give an invited talk at the American Physical Society meeting on bacterial chemotaxis and microfluidics.
	Biofluidics Lab, 141 and B48 Riley Robb, 330 Duffield Hall, , Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
		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.