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Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes
Francesco Carrara, Jiande Zhou
Microfluidic models are proving to be powerful systems to study fundamental processes in porous media, due to their ability to replicate topologically complex environments while allowing detailed, quantitative observations at the pore scale. Yet, while por ...
Hoboken2024Biofilm morphogenesis on soft hydrogels
Bacteria often colonize their environment in the form of surface attached multicellular communities called biofilms. Biofilms grow from surface-attached cells that undergo division while self-embedding in a viscoelastic matrix. Biofilms grow at the surface ...
EPFL2023Robust and sustainable cultivation of microalgae: recycling of nitrogen from liquid digestate and control of biological contamination
The present doctoral thesis aimed to achieve a robust cultivation of microalgae by recycling nitrogen from a liquid digestate. However, the use of non-sterile nutrient source increases the risks of contamination of undesired organisms such as bacteria, vir ...
EPFL2021PDMS filter structures for size-dependent larval sorting and on-chip egg extraction of C. elegans
Martinus Gijs, Furkan Ayhan, Hüseyin Baris Atakan
C. elegans-based assays require age-synchronized populations prior to experimentation to achieve standardized sets of worm populations, due to which age-induced heterogeneous phenotyping effects can be avoided. There have been several approaches to synchro ...
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020Needle-free delivery of fluids from compact laser-based jet injector
Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Jan Krizek
Jet injection devices have been studied and developed for transdermal drug delivery to avoid the use of needles. Due to bulky actuation mechanisms, they are limited to body areas that are easy to reach such as skin. Here, we demonstrate a thin and long liq ...
2020Automated Platform for Long-Term Culture and High-Content Phenotyping of Single C. elegans Worms
Johan Auwerx, Martinus Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Laurent Mouchiroud, Elena Katsyuba, Hüseyin Baris Atakan, Rongrong Xiang
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a suitable model organism in drug screening. Traditionally worms are grown on agar plates, posing many challenges for long-term culture and phenotyping of animals under identical conditions. Microfluidics allows for ' ...
2019Studying the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans using microfluidic chips
C. elegans is an attractive model organism in biology, as it shows genetic similarity with humans, facilitates microscopic observation due to its transparency, and has a short life cycle. Moreover, many mutants expressing fluorescent proteins in particular ...
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019Optical microsystems for genetically engineered biosensors. Case study: Glucose monitoring
Diabetes is a global epidemic with millions of people dying from it every year. Progress in
microelectronics and machine learning has led to a huge number of FDA approvals of devices
for continuous monitoring and treatment of diabetes with one product usin ...
EPFL2019The role of mechanical hysteresis source in mechanical and mechanobiological performances of load-bearing biomaterials
Naser Nasrollahzadeh Mamaghani
Tissue engineering is a promising approach for articular cartilage regeneration as no satisfactory treatment is actually available for cartilage, partly due to the very limited self-healing capability of this tissue. To successfully induce a cartilaginous ...
EPFL2019Cofactor sensing proteins for metabolic assays at point-of-care
Miniaturized blood analysis promises a substantial improvement for the process of healthcare. However, most current blood analysis methods were developed in the context of centralized laboratories and there is a lack of robust detection technologies suitab ...
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