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A Robotic Surgery Platform for Automated Tissue Micromanipulation in Zebrafish Embryos

Andrew Charles Oates, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Laurel Ann Rohde, Erfan Etesami

Microsurgical manipulations are key experimental techniques in life science research, particularly in embryology. These techniques are most often performed manually by highly skilled scientists, posing limitations on speed, precision, and reproducibility. ...

2024

Development of a Robotic Microsurgeon for Embryonic Research

Ece Özelçi

Understanding how biological matter takes its shape is instrumental to biology, bioengineering, medicine, and bioinspired engineering. Gaining information on the principles of morphogenesis could enable clinicians to correct developmental abnormalities, ev ...

EPFL2023

Deconstructing body axis morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos using robot-assisted tissue micromanipulation

Andrew Charles Oates, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Erik Mailand, Matthias Rüegg

Classic microsurgical techniques, such as those used in the early 1900s by Mangold and Spemann, have been instrumental in advancing our understanding of embryonic development. However, these techniques are highly specialized, leading to issues of inter-ope ...

Nature Research2022

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Christina Myra Tringides

We present a new cell culture technology for large-scale mechanobiology studies capable of generating and applying optically controlled uniform compression on single cells in 3D. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are individually encapsulated inside an optical ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology (vol 22, pg 1962, 2022)

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Christina Myra Tringides

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Tissue Engineering with Mechanically Induced Solid‐Fluid Transitions

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Jaemin Kim, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas, Matthias Rüegg, Jon Märki, Odysseas Konstantinos Chaliotis

Epithelia are contiguous sheets of cells that stabilize the shape of internal organs and support their structure by covering their surfaces. They acquire diverse morphological forms appropriate for their specific functions during embryonic development, suc ...

Wiley2021

Investigating Tissue Mechanics in vitro Using Untethered Soft Robotic Microdevices

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and operation of a soft robotic compression device that is remotely powered by laser illumination. We combined the rapid and wireless response of hybrid nanomaterials with state-of-the-art microengineering techn ...

2021

Remotely Controlled Colloidal Assembly of Soft Microrobotic Artificial Muscle

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira

2020

Modular soft robotic microdevices for dexterous biomanipulation

Francesco Stellacci, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Ahmet Bekdemir, Murat Kaynak, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini

We present a methodology for building biologically inspired, soft microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. Our strategy combines several advanced techniques including programmable colloidal self-assembly, light-harvesting with plasmonic nanotransduce ...

2019