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Joo Yong Sim
Mechanical Engineering
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Graduate Student Fellowships 2010/2011
Professor Beth Pruitt (Mechanical Engineering)
Joo Yong is interested in the interdisciplinary research for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), mechanics, and mechanobiology. He has been working in the Pruitt Lab and collaborating with Nelson lab on the mechanics of cell to cell adhesions. He is developing mechanical stimulation systems and custom measurements for studying mechanotransduction of cells and the proteins associated with cell to cell and cell to matrix adhesion including vinculin and E-cadherin.
His research will focus on revealing the role of the mechanical loading on regulating the cell adhesion and motility using the high-throughput mechanical stimulation systems and traction microscopy techniques. |
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