GEM4labs

GEM4 Summer School Labs

Tissue Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

Lab Description

Mechanical testing of cartilage under static and dynamic compression and shear. Plugs of bovine tissue will be provided for running through a series of tests in the apparatus.

FLTM Lab

Magnetic Trap Microrhology

Multiphoton Microscopy

Optical Trap: DNA

Optical Trap: cells

Instrumentation Teaching Lab

AFM: cells

AFM: force spectroscopy

bioMEMS force sensor

Microfluidics