We presented our work entitled “Platform for in-vitro photo-patterning of whole animal C. elegans assays and behavior control.” at MicroTas 2014.
Dear ME Faculty and Grad Students,
Christopher “Ryan” Oliver will defend his dissertation entitled “DIRECT-WRITE MANUFACTURING AND MANIPULATION OF MICROPARTICLES, OBJECTS AND ORGANISMS” (see attached abstract), on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 1:00PM in 1180 R DC.
Dissertation Committee Chairs: John Hart and Nikolaos Chronis
ABSTRACT
DIRECT-WRITE MANUFACTURING AND MANIPULATION OF MICROPARTICLES, OBJECTS AND ORGANISMS
By
Christopher Ryan Oliver
Chair: Professor John Hart
Recent advances in soft material microfabrication technologies are enabling wide-ranging studies of cellular and organism behavior in vitro; however, these methods are generally time-consuming, challenging to implement by non-experts, are limited to planar features, and cannot be reconfigured within live environments. As a result, it […]
MIT News has graciously recognized our work on maskless lithography for microparticle synthesis. The article was written by Denis Paiste of the Materials Processing Center and the original can be found here.
If you would like to download a pdf you can find it here Shining a light on tiny polymer shapes – MIT News Office.
MIT News has featured a piece written by Denis Paiste from the Materials Processing Center discussing our work on improving Carbon Nanotube consistency. I really appreciate the attention that has been given to how we can translate the fantastic body of work on synthesis of carbon nanotubes into repeatable experiments that can be used towards thermal interconnects and batteries. Find the original article here.
PDF version -> Improving carbon nanotube consistency in the lab – MIT News Office
We’d like to thank the editor at Review of Scientific Instruments for highlighting our work on a Robotic CVD system for nanomaterial growth.
In July, 2013 the Mechanosynthesis Group led by Prof. John Hart moved from the University of Michigan, where it had resided since 2007, to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a member of the lab I am happy to be a visiting scholar at MIT for the 2013-2014 academic year. I’m currently looking to establish collaborations and relationships with researchers at MIT. Feel free to reach out to me at croliver@mit.edu
The executive committee of NIMSA is proud to invite you to a very special evening. The NIMSA Celebrate Creativity: Engineering Art Show.
This event is the brainchild of myself and President David Hiemstra. It is an opportunity for engineering to show off their artistic and creative talents.
Blueprint will also be releasing its annual magazine featuring art and literature from around campus.
I’m pleased to announce that as an Microfluidics and Biomedical Sciences Training Program Fellow I will also be serving on the executive board to plan this years seminar series (student/faculty). We will also be hosting a symposium at the end of the year for fellows and members to present their work to colleagues.
I was selected as one of six fellows to receive the Microfluidics and Biomedical Sciences Training Program (MBSTP) Fellowship for the academic year 2012-2013.
From the MBSTP website:
“The MBSTP is a National Institute of Health (NIH) / National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) funding training program that supports an interdisciplinary approach to graduate training that emphasizes biomedical microfluidics. The program supports 6 students each for 2 years. 45 faculty members from 20 different deparments from the College of Engineering, the College of LS&A, and the Medical School participate. Although the program only supports 6 students, all those interested are […]
The Kapsowar Hospital in Kenya provides much needed medical services for the rift valley. Through the support of like minded individuals I was able to travel with my wife to provide engineering services to the hospital.
We delivered, installed and administered a hospital wide server and computer network in the hope it would improve patient outcome and training of nurses in the area.
I worked with an engineer there named Leilei and together we designed a way of generating oxygen to serve all the wards of the hospital. This is needed because oxygen tanks run out quickly and delivery is sporadic and […]
