Browsing Department of Bioengineering (BE, Earlier known as BSSE) by Title
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4D Printing of Polymer Composites to Engineer Resorbable and Deployable Implants
Medical implants include products that are used to replace or restore the function of any damaged organ or tissue inside the body. The current generation of implants are mostly made from non-degradable materials and are ... -
Analysis of vocal sounds in asthmatic patients
Around 334 million people have asthma worldwide. Asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airways which causes cough, breathlessness, chest tightness, and other peculiar sounds during breathing. The golden standard test ... -
Bacterial cellular heterogeneity in inducible gene expression and drug susceptibility
Biological processes are inherently noisy, and such stochasticity can result in significant cell to cell variability in isogenic bacterial populations. Functionally, cellular heterogeneity can have significant impact on ... -
Bioengineering strategies to model and modulate immune cells
Optimal activation of immune cells is necessary to elicit a protective response against pathogens and foreign objects. In dysregulated immune systems, cells are aberrantly activated or exhausted. Understanding biochemical ... -
Biophysics of focal adhesion and cytoskeletal remodeling under fluid shear
Mechanosensors play a vital role in how cells respond to external forces, impacting cell-substrate adhesions through integrin clustering and focal adhesion formation associated with actomyosin contractility. Adhesions ... -
Caenorhabditis elegans-Bacteria interactions: Neuronal Regulation of Innate Immune Responses
The survival of an organism depends on its ability to sense threats and execute appropriate defense mechanisms. C. elegans is a soil-dwelling nematode that feeds on bacteria in rotting vegetation. The nematode has few ... -
Compositionality of letter shape in word recognition
As you read this sentence, your brain just performed a miraculous task of converting collections of letter shapes into meaning. Reading is a cultural invention that is thought to exploit the intrinsic recognition abilities ... -
A Control Systems Approach to Understanding Saccadic Eye Movements
The oculomotor system is extensively studied using concepts of control theory like optimal control, feedback control, and predictive control. But these studies have largely been restricted to investigating the central ... -
Cues for phagosome maturation deciphered using a tuneable particulate system
Phagocytosis, an essential component of the innate immune response, is followed by the process of phagosome maturation inside the cell. Maturation ensures that the engulfed target is delivered to the acidic lysosome for ... -
Delineating the dynamics of neutrophil response in multiple inflammatory stimuli and its consequences
In this thesis, we investigate the regulation of neutrophils, an important component of the immune system, and its implications on inflammation and pathological conditions. We use biomaterial implants to induce chronic ... -
Design and Development of a Semi-automated System for Electro-thermo-mechanical (Etm) Phenotyping of Breast Tissues Ex-vivo
Breast cancer currently accounts for 25% of all cancers diagnosed in women globally. The conventional confirmatory diagnosis of breast cancer involves histological analysis using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, ... -
Design Principles of Phenotypic Robustness and Plasticity in Gene Regulatory Networks underlying Cancer Metastasis
Metastasis – the process of cancer cells leaving the primary tumor and colonizing multiple organs – remains a major cause of cancer mortality. However, it is a highly inefficient process with only 0.01% of disseminated ... -
Development of anti-infective therapy against intracellular pathogens using targeted particulate delivery systems
Pathogens from bacterial class: Salmonella, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Listeria can survive and replicate intracellularly. While some pathogens remain cytosolic others such as Salmonella and Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... -
Dynamical systems biology approach to identify mediators of the Epithelial-Hybrid-Mesenchymal spectrum
Cancer metastasis – the spread of cancer cells from one organ to another – remains the major cause of cancer-related deaths. A hallmark of metastasizing cells is their ability to adapt quickly and reversibly to their dynamic ... -
Engineering 3D Organotypic Models for the Study of Breast Cancer Metastasis
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women the world over. Metastasis, or, the spreading of the primary tumor to other vital organs, is the major cause of mortality in breast cancer. Metastasis is a ... -
Engineering Disease Models for Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Tissues
Biomedical research aims to gain deeper insights into the mechanisms of human pathophysiology to develop improved therapies and diagnostics. Despite significant advances made in the understanding and treatment of human ... -
Engineering Graphene Oxide Surface Chemistry and Investigating Its Effect on The Physicochemical and Biological Properties
In the current study, systematic tuning of oxidation degree of GO has been explored and a two-step methodology for engineering GO surface chemistry was successfully developed. The investigation of the effects of oxidation ... -
Engineering three-dimensional hydrogel culture systems to delineate host-pathogen interaction in tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), an obligate human pathogen, spreads through aerosols to the lung alveoli, where alveolar macrophages engulf it. These macrophages then migrate to the lung interstitium and trigger an ... -
Experimental and computational approaches to understand collective behaviors of bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen, estimated to account for 15-20% of hospital-acquired infection-related deaths around the globe in a year. This bacterium exhibits two distinct collective ... -
Functional regulation of cytoplasmic dynein in vivo
In the crowded confines of the eukaryotic cell, where large cargo (> 100 nm) are diffusionaly constrained, intracellular transport by motor proteins plays a crucial role in the exchange of material between various compartments ...