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A model for mechanosensitive cell migration in dynamically morphing soft tissues

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas, Jaemin Kim

2023

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

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

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

Engineered Extracellular Matrices with Integrated Wireless Microactuators to Study Mechanobiology

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas, Fazil Emre Uslu

Mechanobiology explores how forces regulate cell behaviors and what molecular machinery are responsible for the sensing, transduction, and modulation of mechanical cues. To this end, probing of cells cultured on planar substrates has served as a primary ex ...

Wiley2021

Mechanical principles of engineering fibrous tissues with programmable shape

Erik Mailand

The form and structure of biological tissues define their function. The emergence of tissue morphology during development is one of the wonders of nature. Cells mechanically probe and manipulate their surroundings while constructing structures from the ext ...

EPFL2021

Tissue Engineering with Mechanically Induced Solid‐Fluid Transitions

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

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

A model for 3D deformation and reconstruction of contractile microtissues

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas, Jaemin Kim

Tissue morphogenesis and regeneration are essentially mechanical processes that involve coordination of cellular forces, production and structural remodeling of extracellular matrix (ECM), and cell migration. Discovering the principles of cell–ECM interact ...

2020

Surface and bulk stresses drive morphological changes in fibrous microtissues

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas

Engineered fibrous tissues consisting of cells encapsulated within collagen gels are widely used three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models of morphogenesis and wound healing. While cell-mediated matrix remodeling that occurs within these scaffolds has been ex ...

2019

Universal Soft Robotic Microgripper

Giovanni Dietler, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Erik Mailand, Jiangtao Zhou, Zhangjun Huang, John Martin Kolinski, Haiyan Jia, Xunhui Wang

2019

Complete inclusion of bioactive molecules and particles in polydimethylsiloxane: a straightforward process under mild conditions

Alice Cont, Elaheh Zare Eelanjegh, Erik Mailand, René M. Rossi

By applying a slow curing process, we show that biomolecules can be incorporated via a simple process as liquid stable phases inside a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) matrix. The process is carried out under mild conditions with regards to temperature, pH and ...

Springer Nature2019