Microscale Engineering
for the Life Sciences

First day handout: PDF

ESR-Chip Related Material

Quantitative Analysis Of Microfluidic Flow
Mask Designs, 2010-03-16
PostScript Code For Spiral Chip Design (annotated)

Lecture Notes (2010)

Lecture #1...PDF
Lecture #3...PDF

Papers

Microfluidic diagnostic technologies for global public health (Yager et al, Nature 2006)

Older Papers

Rodriguez et al, PLOS 2005
Cheng et al, RSC 2006
Viral Blitzkrieg (background on CD4+ T cell infection by HIV)
Refolding The Envelope (how HIV binds to CD4 receptors on T-cells)

MATLAB files

sqerferr.m, for computing squared error between an erf function and a data set.
sqerferrc.m, for computing squared error between an erfc function and a data set (erfc is like erf, but goes from high to low rather than from low to high).

Project Ideas

List of potential project ideas from 2007 (PDF).

Mask Designs

DXF file containing circles with diameters of 4 and 3.5 inches. DXF file containing circles that can be used as a simple input filter (60 um diameter separated by 100 um, 3 rows of 11).