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Carol Livermore's Biography



Carol Livermore, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

Carol Livermore joined Northeastern University in 2011, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.S., Physics) and Harvard University (A.M. and Ph.D., Physics), she was a postdoc, research scientist, and faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology prior to joining Northeastern. Broadly, her research focuses on the physics and manufacture of micro technologies to address key challenges in tissue engineering, assistive technologies, actuation, and nanomaterials. A major focus of her research is the application of origami techniques for structuring engineered tissues. Dr. Livermore has published more than 80 refereed papers in journals, conferences, and books, and she is a recipient of the 2007 NSF CAREER Award, a Northeastern University College of Engineering Faculty Fellowship, and several Best Paper, Best Poster, and Teaching awards.

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Origami-Enabled Tissue Engineering

Friday, 17 March 2017 at 17:30

Add to Calendar ▼2017-03-17 17:30:002017-03-17 18:30:00Europe/LondonOrigami-Enabled Tissue EngineeringSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

Replicating liver structure in engineered tissue is challenging because of liver’s dependence on the effective diffusion of nutrients and metabolic byproducts and because of the massive parallelism of its fine structure.  Origami-based microfluidics offers a new paradigm for addressing these challenges. Folding offers a low-cost, rapid means of creating larger scale fluidic structure to mimic vasculature; co-folding of porous and nonporous materials permits diffusion between hepatocytes and “engineered sinusoids”; and directed cell assembly offers control of cell organization at smaller length scales for the creation of hierarchical architectures. This talk will present the enabling tools of origami tissue engineering and their demonstration through the design, fabrication, and biological characterization of origami liver tissue units.


Add to Calendar ▼2017-03-16 00:00:002017-03-17 00:00:00Europe/London3D-Bioprinting, Tissue Engineering and Synthetic BiologySELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com