Guy Genin

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Materials Science
Washington University
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Date: February 12, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: The Gatesworth, 1 McKnight Place, St. Louis, MO 63124

Mechanical force has emerged as a critical component of all biological systems, providing mechanisms to sculpt plants and animals during morphogenesis, to enable cell migration, polarization, proliferation, and differentiation in response to physical changes in the environment, and to modulate the function of single molecules. Thus, mechanics permeates all of biology, and studies of genetics and biochemistry alone cannot explain how cells function or how tissues and organisms are formed. The National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Engineering Mechanobiology at Washington University represents a large scale effort to understand the role of mechanical force in living systems, and to expand mechanobiology from a science to an applied field. This talk will summarize work within the center, and describe some of my lab’s efforts to harness mechanobiology to controls, cells, tissues, and organisms.

Lunch Menu

Entrée: (Choose One)
•  Harvest Salad (Mixed Green, Dried Cranberries, Walnuts, Blue Cheese, Raspberry Vinaigrette)
•  Baked Lasagna with Cheese Garlic Bread
•  Turkey Cranberry and Brie with Fruit Cup
•  ½ Turkey Cranberry and Brie with Cup of Hearty Vegetable Soup

Desert choice: (Choose One)
•  Chocolate Bundt Cake
•  Fresh Fruit

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