MechE Colloquium: Mechanics of Multicellular Living Systems: Reality and Virtual world

Speaker: <a href="https://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/guom@mit.edu">Prof. Ming Guo</a>, <a href="https://meche.mit.edu/">Department of Mechanical Engineering</a>, <a href="https://imes.mit.edu/">Institute for Medical Engineering and Science</a>, <a href="https://m-cels.mit.edu/">Center for Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems</a>, <a href="https://www.mit.edu/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> Organiser: <a href="https://people.epfl.ch/sangwoo.kim">Prof. Sangwoo Kim</a> <strong>Abstract: </strong>Multicellular tissues are sculpted by the spatial and temporal coordination of cells and their interactions with the surrounding matrix and among each other. Yet, the organizational principles that govern these events, and their disruption in disease, remain poorly understood. In this talk, I will first discuss our recent experimental work investigating cell and ECM mechanics, multicellular mechanical and dynamic organization in several physiologically relevant systems, including cells in 3D matrices, breast cancer organoid, growing human lung alveolospheres, and mou