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Development of a Robotic Microsurgeon for Embryonic Research

Understanding how biological matter takes its shape is instrumental to biology, bioengineering, medicine, and bioinspired engineering. Gaining information on the principles of morphogenesis could enable clinicians to correct developmental abnormalities, ev ...

EPFL2023

Tissue Engineering with Mechanically Induced Solid‐Fluid Transitions

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Jaemin Kim, Ece Özelçi, Erik Mailand, Nikolaos Bouklas, Matthias Rüegg

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

Modular soft robotic microdevices for dexterous biomanipulation

Francesco Stellacci, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ahmet Bekdemir, Murat Kaynak, Ece Özelçi, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira

We present a methodology for building biologically inspired, soft microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices. Our strategy combines several advanced techniques including programmable colloidal self-assembly, light-harvesting with plasmonic nanotransduce ...

2019

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Christina Myra Tringides

We present a new cell culture technology for large-scale mechanobiology studies capable of generating and applying optically controlled uniform compression on single cells in 3D. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are individually encapsulated inside an optical ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

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

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

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

A Robotic Surgery Platform for Automated Tissue Micromanipulation in Zebrafish Embryos

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Andrew Charles Oates, Ece Özelçi, Laurel Ann Rohde

Microsurgical manipulations are key experimental techniques in life science research, particularly in embryology. These techniques are most often performed manually by highly skilled scientists, posing limitations on speed, precision, and reproducibility. ...

2024

Investigating Tissue Mechanics in vitro Using Untethered Soft Robotic Microdevices

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and operation of a soft robotic compression device that is remotely powered by laser illumination. We combined the rapid and wireless response of hybrid nanomaterials with state-of-the-art microengineering techn ...

2021

Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology (vol 22, pg 1962, 2022)

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Berna Ayse Özkale Edelmann, Christina Myra Tringides

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Remotely Controlled Colloidal Assembly of Soft Microrobotic Artificial Muscle

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Ece Özelçi, Raquel Filipa Penacho Parreira

2020