"Optically-driven Nano Robotics and Chemical IC Chips by 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication", Dr. Ikuta

Dear all,

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar as follows.
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Date: Friday, September 8
Time: 16:30-
Venue: Seminar Room C209, Center Bldg
Speaker: Koji Ikuta Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Biomicro Mechatronics and Robotics Lab.
Department of Information Physics and Computing, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Title: Optically-driven Nano Robotics and Chemical IC Chips by 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication.

Abstract: Professor Ikuta has been developing several types of the “optically-driven micro/nano robots” working in liquid. A real three dimensional micro fabrication process using photo curable polymer named “micro/nano stereolithography “ developed by his group is utilized. This process achieved 100 nm in 3D resolution and the freely movable micro/nano structures can be fabricated without any assembling or bonding process. Nano tweezers/needle and nano robot hand with 3 D.O.F. were successfully fabricated and verified to control. Several kind of “living cell” and delicate biological materials can be remotely handled. The sub-pN range real-time force sensing system has been developed and force measuring ability during micro operation of living cell was verified.. Mechanical property of the yeast cell and red blood cell were measured successfully. These results bring new aspect to cellular biology, because the mechanical stimulation and measurement became more important in a leading edge of mechano-biology.

Secondly, a newly developed 3D nano fabrication has been opening the Tissue Engineering micro chips. The advanced biochemical IC chip-set for “on chip cell-free protein synthesis” and “Proteomic device” to analyze protein of the cells were developed. And poison-free process was developed to utilize commercial photo curable polymers for cell level biocompatible devices.

Thirdly, a new micro device composed by several biochemical IC chips to detect the micro-RNA was developed. Since the cancer dependence of the micro-RNA was found recently, it enable us to find the cancer at earlier stage than conventional cancer marker based on the protein and molecular spreded from the cancer. The latest version of micro-RNA detection devices is finger size and low cost.

Bio: Professor Koji Ikuta received his first B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, and his second B.S. and M.S. in Biophysical Engineering in 1977,1979 and 1981 respectively from Osaka University. He received a Ph.D in Control Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1987. He joined the Center for Robotic Systems in Microelectronics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987. He was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo and an associate professor at Kyusyu Institute of Technology. He has moved to Nagoya University as a full professor at the new department of micro/nano system engineering in 1994. He moved to the University of Tokyo to upgrade his research from 2010. He organized EEE MEMS’94 as a General Chair and the steering committee of MEMS from 1992.

He was awarded more than 30 academic prizes for his outstanding research in biomedical micro machines (Bio-MEMS) and medical robotics from government and academic societies such as the Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) and several foundations. Outstanding Researcher Prize from Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan, The Achievement award from American Association on Laboratory Automation and Best paper award from Japan Society of Robots etc. He received a Purple Medal from Japanese Emperor in 2010. Recently he serves an international advisory board of Science Robotics.

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We hope to see many of you.
Sincerely,
Emiko Asato
Neural Computation Unit