Delphine Gourdon
Cornell University, USA
Biography
Delphine Gourdon is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at Chem EUC Santa Barbara in Jacob’s Israelachvili’s lab. She was then appointed as a lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich in the Materials Department before joining Cornell in 2009. She is a co-author of 30+ publications. Her research interests include tumorous cellular mechanotransduction, 2D and 3D microfabricated surfaces for engineering cell functions, and biolubrication.
Abstract
Abstract : 3D conducting polymer platforms for electrical control of protein conformation and cell functions