Nathan Sniadecki - Assistant Professor

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Schools & Degrees

University of Notre Dame (BS 2000)
University of Maryland at College Park (MS/PhD 2003)
The Johns Hopkins University (Post-Doc Fellow, 2004)
University of Pennsylvania (Post-Doc Fellow, 2007)

Interest Group

Mechanics, Materials and Manufacturing

Courses

ME 354: Mechanics of Materials Lab
ME 498/599: Biological Frameworks for Engineers
ME 599: Analysis and Modeling of Cell Mechanics

Contact Information

Phone: 206-685-6591
Fax: 206-685-8047
Office: MEB 318
Email: nsniadec@u.washington.edu

Biography

Prof. Nathan Sniadecki joined the University of Washington in September 2007 after post-doctoral fellowships in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Biomedical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and a B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame.

His research is in the areas of mechanobiology, bioinstrumentation, and bioMEMS (micro-electromechanical systems for biological studies). His specialty is the engineering of micro- and nanofabricated measurement tools for the understanding of cell mechanics and mechanotransduction, which is the biological conversion of mechanical signals into biochemical changes in cells. The long-term goal of his work is towards technological advancements in the areas of tissue engineering, developmental biology, and the mechano-progression of disease in the cardiovascular, connective, and muscle tissues.

Select Publications

Sniadecki, N.J., Angelouch, A., Yang, M.T., Tan, J.L., Liu, Z., Reich, D.H., Chen, C.S., (2007) Magnetic Microposts As An Approach to Apply Forces to Living Cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA. 104:14553-14558. [link]

Sniadecki, N.J., Chen, C.S., (2007) Microfabricated Silicone Elastomeric Posts Arrays for Measuring Traction Forces of Adherent Cells. In Methods in Cell Biology - Cell Mechanics, Volume 83. (ed. Y-L.Wang and D.E. Discher), Elsevier: New York. 13:313-328.

Sniadecki, N.J., Desai, R.A., Alom Ruiz, S., Chen, C.S., (2006) Nanotechnology for Cell-Substrate Interactions. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 34(1): 59-74. [link]

Nelson, C.M., Jean, R.P., Tan, J.L., Liu, W.F., Sniadecki, N.J., Spector, A.A., Chen, C.S., (2005) Emergent patterns of growth controlled by multicellular form and mechanics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - USA. 102(33):11594-11599. [link]

Sniadecki, N.J., Lee C.S., Sivanesan P., DeVoe D.L., (2004) Induced Pressure Pumping in Polymer T-Channels via Field-Effect Flow Control, Analytical Chemistry, 76(7):1942-7. [link]