Dr. Khismatullin has visited Dr. Di Carlo laboratory at UCLA Bioengineering from February to May, 2016 to develop a computational algorithm for haptotactic spreading and contraction of a living cell. This algorithm is a part of VECAM-Active, a custom computational platform for fully three-dimensional modeling of motile cells. VECAM-Active has been shown to realistically simulate macrophage spreading and contraction on a patterned substrate, when compared with recent experimental data from Dr. Di Carlo's lab.
