NINA TANDON – The power of being upside-down: perspectives from a yogi and cardiac tissue engineer
Don't we wanna move faster, write another email, make another phone call while txting and carrying groceries? Well, the thing is, that by acting this way we literally are tricking our bodies to thinking there's a tiger at every beep of the blackberry, and even the iphone and droid. We are letting our sympathetic nervous systems run rampant! And when the body thinks there's a tiger around the corner, it postpones all that "not-important stuff" like filtering the blood, digesting food, repairing microscopic tears in the skin and bones, and saves it for "later" which might as well be "never" if the phone's always beeping. Even if it's an iPhone and it sounds like crickets. Nina, a native New-Yorker, is a 2011 TED Fellow and Fulbright Alum. She is an electrical and biomedical engineer at Columbia University’s Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, and adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union, teaching a “Bioelectricity” class. She spent her early career in telecom (Avaya Labs), transitioning to biomedical engineering via a Fulbright in Italy (working on an electronic odor detector). She is also a certified yoga instructor. @ninatandon www.ninatandon.com
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NINA TANDON – The power of being upside-down: perspectives from a yogi and cardiac tissue engineer
- 1. Nina TANDON The Power Of Being Upside-down: Perspectives From A Yogi And Cardiac Tissue Engineer @ninatandon
- 2. Nina Tandon, PhD, RYT Ignite 6/8/2011 "The power of being upside-down: perspectives from a yogi and cardiac tissue engineer"
- 6. Kidney epithelial cell Neuron (nerve cell) Cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cell) Leukocyte (White blood cell) HeLa (Cervical cancer cell line) microbe
- 8. “plate” cells in tissue culture dishes change cell culture media (sterilely) grow cells in incubator Observe cells (under microscope)
- 9. Cell suspension perfusion Biomimetic Paradigm for Cardiac Tissue Engineering In the body In the lab… Synchronous contractions Blood flow
- 12. Florence, Italy Carthage, Tunisia Long Island City, NY
- 13. Baroreflex
- 20. Fear kills curiosity Curiosity kills fear
- 21. sniff Flip upside down Be happy (and smarter) Feel out the situation
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- copying nature in the lab.Let's take the example of the heart, the topic of a lot of my research.What makes the heart unique?Well, heart cells beat: rhythmically, tirelessly.We copy this in the lab by outfitting cell culture systems with electrodes, "mini pacemakers" to get them to contract. heart cells are also pretty greedy. Nature feeds heart cells with a very dense blood supply.In the lab, we micropattern channels through the biomaterials on which we grow the tissues to allow cell culture media to flow through.
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