Other Track AgendasTrack One | Track Two |
Thursday, 20 November 201408:00 | Registration & Coffee | 08:55 | Opening Address by Dr. Zhiping Wang, Director, SIMTech Microfluidics Foundry | 09:00 |  | Keynote Presentation Disposable microfluidic devices for biological applications
Luc Bousse, Director of Microfluidics, InSilixa Inc, United States of America
Efforts to combine microfabrication technology, most notably silicon device technology, and biology and medicine started as early as the 1970’s with silicon-based ion-sensitive field effect transistors. Since then, the focus has mostly been on microfluidics consisting of microchannels fabricated in insulating substrates such as glass and polymers. Fabricating these with high precision injection molding enables the use of cost-effective disposable devices. More recent work on silicon VLSI-based technology has demonstrated a 2-D biosensor array of individual biosensing elements that consist of miniaturized CMOS integrated sensors interfaced with capturing molecules (probes) that can interact with bio-molecules of interest. |
| 09:50 |  | Keynote Presentation Micro Magnetofluidics –Wireless Control for Microfluidics
Nam Trung Nguyen, Professor/Director, Griffith University, Australia
Microfluidics is rich in multi-physics phenomena, which offer fundamentally new capabilities in the manipulation and detection of biological particles. Most current microfluidic applications are based on hydrodynamic, electrokinetic, acoustic and optic actuation. Implementing these concepts requires bulky external pumping/valving systems and energy supplies.
The required wires and connectors make their fabrication and handling difficult. The use of magnetism would provide a wireless solution for this need.
Micro magnetofluidics provides a convenient and wireless way for control and manipulation of fluid flow in the microscale.This talk presents recent interesting phenomena in both continuous-flow and digital mciro magnetofluidics. |
| 10:40 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | |
Microfluidic Components & Devices |
| | 11:15 | Multiplexed microfluidic culture device for stem cell culturing
Nicolas Szita, Professor, University College London, United Kingdom
| 11:40 | Controlled liquid flow in a microfluidic channel
Markku Känsäkoski, Vice President, Ginolis Ltd, Finland
| 12:05 | Integrated Silicon Biophotonic Devices for Point-of-Care Diagnostic Applications
Mi Kyoung Park, Head, A*STAR (Agency For Science Technology And Research), Singapore
The silicon biophotonic devices provide a promising means for the label-free detection of target molecules and for the real-time monitoring of solutions that occur near the device surface. We describe our recent developments in integrated Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) systems based on silicon biophotonic sensors for point-of-care applications in the field of cancer diagnostics and infectious disease detection. | 12:30 | Microfluidics for photocatalytic water purification: now and beyond
Xuming Zhang, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Photocatalytic water purification utilizes light to degrade the contaminants in water and may enjoy many merits of the microfluidics technology.
This talk will start with the explanation of physical mechanisms that underpin the synergy of microfluidics and photocatalysis, followed by a systematic review of different types of microfluidic reactors that have been demonstrated for photocatalysis, including the serial work of our own group.
Finally, the prospects of microfluidic reactors for niche applications will be discussed. | 12:55 | Lunch Break and Poster Session | 14:40 | A paper/plastic hybrid microfluidic device for rapid nucleic acid extraction and amplification of DNA on a low cost platform
Ruth Mackay, Lecturer, Brunel University, United Kingdom
A low cost isothermal and detection platform is presented with a novel paper/plastic hybrid microfluidic cartridge for the extraction, amplification and fluorescent detection of pathogenic DNA in a single chamber. | 15:05 | All in One - Advanced technologies for complex low cost microfluidic devices
Alexander Schilling, CEO, Little Things Factory, Germany
| 15:30 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | |
Lab-on-a-Chip - Moving Towards Commercialisation |
| | 16:15 | Speed-up Microfluidics Product Development
Zhiping Wang, Director, Singapore Institute Of Manufacturing Technology A''STAR, Singapore
| 16:40 | Development of a Handheld DNA Sequencer & the Internet of Life
Jonathan O'Halloran, Chief Scientific Officer/Co Founder, QuantuMDx Group Ltd, United Kingdom
QuantuMDx is developing a mobile, handheld DNA sequencing device to provide diagnosis in under 15 minutes for a few pounds by the patient’s side for infectious disease, PGx and tumour profiling applications. We expect to roll these devices out throughout resource limited areas and network the disease data, enabling a real-time epidemiology platform we call the 'Internet of Life'™ that will prevent disease outbreaks from spreading to pandemics. | 17:05 | Microfluidic technologies for point-of-care diagnostic and organ-on-a-chip applications: from concepts to products
Claudia Gärtner, CEO, microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Germany
We have developed a strategy using modularized microfluidic devices as well as hardware modules in order to speed up the development of highly integrated microfluidics-enabled products for diagnostics and the life sciences. | 17:30 | How to make your lab-on-a-chip technology investment ready
Erol Harvey, Chief Executive Officer, MiniFAB, Australia
On too many occasions exciting technologies have failed in realizing their full potential, ending up in the "valley of death". This presentation will discuss strategies for attracting investment to Lab-on-a-chip technologies, enabling the transition from bench-top to real-world products. | 18:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION - “ What will be the killer lab-on-a-chip products, and how can we move faster to have such products in the market?”
| 18:30 | Evening Drinks Reception in the Club House | 19:30 | End of Day One |
Friday, 21 November 201408:00 | Registration & Coffee | 09:00 |  | Keynote Presentation Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Biomedical Applications Using Microfluidic Devices
Manabu Tokeshi, Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan
Microfluidic devices have great potential for medical and life science applications.
Recent progresses in microfluidic devices have enabled precise analysis of a small amount of proteins and drugs in blood or urine.
We have developed that several immunoassay systems using the microfluidic devices for rapid diagnosis of biomakers.
In this presentation, I will present about several topics: on-chip immunoassay using hydrogel pillar structures, on-chip therapeutic drug monitoring, and so forth. Moreover, future challenges and potentials of microfluidic devices for biotechnology, medicine, and clinical diagnostics will be also discussed. |
| 09:50 |  | Keynote Presentation Microfluidic Platforms for Human Diseases: From Diagnosis to Therapeutics
Chwee Teck Lim, NUS Society Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Microfluidics has been shown to be a very useful platform in the detection and diagnosis of human diseases as it is fast, sensitive and requires very small amount of samples and reagents.
Here, we will showcase several microfluidic biochips that we have developed to detect and diagnose cancer as well as bacterial infection from the blood of patients. We will also demonstrate how some of these microfluidic devices can be further developed into platforms for therapeutic purposes such as for blood cleansing.
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| 10:40 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | |
Point-of-Care Diagnostics |
| | 11:15 | Multiplexed Infectious Disease Testing - Sound Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Jonathan Cooper, The Wolfson Chair of Bioengineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
| 11:40 | Microfluidics Based Cassette for Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnosis
Ruige Wu, Research Scientist, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
A microfluidics based device has been developed for point-of-case diagnosis of infectious diseases, which integrates the whole process of molecular diagnosis into one handheld cassette, including reagent storage, sample metering, cell lysis, DNA extraction, PCR, etc. "sample-in, result-out" assay can be realized using the developed cassette in 15 minutes. | 12:05 | Development of Automatic Blood Aspiration Systems using Active and Passive Method for Point-of-care Diagnostic
Fang Ming Lim, Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore, Singapore
This presentation presents the development of a system to aspire specific, minute amount of blood for the purpose of automatic and periodic measurement of blood glucose level in operating room and intensive care unit scenarios. | 12:30 |  Technology Spotlight:
Micronit Microfluidics – Technology Highlights
Ronny van't Oever, Managing Director, Micronit Microfluidics
| 12:45 | Technology Spotlight:
Lab-on-Chip for Point-of-Care applications
Mark Olde Riekerink, Senior R&D Manager, Micronit Microfluidics
| 12:55 | Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | |
Microfluidics Manufacturing Technology |
| | 14:15 | Rapid prototyping of polymer nanofluidic lab on chip devices for DNA manipulation and large scale sequencing
Jeroen A. van Kan, Professor, Centre for Ion Beam Applications, Physics Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| 14:40 | Alternative Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies for Microfluidics Manufacturing
Gerald Kreindl, Business Development Manager, EV Group, Austria
Alternative semiconductor micro- and nanofabrication techniques such as nanoimprint enable the scientific and medical community to expand the applications of already-existing devices through miniaturization, massive parallel manufacturing and alternnative material processing such as plastics. | 15:05 | Laser microprocessing for microfluidics application
Zhongke Wang , Research Scientist, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A*Star, Singapore
| 15:30 | Exploration of Digital Light Projection Stereolithography to Fabricate Microfluidic Chips with Fine Features
Florencia Edith Wiria, Research Scientist, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), A*STAR, Singapore
| 15:55 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | 16:15 | Competition Prize draw at the SIMTech Booth in the Exhibition Hall. (In front of the main Auditorium) | 16:40 | Tour of SIMTech Facilities | 18:00 | Close of Conference |
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