Advances in Microfluidics & Lab-on-a-Chip - Virtual Event Agenda

Lab-on-Chip Platform Technologies for Point-of-Care Testing and Cell Culturing
Mark Olde Riekerink, Senior Business Development Manager, Micronit Microtechnologies BV, Netherlands

After a brief company overview, this presentation focuses on recent advances in platform technologies developed at Micronit for applications within point-of-care diagnostics and cell culturing. A few examples of demonstrators developed within research projects are presented to illustrate the applicability of the developed technologies.

Automation, Miniaturization and Integration of Lab-on-a-Chip Systems for Cell Analysis
Peter Ertl, Senior Scientist, Austrian Institute Of Technology, Austria

In course of the presentation various components including microvalves, micropumps, degassers and sensing systems for lab-on-a-chip will be presented as well as their potential for automated, miniaturized and integrated multilevel cell analysis will be discussed.

Pathogen analysis on Chip: Sample Enrichment, Preparation and Detection
Gerald Urban, Professor, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany

We use special microfluidic lab-on-chip chip based systems structures for oligonucleotide based pathogen detection assays. Enrichment, lysis, purification and isothermal amplification of cell specific oligonucleotides can be done on chip without moving parts and using only 5µl analyte volumes. The biological targets are small RNA biomarkers, which are very selective to identify bacteria as well as viruses. To achieve such tasks the integration of phaseguide structures in a microfluidic device are mandatory for performing free flow electrophoresis, gel electrophoresis and electrothermal lysis on chip.

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The Complexity Challenge in Microfluidic Product Development
Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Germany

As microfluidic is becoming an integral enabling technology for almost any new product development in the life sciences, it is important to look at the technological challenges in the implementation process and to find the technical solutions to problems like microfluidic circuit development, heterogeneous material assembly or reagent integration.

Advanced Centrifugal Microfluidics for Point-of-Care Applications
Roland Zengerle, Professor, University of Freiburg, Germany

We demonstrate sample-to-answer assays for Point-of-Care applications by using centrifugal microfluidics. Additionally we show advanced centrifugal unit operations like integrated pneumatic pumping and the merging of droplet microfluidics with centrifugal microfluidics for digital amplification assays.

Interfacing Structures and Functions for Organs-on-a-Chip
Yi-Chin Toh, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore

This talk will discuss the engineering of multicellular tissue structures as a means to enhance cellular functions in organs-on-a-chip. We utilized a 3D microfluidic cell culture system and manipulated cell-cell interactions and cell-matrix interactions to control the dynamics of liver bile canaliculi formation and alignment of cardiac tissues.

Digital Microfluidic Sample Processing for Separations and Mass Spectrometry
Chang Liu, Fellow Researcher , The University of Toronto, United States of America

We demonstrated a fast sample preparation process for LC-MS analysis based on digital microfluidics (DMF). In addition, we developed a new method for the direct in-line interfacing of DMF with LC-MS.