Friday, 27 September 2013

08:00

Registration


Tentative Agenda

08:50

Welcome Address

09:00

M.N. VidyashankarPlenary Presentation

Inaugural Address
M.N. Vidyashankar, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnatka, India

10:10

Coffee Break and Networking


Desigining Chips for Clinical Diagnostics

10:40

Omar PerezKeynote Presentation

Integrating Companion Diagnostics into Clinical Drug Development: Crizotinib Case study
Omar Perez, Associate Director, Pfizer Inc, United States of America

11:20

Krishnendu ChakrabartyKeynote Presentation

Digital Microfluidics: Designing Biochips for Clinical Diagnostics
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Professor, Duke University, United States of America

12:00

Nano on Micro - Nanostructured Microdevices for Bio and Environmental Sensing
Soumyo Mukherji, Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay, India

12:30

Poster Session

12:50

Lunch Break and Networking


Microfluidics Based Systems

13:50

Suman ChakrabortyKeynote Presentation

Biomicrofluidics: A Journey with DNAs, Cells, and Painless Microneedles
Suman Chakraborty, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

14:30

The Microfluidic Toolbox – A Fast Track towards Integrated Lab-on-a-Chip Systems
Aria Farjam, Vice President, Microfluidic Chipshop GmbH, Germany

15:00

Fundamentals and Applications of Droplet Based Microfluidics
Ashis Sen, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

15:30

Flow Behavior in Microfluidic Immunosensors
Siddhartha Panda, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, India

16:00

Coffee Break and Networking

16:20

Non-Conventional Methods of Fabricating Microfluidic and Paper-Microfluidic Devices and their Applications
Amit Asthana, Principal Scientist, Centre for Cellular And Molecular Biology, India

16:50

Presentation by Poster Presenters

17:10

End of the Day

18:30

Drinks Reception

Saturday, 28 September 2013


Technological Advances in Microfluidic Systems Part-1

09:20

Integrated Micro-Opto-Fluidic Systems and their Applications
T Srinivas, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

09:50

Glass-based Microfluidics for Fabrication of Micro and Nano Materials
Venkat Gundabala, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India

10:20

Coffee Break and Networking


Technological Advances in Microfluidic Systems Part-2

10:40

Turbulent Mixing in a Microchannel
V Kumaran, Professor, Indian Institute Of Science, India

11:10

Microfabricated Imaging Flow Cytometry
Sai Siva Gorthi, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

11:40

Design of Compact Imaging Flow Cytometer for Clinical Diagnostics
Rajagopal Niranjani, Project Assistant, Indian Institute of Science, India


Medical and Biomedical Applications of Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

12:00

Kailash GuptaKeynote Presentation

Heterobiofunctional Regents for the Construction of Oligonucleotide Arrays (biochips) for Biomedical applications
Kailash Gupta, Director, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, India

12:40

Diagnostics and Medical Applications covering Cancer and Nanotechnology
Gopal Kundu, Scientist F, National Centre for Cell Sciences, India

13:10

Microfluidics Based Cell Culture for Research and High Throughput Drug Screening
Dhananjay Bodas, Scientist, Agharkhar Research Institute, India

13:40

Lunch Break and Networking


Point of Care Devices in Clinical Diagnostics

14:40

Ananth RaoKeynote Presentation

Point of Care Testing
Ananth Rao, Senior Consultant, Apollo hospitals, India

15:20

A Novel Lab-on-Chip Device for Point-of-Care
Vijay Mathur, Head of R & D, DiaSys Diagnostics India Pvt. Ltd , India

15:50

Coffee Break and Networking

16:10

Opto-Electronic Strategies for Colloidal Assembly and Imaging: Toolbox for Biomolecular Diagnostics
Shalini Gupta, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

16:40

Microfluidic Technologies for Point-of- Care Diagnostics
Srinivasan Kandaswamy, Group Lead, Achira Labs, India

17:10

End of the Conference