Terry Conlisk,
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
The Ohio State University
Professor Conlisk received his PhD from Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering in 1978 and joined the Faculty of The Ohio State University in 1980 after a two-year adjunct professorship at Lehigh University. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas in the areas of micro and nanofluidics, helicopter aerodynamics, and complex flows driven by vortices. Currently, his main research interests are developing models for ionic and biomolecular transport through nanotubes and channels for design of devices used for rapid molecular analysis, sensing, drug delivery and other applications. His book The Essentials of Micro and Nanofluidics with Application to the Biological and Chemical Sciences was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.
Engineering Biology: The Unifying Role of Micro- and Nanofluidics in the Science of Biomedical Nanodevices
Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 10:00
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-29 10:00:002015-09-29 11:00:00Europe/LondonEngineering Biology: The Unifying Role of Micro- and Nanofluidics in the Science of Biomedical NanodevicesLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Micro/nanofluidic “Labs on a Chip” (LOC) incorporate the contents of an entire chemistry laboratory onto a single chip a few square inches in area. The art of designing micro and nanodevices requires a knowledge base of fluid flow and mass transfer (biofluids are usually multicomponent mixtures), electrostatics, electrokinetics, electrochemistry and molecular biology. It is thus micro and nanofluidics that unifies these various disciplines. In this presentation, the role of micro and nanofluidics in the transport of charged species typical in an LOC is explored; the working fluid is an electrically conducting, electrolyte mixture such as sodium-chloride and water. Two examples are described. First, we investigate DNA transport in a converging nanopore for sensing and sequencing and other applications. Second, we discuss the major technical barriers in ensuring the retention of albumin, yet allowing the transport of small ions through a synthetic nanopore membrane that acts as a simplified model for an artificial kidney. Both examples illustrate the major role micro- and nanofluidics plays in modern biological and biochemical systems.
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-28 00:00:002015-09-30 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World CongressLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-29 10:00:002015-09-29 11:00:00Europe/LondonEngineering Biology: The Unifying Role of Micro- and Nanofluidics in the Science of Biomedical NanodevicesLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
