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SELECTBIO Conferences Innovations in Flow Cytometry 2023

Dino Di Carlo's Biography



Dino Di Carlo, Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine, Professor and Vice Chair of Bioengineering, University of California-Los Angeles

Dino Di Carlo received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco in 2006. From 2006-2008 he conducted postdoctoral studies in the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA since 2008 and now as Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering serves as the Vice Chair of the Department and as the director of the Cancer Nanotechnology Program in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research pioneered the use of inertial fluid dynamic effects for the control, separation, and analysis of cells in microfluidic devices. His recent work extends into numerous other fields of biomedicine and biotechnology including directed evolution, cell analysis for rapid diagnostics, new amplified molecular assays, next generation biomaterials, and phenotypic drug screening. He has also been a leader in technology entrepreneurship: He co-founded and currently serves on the board of directors of five companies that are commercializing UCLA intellectual property developed in his lab (CytoVale, Vortex Biosciences, Tempo Therapeutics, Forcyte Biotechnologies and Ferrologix). Among other honors he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2016, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development award and the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award, the Packard Fellowship and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, and received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award and Coulter Translational Research Award.

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Functional Flow Cytometry with Lab on a Particle Technologies

Thursday, 4 May 2023 at 09:30

Add to Calendar ▼2023-05-04 09:30:002023-05-04 10:30:00Europe/LondonFunctional Flow Cytometry with Lab on a Particle TechnologiesInnovations in Flow Cytometry 2023 in SeattleSeattleSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

The ultimate limits of measurement in biology are the “quantum” units that convey information, e.g. single nucleic acids, proteins, and cells. Microfluidics has emerged as a powerful tool to compartmentalize single cells and molecules into sub-nanoliter droplets as individual bioreactors to enable sensitive detection and analysis down to this quantum limit. However, the current systems for quantum assays have not been widely adopted, partly due to the requirement of specialized instruments and microfluidic chips to generate uniform droplets and perform adequate manipulations.  I will discuss the platforms we are developing to perform quantum assays using standard flow cytometers and fluorescence activated cell sorters.  “Lab on a particle” technology enables functional screening of T cell receptors based on the cytokine secretion of single T cells, the selection of colonies of yeast or bacteria based on growth and the production of high value bio-products, and the development of directed evolution workflows for protein biosensors.


Add to Calendar ▼2023-05-04 00:00:002023-05-05 00:00:00Europe/LondonInnovations in Flow Cytometry 2023Innovations in Flow Cytometry 2023 in SeattleSeattleSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com