Tingrui Pan,
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
University of California-Davis
Prof. Tingrui Pan is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis. Leading the Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Group, his research interests span a wide range of topics in bioengineering, including flexible sensing/wearable technologies, microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip, biomanufacturing/nanofabrication, mobile and personalized medicine. Prof. Pan has been known for inventing a new category of force/pressure sensors, known as Flexible IonTronic Sensors (FITS), with the highest reported pressure-to-capacitance sensitivity and the largest signal-to-noise ratio, utilizing an elastic electronic double layer interface, both highly essential to dynamic wearable environments. The medical applications have been extended to non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring, body gesture and motion tracking, as well as pressure feedbacks on medical instruments. Prof. Pan has authored over 100 refereed publications, received more than $20 million federal and private research funding, and held more than 20 US patents/patent applications. His translational activities leads to formation of five high-tech startup companies and more than 10 of his co-inventions have been successfully licensed. Prof. Pan is the founding Director of UC Davis Global Research and Education in Advanced Technologies (GREAT) Program, a university flagship outreach program, which recruits and trains elite undergraduate students from all over the world in cutting-edge technology fields at UC Davis. He is an elected Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Microfluidic Printing: From Combinatorial Drug Screening to Artificial Cell Assaying
Tuesday, 27 September 2016 at 16:15
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Microfluidic impact printing has been recently introduced, benefiting
from the nature of simple device architecture, low cost,
non-contamination, scalable multiplexability and high throughput. In
this talk, we will review this novel microfluidic-based droplet
generation platform, utilizing modular microfluidic cartridges and
expandable combinatorial printing capacity controlled by plug-and-play
multiplexed actuators. Such a customizable microfluidic printing system
allows for ultrafine control of the droplet volume from picoliters
(~10pL) to nanoliters (~100nL), a 10,000 fold variation. The high
flexibility of droplet manipulations can be simply achieved by
controlling the magnitude of actuation (e.g., driving voltage) and the
waveform shape of actuation pulses, in addition to nozzle size
restrictions. Detailed printing characterizations on these parameters
have been conducted consecutively. A multichannel impact printing system
has been prototyped and demonstrated to provide the functions of
single-droplet jetting and droplet multiplexing as well as concentration
gradient generation. Moreover, several enabling chemical and biological
assays have been implemented and validated on this highly automated and
flexible printing platform. In brief, the microfluidic impact printing
system could be of potential value to establishing multiplexed droplet
assays for high-throughput life science researchers.
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