Session Chair: Charles Yang Chun, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
08:50
Plenary Presentation Microfluidics Manufacturing and Beyond Zhiping Wang, Director
09:30
Plenary Presentation Introduction for IVD customers’ needs Johnson Zhang, Vice President And General Manager
10:10
Plenary Presentation Drop-based microfluidics for diagnostics research David Weitz, Professor
10:50
Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibit Hall
T1D1S1: Particle and Cell Manipulation I
Session Chair: Jonathan Cooper, The Wolfson Chair of Bioengineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
11:30
Microfluidic cell trap array for the precise positioning of single cells Chwee Teck Lim, NUS Society Chair Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
11:50
High throughput cell separation by a micropore-array filter Wei Wang, Associate Professor, Peking University
12:10
Sized-based rare cells isolation by microfilters Chia-Pin Chang, Scientist, Institute of Microelectronics A*STAR
12:30
Lunch, Poster Session and Networking in Exhibit Hall
T1D1S2: Cell Culture
Session Chair: Anderson Shum, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
13:40
Real-time monitoring of specific oxygen uptake rates of embryonic stem cells in a microfluidic cell culture device Nicolas Szita, Professor, University College London
14:00
Engineered synergistic growth factor microenvironments Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University Of Glasgow
14:20
On-Chip Adipocyte Culture Yunxiao Liu, Scientist, A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics
14:40
A pump free 3D microfluidic cell culture platform Yi-Chin Toh, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
15:00
On-chip immune cell culture and cytokine detection Patthara Kongsuphol, Scientist, Institute Of Microelectronics
15:20
Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibit Hall
T1D1S3: Droplet Manipulation
Session Chair: Sehyun Shin, Professor & Director, Nano-Biofluignostic Engineering Research Center, Korea University and Anam/Guro Hospital of Korea University, Korea South
16:00
Synthesis and Assembly Biomimetic Heterogeneous Microcomponents on an Electro-Microfluidic Platform Shih Kang Fan, Professor, National Taiwan University
16:20
Droplet-based single-cell culture coupled with smartphone imaging for portable and rapid bacteria quantification Bo Ma, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16:40
Single Cell Trapping, Monitoring and Retrieving of Functional Nasal Epithelial Cells for Toxicological Studies Charles Wang Wei, Research Scientist, Singapore Institute Of Manufacturing Technology
17:00
Ultrathin shelled capsules and responsive microfibers via non-confined microfluidics Ankur Chaurasia, Student, King's College London
17:20
Drinks Reception
Friday, 20 November 2015
08:00
Registration & Coffee
Plenary Session
08:50
Plenary Presentation Optofluidics and Optical Force for Nano-manipulation and Sorting Ai Qun Liu, Professor
09:30
Plenary Presentation Advanced Nanosystems for Diagnostic Applications Jackie Ying, Executive Director
10:10
Plenary Presentation Recent Advances in Sensor Technologies for Mobile Healthcare Christopher Lowe, Professor
10:50
Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibit Hall
T1D2S1: Lab-on-a-Chip - Moving Towards Commercialisation
11:30
Microfluidic technologies for Sample Preparation: Market & Technologies Analysis Benjamin Roussel, Business Unit Manager of the Microfluidic & Medical Technologies (MedTech), Yole Développement
11:50
Lab-on-a-Chip-Systems – Combining Chip, Instrument and Assay: A full Service Challenge Claudia Gärtner, CEO, microfluidic ChipShop GmbH
12:10
Perspectives on Standard Documents in Microfluidics Ratna Tantra, Senior Research Scientist , National Physical Laboratory
12:30
Lunch, Poster Session and Networking in Exhibit Hall
T1D2S2: Particle and Cell Manipulation II
Session Chair: Wenhui Wang, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
13:40
Particle and Cell Manipulation Using Surface Acoustic Waves Ye Ai, Associate Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design
14:00
Passive and Active Sorting and Manipulation of Soft Objects in Microflow Thomas Franke, Professor, University Of Glasgow
14:20
Silicon Based High Throughput Coulter Counter for Cells Sizing and Enumeration Yu Chen, Scientist, Institute of Microelectronics (IME) A*STAR
14:40
Bioparticles extraction by size using centrifugal microfluidics Joo Chuan Yeo, Research Engineer, Singapore Institute Of Manufacturing Technology
15:00
Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibit Hall
15:30
Poster Award Ceremony taking place at the SIMTech booth
T1D2S3: Organ-on-a-Chip
Session Chair: Yuejun Kang, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
15:40
Eye-mimicking microfluidic devices for clinical studies in ophthalmology Anderson Shum, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Director, Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre, University of Hong Kong
16:00
Microfluidic Environmental Control Technologies for Organ-on-a-chip Hiroshi Kimura, Professor, Micro/Nano Technology Center, Tokai University
16:20
A Novel Vertical Flow Bioreactor for Perfusion Culture Liang Zhu, Student, National University Of Singapore
16:40
On chip two-photon metabolic imaging for drug toxicity testing Fang Yu, Student, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology