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Day One - 15 May

07:30	Registration
08:30	Microfabrication and Engineering Chaired by Igor Mezic, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
08:35	Active, Universal Particle Micromanipulators: CPUs for Microfluidics Igor Mezic, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Lab-on-a-Chip devices contain separate designs for functions such as concentration, separation and mixing. A device that performs these functions within a single enclosure, using software-based changes, emulating the role of the CPU in computers will be presented.
09:05	Microfluidic Device for Point-Of-Care Radiopharmaceutical Synthesis Arkadij Elizarov, Senior Scientist, Siemens Molecular Imaging A microfluidic device involving a combination of rigid and elactomeric parts optimized for multi-step radio-synthesis of PET probes sufficient for human imaging is presented. It achieves efficiency from high concentration of radio-isotopes and has a range of clinical and R&D applications.
09:35	Centrifugal Platform for Process Automation, Integration, Miniaturization and Parallelisation in the Life Sciences Jens Ducrée, Group Leader, University of Freiburg Centrifugal technologies for the integration, automation, parallelization and miniaturization of typical life-science protocols will be surveyed. Full process chains ranging from sample preparation to detection can thus be run on a single, application-specific substrate (“disk”) actuated by a multi-purpose device (“player”).
10:05	Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Hall
10:50	Micro-Pixellated Flip-Chip Light Emitting Diodes Integrated with Silicon Drivers and Detectors for On-Chip Multiplexed Analysis Chris Griffin, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Strathclyde Developments in micro-pixellated light-emitting diode arrays that can be designed to emit spectrally-selective output at any wavelength in the UV to blue and green range will be described. The devices to be reported are ‘flip-chipped’ and have potential in many areas of optical lab-on-a-chip.
11:20	Break to join the main auditorium for the Plenary Session
11:30	Plenary Lecture Chaired by Andreas Manz, Head Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (ISAS)
	Genomics: From Medicine to the Environment Craig Venter, Founder and President, J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation
12:30	Lunch and Networking in Exhibition Hall
13:30	Poster Viewing
14:10	Point-of-Care Diagnostics Chaired by Andrew deMello, Professor, Imperial College
14:15	Microfluidic Approaches to Point-of-Care Diagnostics Andrew deMello, Professor, Imperial College Introducing some of the key features and benefits of microfluidic systems and describing the use of such devices for performing ultra-fast biological analysis.
14:45	Lab-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Pill: Extending Analytical Technologies to Remote Diagnostic Sensing Jon Cooper, Chair in Bioelectronics, University of Glasgow Engineering challenges associated with integrating new sensor formats into microfluidics in order to provide new analytical platforms will be described. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring the development of Lab-on-a-Chip and Lab-on-a-Pill technologies for biological screening and diagnostic sensing applications.
15:15	Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Hall
16:00	Microfluidic Low-Cost Chip-Based Systems for Medical Applications Göran Stemme, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) The combination of silicon MEMS technology fabrication techniques and novel low cost materials can be utilized to make disposable low cost devices for biomedical diagnostics and therapies. Examples of such devices with a special focus on ultra-miniaturized low cost chip-based systems will be detailed.
16:30	Towards Stochastic Molecular Sensing: The RECEPTRONICS Project Marco Tartagni, Team Leader, University of Bologna - Campus of Cesena The RECEPTRONICS project, funded by the European Commission, aimed at developing a biomimetic approach for molecular recognition based on nanosensor arrays. Objectives, challenges and results will be described.
17:00	Direct mRNA Quantitation from Human Samples Using Dynamic Arrays Bob Jones, Executive Vice President Research and Development, Fluidigm Corporation Dynamic Arrays for Real-Time qPCR - Fluidigm has introduced nanofluidic chips called dynamic arrays, which provide experiment density in a class with microarrays yet consume orders of magnitude less sample and reagents compared to microplates.
17:30	Drinks Reception compliments of Lab-on-a-Chip.com

Day Two - 16 May

09:30	Life Science Applications Chaired by Elisabeth Verpoorte, Chair, Pharmaceutical Analysis Group, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen
09:35	Applications of Microfluidics in Chemistry and Biotechnology Mark Gilligan, Managing Director - Syrris, Ltd. and Dolomite, Ltd. The Dolomite Centre is a microfluidics application Centre specialising in design and development of microdevices to solve customers' problems. Automated flow chemistry instruments will be shown utilising micro-mixer, pulsed flow and liquid-liquid extraction components. Micro-format DNA and electrophoresis applications will also be addressed.
10:05	Development of a Lab-on-a-Chip for the Characterization of Human Cells Peter Ertl, Senior Scientist, Nano-System-Technologies, ARC-Seibersdorf research Research involving the development of microfluidic biochips capable of monitoring in real-time cellular phenotype dynamics by non-invasively assessing cell viability, reproduction and metabolic activity using different sensors on a common chip platform, will be presented.
10:35	Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Hall
11:20	Microfluidics for the Characterization of Drugs and their Effects Elisabeth Verpoorte, Chair, Pharmaceutical Analysis Group, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen The use of microfluidics for the development of advanced tools for cell-based analysis. A pharmacological study investigating the response of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVEC) in microchannels to known anti-inflammatory agents in a pro-inflammatory environment will be presented.
11:50	Novel Integrated Biochips for Highly Sensitive Real-Time Analyses of Biomolecules Based on Polymeric Materials Ross Rinaldi, Professor - Division Leader, National Nanotechnology Laboratory Approaches, based on polymeric materials and optical/electrical detection schemes, to implement novel integrated biochips for highly sensitive real-time analyses of biomolecules and developments of strategies for the immobilization and fabrication of biomolecules at nanoscale onto different materials will be described.
12:20	Printed Microwell Patterning for Cells and Microbeads Rong Zhang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh Arrays of microwells were generated on a polymer dual-layer coated glass slide. The size and the depth of the microwells could be controlled by adjusting printing parameters and choice of solvent. Microwells were obtained which allowed cells and microbead patterning.
12:50	Lunch and Networking in Exhibition Hall
13:30	Poster Viewing
14:10	Monitoring of Synthetic Neuronal Networks by an Integrated Patch-Clamp Chip Christophe Py, Senior Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada The development of an integrated patch-clamp chip that monitors the activity of individual neurons organized in a synthetic network will be described. The chip consists of a guidance layer, micro-holes fabricated in a suspended membrane and subterranean microfluidics.
14:40	“Lab on a Chip” for Chemistry and Systems Biology Andreas Manz, Head Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (ISAS) Microfluidic chips have been developed and applied to various fields. The presentation will briefly review scaling laws, show examples of microfluidic chips for electrophoresis, elaborate on work-in-progress with cell differentiation and give an example of how mishaps turn out to be quite interesting.
15:10	Coffee Break and Poster Ceremony
15:45	Microchip for Single Cell Analysis : Trapping Cells by Gravity Herman Walgraeve, Researcher, Technical University Delft Experiments with nanotiterplates indicate that gravity can be used as driving force for a single cell trapping device. Results of the development of a microchip for single cell trapping are presented.
16:15	Towards a Microfluidic Cell Culture and Detection Platform for Studying the Dynamics of Cellular Processes Jenny Emnéus, Professor, Department of Micro and Nanotechnology (MIC), Technical University of Denmark The research towards developing a microfluidic cell culturing and multi-parameter detection platform for the purpose of non-invasive real time studies of the dynamics of stem cell proliferation and differentiation into specific neuronal phenotypes will be presented.
16:45	Close of Conference