Last month we had our biggest ever FluidicMEMS gathering of lab-on-a-chip folks as we heard Professor Robert Westervelt speak on programmable integrated circuit / microfluidic chips to manipulate biological cells and liquid droplets. Platforms like the one above could save time and money by automating resource-intensive biological tasks by individually trapping and moving large numbers of cells and droplets.
A huge thanks to co-organizers A.J. Kumar and Joost Bonsen, sponsor Maine Manufacturing and co-sponsor uFluidix for making the event possible. We were generously hosted by Microsoft at its New England Research & Development (N.E.R.D.) Center in Cambridge. If you’re interested in participating in or sponsoring an event like this, please drop us a line.
Professor Westervelt tells us about integrated circuit microfluidic chips.
Academic / medical / startup / industry crowd mingles.
FluidicMEMS organizers: A.J. Kumar, Lily Kim, and Joost Bonsen
For more:
- Check out the Westervelt research group’s homepage
- 2007 Lab on a Chip article: “Integrated circuit/microfluidic chip to programmably trap and move cells and droplets with dielectrophoresis”
- Video of thousands of yeast cells moving simultaneously in precisely coordinated motion (dancing!).
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- Catherine Klapperich speaks at November FluidicMEMS event
- FluidicMEMS March 2011 event: Tanya Kanigan reflects on lessons from BioTrove
- Claros Diagnostics speaks at 1st FluidicMEMS event
- Microfluidics can control how stem cells communicate
- FluidicMEMS May 2011 Event: Bill Rodriguez of Daktari Diagnostics
