Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Point of Care Technologies
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Hybrid Microelectronic/Microfluidic Chips for Rare Cell and Rare Exosome Detection Directly in Blood"
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
"Better/Faster/Cheaper POC NAATs — Pick Three"
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nucleic Acid Analysis and Next Generation Sequencing
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Quantitative Biology with High Throughput Droplet Microfluidics"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Changing the Definition of Sequencing Drop by Drop"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Microfluidic Single Cell Sequencing"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fields, Forces, and Flows
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Near-Wall Dynamics of Suspended Colloidal Particles in Microscale Shear and Electrokinetic Flow"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
"Inertial Fluid Flow Sculpting: Computational Methods and Applications"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Flow-Structure Interactions
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Drag Reduction: Microfluidics for Macro Application"
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
"An Open Issue in Viscoelastic Microfluidics: Multiparticle Dynamics"
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Microwave Assisted Droplet Sensing, Heating and Mixing and Image Analysis Assisted Droplet Manipulation"
11:25 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"Elastic and Inertial Instabilities in Microfluidic Flows"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wearable and Implantable Systems
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
"Wet Implantable Microsensors"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
"Untethering Diabetes Through Innovative Engineering"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Mechanobiology, Pluripotent Stem Cells, and Early Embryonic Development"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Feeling for Cell Function: Morpho-Rheological Phenotyping at 1,000 Cells/Sec"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Cellular Mechanics of Hematologic Processes and Diseases"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Logic and Computational Design
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Fluigi: Hardware, Software, and Wetware Automated Design for Synthetic Biology"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
"Computation and Control by Microfluidic Logic"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Microfluidics for the Visual System"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Active Matter in Microchannels"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
"Microfluidics: The Gap Betweeen Academia and Manufacturing"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
"Applications of 3D-Printed Microfluidics: Nanomanufacturing and Biomarker Detection"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure