Sunday
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4:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 7:40 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
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7:40 pm - 9:30 pm |
Point of Care Technologies
Discussion Leader: Richard Crooks (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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7:40 pm - 8:10 pm |
David Issadore (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Hybrid Microelectronic/Microfluidic Chips for Rare Cell and Rare Exosome Detection Directly in Blood"
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8:10 pm - 8:35 pm |
Discussion
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8:35 pm - 9:05 pm |
Paul Yager (University of Washington, USA)
"Better/Faster/Cheaper POC NAATs — Pick Three"
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9:05 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Monday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Nucleic Acid Analysis and Next Generation Sequencing
Discussion Leader: Nicole Pamme (University of Hull, United Kingdom)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Adam Abate (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Quantitative Biology with High Throughput Droplet Microfluidics"
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9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Rajiv Bharadwaj (10x Genomics, USA)
"Changing the Definition of Sequencing Drop by Drop"
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11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Yanyi Huang (Peking University, China)
"Microfluidic Single Cell Sequencing"
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Free Time
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm |
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Maribel Vazquez (City College of New York, USA) and Catherine Klapperich (Boston University, USA)
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Fields, Forces, and Flows
Discussion Leader: Jonathan Posner (University of Washington, USA)
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6:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Minami Yoda (Georgia Institute of Technology , USA)
"Near-Wall Dynamics of Suspended Colloidal Particles in Microscale Shear and Electrokinetic Flow"
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6:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
Discussion
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7:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian (Iowa State University, USA)
"Inertial Fluid Flow Sculpting: Computational Methods and Applications"
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7:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
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Tuesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Group Photo
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Flow-Structure Interactions
Discussion Leader: David Sinton (University of Toronto, Canada)
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9:00 am - 9:25 am |
Chang-Jin Kim (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Drag Reduction: Microfluidics for Macro Application"
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9:25 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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9:45 am - 10:10 am |
Pier-Luca Maffettone (Universita degli Studi di Napoli , Italy)
"An Open Issue in Viscoelastic Microfluidics: Multiparticle Dynamics"
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10:10 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Coffee Break
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11:00 am - 11:25 am |
Carolyn Ren (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"Microwave Assisted Droplet Sensing, Heating and Mixing and Image Analysis Assisted Droplet Manipulation"
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11:25 am - 11:45 am |
Discussion
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11:45 am - 12:10 pm |
Amy Shen (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
"Elastic and Inertial Instabilities in Microfluidic Flows"
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Free Time
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Wearable and Implantable Systems
Discussion Leader: Jeff Tza-Huei Wang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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6:00 pm - 6:40 pm |
Ellis Meng (University of Southern California, USA)
"Wet Implantable Microsensors"
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6:40 pm - 7:00 pm |
Discussion
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7:00 pm - 7:40 pm |
Sumita Pennathur (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Untethering Diabetes Through Innovative Engineering"
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7:40 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
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Wednesday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Cell Mechanics
Discussion Leader: John Oakey (University of Wyoming , USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Jianping Fu (University of Michigan, USA)
"Mechanobiology, Pluripotent Stem Cells, and Early Embryonic Development"
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9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Jochen Guck (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
"Feeling for Cell Function: Morpho-Rheological Phenotyping at 1,000 Cells/Sec"
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11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Wilbur Lam (Emory University / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Cellular Mechanics of Hematologic Processes and Diseases"
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Free Time
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
Logic and Computational Design
Discussion Leader: Frances Ligler (North Carolina State University / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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6:00 pm - 6:30 pm |
Douglas Densmore (Boston University, USA)
"Fluigi: Hardware, Software, and Wetware Automated Design for Synthetic Biology"
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6:30 pm - 7:00 pm |
Discussion
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7:00 pm - 7:30 pm |
Elliot Hui (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Computation and Control by Microfluidic Logic"
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7:30 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
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Thursday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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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
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9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Living Systems
Discussion Leader: Elain Fu (Oregon State University, USA)
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9:00 am - 9:30 am |
Roman Stocker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Microbe-Fluidics"
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9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Coffee Break
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Maribel Vazquez (City College of New York, USA)
"Microfluidics for the Visual System"
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11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Discussion
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Active Matter in Microchannels"
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm |
Discussion
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Free Time
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
3D Printing
Discussion Leader: James Sterling (Keck Graduate Institute, USA)
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6:00 pm - 6:40 pm |
Albert Folch (University of Washington, USA)
"Microfluidics: The Gap Betweeen Academia and Manufacturing"
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6:40 pm - 7:00 pm |
Discussion
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7:00 pm - 7:40 pm |
Noah Malmstadt (University of Southern California, USA)
"Applications of 3D-Printed Microfluidics: Nanomanufacturing and Biomarker Detection"
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7:40 pm - 8:00 pm |
Discussion
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8:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Dinner
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Friday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am |
Departure
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