Sunday
2:00 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
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Synthesis
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"From Accelerated Chemistry to 'Designer' Drug Products in Microfluidic Factories"
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
"Synthesis and Analysis Using Advanced Flow Chemistry"
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Quantitative Biology and Biophysics
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Single Cells: How Can We Analyze Them, How Can We Mimic Them?"
9:30 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:25 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:25 am - 10:55 am
"All-Optical Laser Scanning Imaging for Deep and Large-Scale Image Based Single Cell Analysis"
10:55 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am
"Towards Robust Routine Urinalysis and Microscopy"
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"Microfluidics for Imaging and Sequencing Single Cells"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Energy and the Environment
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Water Desalination Using Energy Storage and Conversion Systems: Opportunities and Novel Functionalities"
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Interactions of Emulsion Drops and Gas Bubbles in Complex Fluids"
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Systems and Synthetic Biology
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Microfluidics for High-Throughput, Quantitative Biophysics and Biochemistry"
9:25 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Droplet Microfluidics in Antibody Discovery, Immune Repertoire Sequencing and Personalized Cancer Therapy"
10:20 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am - 11:45 am
"Mammalian Synthetic Biology: Foundations and Therapeutic Applications"
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"The Alignment Fate of Endothelial Cell Micropatterns Under Confined Shear Flow"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Poster Session
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
"3D Printed Bioelectronics and Biomedical Devices"
4:25 pm - 4:50 pm
Discussion
4:50 pm - 5:15 pm
"Testis-on-Chip: Ex Vivo Culture of Human Testis Tissues in Microfluidic Devices"
5:15 pm - 5:40 pm
Discussion
5:40 pm - 5:50 pm
"Engineering Heterotypic Cellular Interactions for Disease Modeling and Drug Testing"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Fundamental and Applied Physicochemical Hydrodynamics
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Electrokinetics! What Is It Good For? Unconventional Applications of Electrokinetics"
9:30 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:20 am
"Migration of an Electrophoretic Particle in a Weakly Inertial or Viscoelastic Shear Flow"
10:20 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am - 11:45 am
"Electric Field Control of DNA Hybridization Reactions"
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"Water Purification and Colloid Separation via Exclusion Zone Formation in Microfluidic Devices"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Additive and Advanced Manufacturing
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
"3D Printing of Complex, Three-Dimensional, Microfluidic Architectures for Bioassays"
7:55 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm
"Applications of 3D Printing in Microfluidics"
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
"High Impact Microfluidics and MicroTAS Under Pressure: Building Robust MicroTAS for Operation in Extreme Conditions"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Microfluidic Systems for Digital Biological Measurements"
9:25 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Centrifugal Microfluidics for Precision Medicine"
10:20 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am - 11:45 am
"The Microfluidic Defense: On-Chip Studying of the Human Immune System"
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
"Microfluidics for Spatially Resolved Analysis of Immunity in Intact Tissues"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Complex Flow Systems: Multiphase Flows and Colloids
4:00 pm - 4:25 pm
"Evolution of a Particle Coating on a Confined Fluid Interface"
4:25 pm - 4:50 pm
Discussion
4:50 pm - 5:15 pm
"The Pulse of Plants: The Physics and Biology of Evapotranspiration"
5:15 pm - 5:40 pm
Discussion
5:40 pm - 5:50 pm
"Microfluidic Probes: Cell Separation, Manipulation and Analysis in Open Microfluidic Systems"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure