Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Microscale Diagnostics in Cancer Research
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
"Bringing Microfluidics into the Clinic: Lessons from COVID19 and Cancer"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
"Single Biomarker Profiling for Medical Diagnostics"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm
"Microfluidic Formation, Manufacture and Assembly of Lab on a Particle Systems"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Microscale Molecular Biology and Imaging
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Imaging Flowing Cells in 3D with Point-Spread-Function Engineering"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Ultra High Throughput Screening with Droplet Microfluidics"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Bottom-Up Engineering of Synthetic Cells and Biomembranes Using Microfluidics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:10 am - 11:15 am
Discussion
11:15 am - 11:25 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:25 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Measuring Single-Cell Biology Using Microfluidic Precision"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
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
Single-Cell Transcriptomics and High-Throughput, Time-Resolved Microfluidics
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Innovations in Microfluidic Electroporation for Cell and EV Engineering"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Biological Discovery: Translating Microfluidics into Practice"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Single-Cell Mechano Sequencing"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Advancing Biology by Directly Interconnecting Robotic Images of Cells to their Single Cell Transcriptomes (IRIS)"
7:50 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
AI, Automation, and Computational Microfluidics
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Building Advanced In Vitro Models to Study Neuroinflammation in Retinal Diseases"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Advanced Sensing and Therapeutic Technologies for Healthcare Automation"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Passive Microfluidic Operations via Control of Viscoelastic Instabilities"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Integrating On-Chip Neuron Recordings and Transcriptomics to Reveal Chemical Sensors in C. Elegans through AI and Data Mining"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Data-Informed Cytometry and Droplet Microfluidics"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Making Sensing of Label-Free Optofluidic Single-Cell Imaging"
12:20 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 - 6:20 pm
"Bacterial Individuality in Stressful Environments"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Parallel Droplet Processing for Drug Discovery, Genomics, and Microbiomes"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Microfluidic Tools to Probe the Life Cycle of Oomycete Pathogens"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Droplet-Digital Microfluidics for Microbial Applications"
7:50 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
Microfluidics for Point-of-Care and Precision Health
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Engineering Fit-for-Purpose Affinity Reagents for Rapid Diagnostic Tests"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"Air-Gap Paper Analytical Devices"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Real-Time Monitoring of Chemical Biomarkers in Brain Disorders"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Wearable and Point-of-Care Devices for Women’s Health Needs"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"High-Throughput Single-Cell DNA and Protein Sequencing of the HIV Reservoir"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Enzyme Activity Assays and Minimally Instrumented Devices for Real Time Measurement of Medication Levels"
12:20 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
Paradigms in Diagnostics and Therapeutics
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Multi-Scale Modeling of Environmental Modulation in Multicellular Systems"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"Plasmonic Enhanced Optofluidic Interrogation in Diagnostics and Health Monitoring"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
"Bioengineering Scalability and Stability of Bacteriophage Antimicrobials"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Participant-Centric Sampling Tools for At-Home Blood and Saliva Collection: Probing Personalized Longitudinal Responses"
7:50 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(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Organoids to Tissues on a Chip
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Neurovascular in Vitro Models - Towards Disease Representation"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"It Takes Two to Print: Microfluidic-Assisted 3D Bioprinting for the Functional Assembly of Human Tissues"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Millifluidic Technologies to Grow and Culture Organoids"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Organs-on-a-Chip: A New Tool for Studying Human Physiology"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Cell-Cell Interactions in 3D Cultures Studied in Microfluidic Droplets"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Engineering Hearts-on-a-Chip with Vascularization and Innate Immunity"
12:20 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
Keynote Session: Single-Cell Mammalian Biology
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
"Precision Measurements with Double Emulsion and Single Virus Genomics"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
"From Flow Cytometry to Flow Zoometry: A Paradigm Shift in High-Throughput Screening"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
"Designing Functional Microdevices for Biomedical Research and Clinical Applications"
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