Droplet microfluidics driven by confinement gradients: from ultralow volume chemistry to 10,000 parallel cell cultures
Event details
| Date | 25.06.2013 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 15:15 |
| Speaker |
Prof. Charles N. Baroud, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (F) Bio: Charles Baroud graduated from MIT in 1993, before doing a PhD with Harry Swinney, at the University of Texas at Austin. He then did a post-doc with Patrick Tabeling at Ecole Normale Supérieure, in Paris, before joining Ecole Polytechnique as a faculty member in 2002. At Polytechnique he founded and currently leads the microfluidics group at the Hydrodynamics laboratory. His research interests combine fundamental questions on the physics of fluids with applications to lab on a chip technology. This has lead to a set of unique tools for the production and manipulation of droplet microreactors for biological and chemical applications. In 2011, he received a European Research Council grant for developing these tools specifically for cellular biology. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Ten years ago droplet microfluidics promised to revolutionize chemistry and biology. So far it has remained limited to niche applications, in part due to the complexity of re-formulating application questions in the "serial" format of traditional droplet techniques. In my talk I will present an approach for working with stationary droplets, in order to observe their contents from seconds to days. It is based on generating gradients of surface energy for producing, guiding, or holding drops. I will first present the underlying physical mechanisms, before discussing different applications we have developed for chemical kinetics measurements and cell screening.
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- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Prof. Carlotta Guiducci