Multicellular organisms in microfluidic systems
Event details
| Date | 14.11.2016 › 16.11.2016 |
| Speaker |
A wide range of world experts in the domain. Speakers: Adela Ben-Yakar, University of Texas, Austin, USA David Biron, Department of Physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Henrik Bringmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute, California, USA Nikos Chronis, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, USA Matteo Cornaglia, Laboratory of Microsystems, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Andrew deMello, Institute for Chemical & Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry & Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Andrew Dillin, University of California, Berkeley, USA Christopher Fang-Yen, Dept. of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bhagwati Gupta, Dept. Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Erel Levine, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Shawn Lockery, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, USA Hang Lu, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia, USA Coleen T. Murphy, Professor, Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics and Dept. of Molecular Biology & Director, Glenn Center for Quantitative Aging Research at Princeton, NJ, USA Aravinthan Samuel, Department of Physics & Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Michael Unser, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Biomedical Imaging Group, Switzerland |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The “Symposium Latsis EPFL 2016” on the topic “Multicellular organisms in microfluidic systems” will be held at the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) on the shoreline of the beautiful Lac Léman, Lausanne, Switzerland. Studies of living organisms like nematodes and invertebrate embryos in controlled spatio-temporal chemical environments on microfluidic chips are gaining momentum, as these animals offer genetic amenability, low-cost, and culture conditions that are compatible with large-scale screens, while not raising ethical issues.
The 2.5-day Latsis Symposium (November 14-16, 2016) wants to bridge the gap between microfluidic systems and biological model organism research, by providing an interdisciplinary forum on the technology and applications of microfluidic systems for studies of multicellular organisms in medicine and biology. Invited and Contributed Presentations cover the topics of microfluidic technologies, organism (neuro-)biology, on-chip manipulation and imaging, development studies, screening, and in vivo diagnostic applications.
Please pay attention to following important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 June
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 August
Registration deadline for presenting authors: 31 August
Lodging at SwissTech Hotel: pre-reserved rooms hold until 2 October
Registration deadline for all: 31 October
The 2.5-day Latsis Symposium (November 14-16, 2016) wants to bridge the gap between microfluidic systems and biological model organism research, by providing an interdisciplinary forum on the technology and applications of microfluidic systems for studies of multicellular organisms in medicine and biology. Invited and Contributed Presentations cover the topics of microfluidic technologies, organism (neuro-)biology, on-chip manipulation and imaging, development studies, screening, and in vivo diagnostic applications.
Please pay attention to following important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 June
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 August
Registration deadline for presenting authors: 31 August
Lodging at SwissTech Hotel: pre-reserved rooms hold until 2 October
Registration deadline for all: 31 October
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Practical information
- Informed public
- Registration required
Organizer
- Johan Auwerx and Martin Gijs (EPFL)