Multicellular organisms in microfluidic systems
Event details
| Date | 14.11.2016 › 16.11.2016 |
| Hour | 08:00 › 14:00 |
| Speaker | A range of experts from around the world |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Symposium Latsis EPFL 2016
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 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.
Speakers:
Adela Ben-Yakar, University of Texas
David Biron, University of Chicago
Henrik Bringmann, Max Planck Institute
Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute, California
Nikos Chronis, University of Michigan
Matteo Cornaglia, Laboratory of Microsystems, EPFL
Andrew deMello, ETHZ
Andrew Dillin, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Fang-Yen, University of Pennsylvania
Bhagwati Gupta, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Erel Levine, Harvard University
Shawn Lockery, University of Oregon
Hang Lu, Georgia Tech
Coleen T. Murphy, Lewis-Sigler Institute, USA
Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard
Michael Unser, BIG, EPFL
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 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.
Speakers:
Adela Ben-Yakar, University of Texas
David Biron, University of Chicago
Henrik Bringmann, Max Planck Institute
Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute, California
Nikos Chronis, University of Michigan
Matteo Cornaglia, Laboratory of Microsystems, EPFL
Andrew deMello, ETHZ
Andrew Dillin, University of California, Berkeley
Christopher Fang-Yen, University of Pennsylvania
Bhagwati Gupta, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Erel Levine, Harvard University
Shawn Lockery, University of Oregon
Hang Lu, Georgia Tech
Coleen T. Murphy, Lewis-Sigler Institute, USA
Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard
Michael Unser, BIG, EPFL
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Latsis Foundation and EPFL
Contact
- Lucie Auberson pour le Prof. Martin Gijs