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Workshop II: Microfluidic Flows in Nature and Microfluidic Technologies

April 18 - 22, 2006

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

Howard Winet (UCLA)

"Muscle pump-enhanced microfluidic percolation of bone as an adjunct to fluid shear stress modulation of bone cells in vivo"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Chih-Ming Ho (UCLA)

"The Challenges of Applying Microfluidics Towards Biomedical Applications"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University)

"The mathematics of bio-separations: electroosmotic flow and band broadening in capillary electrophoresis (CE)"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Anna lin (Duke University)

"Probing chemical communication between neuron-glial cell networks with microfluidic devices"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Amy Shen (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Forisome: a smart plant protein inside a phloem system"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:30 - 7:00 Reception/Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Armand Ajdari (École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI))

"Motion of droplet in microfluidic networks:complexity and passive solutions"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Ali Nadim (Claremont Graduate University)

"Discrete Control of Liquid Drops on a Surface using Electrowetting"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Abraham Lee (University of California, Irvine)

"Control of Droplet Emulsions in Microfluidic Devices"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Michael Brenner (Harvard University)

"Constraints On Ion Channel Evolution"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Juan Santiago (Stanford University)

"Electrokinetic Microfluidics at Extreme Scales"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)


Thursday, April 20, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Todd Squires (UC Santa Barbara)

"Engineering on the pore scale for microfluidic systems"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Stephen Quake (Stanford University)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

John Kessler (University of Arizona)

"Flows, forces and transport associated with swimming microorganisms"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Richard McLaughlin (University of North Carolina)

"Spinning Rods and Passive Tracers, from Nano and Micro Scale, to table top scale"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Ming-Cheng Cheng (Ohio State University Newark)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)


Friday, April 21, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Isaac Klapper (Montana State University - Bozeman)

"Biofilms as Fluids"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

Anette Hosoi (MIT)

"Building a Better Snail: Lubrication and Adhesive Locomotion"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Linda Cummings (University of Nottingham)

"Fluid flow problems in rotating bioreactors"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

John Lowengrub (University of California, Irvine)

"Adaptive simulations of drop/interface impact"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30

Wendy Zhang (University of Chicago)

"Broad Hump or Sharp Cusp: Topological Transition Driven by Viscous Flow"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)


Saturday, April 22, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Andrea Chow (Association for Laboratory Automation)

"Challenges in Microfluidic Technology Development and Commercialization"

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

To Be Announced

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Darren Link (RainDance Technologies, Inc.)

"NanoReactorTM Technology: Active Manipulation of Droplet-Based Bioreactors"

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

John Frangos (La Jolla Bioengineering)

"Microfluidic interstitial fluid flow and bone remodeling. "

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