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Microfluidics Technologies in Biomedical Research Symposium

January 15, 2009

1:30pm - 6pm

Harvard Medical School
Pechet Room, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center (NRB)
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA

This Inaugural Symposium marks the opening of the Department of Systems Biology’s Microfluidics Core at Harvard Medical School.  Sessions will focus on the application of microfluidics in cell culture and manipulation.  Wine & cheese reception to follow.

For more information visit the HMS Microfluidics Facility website.

Key Speakers include:
 

David Weitz - “Very High-Throughput Screening with Droplet-Based Microfluidics” - Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Department of Physics, Experimental Soft Condensed Matter Group, Harvard University

Richard B. Fair - “The $1,000 Genome – Sequencing DNA One Drop at a Time” - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Digital Microfluidics Lab, Duke University

Luke Lee - “Nanobiophotonics and Biofluidic ASICs for Systems Biology” - Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Director, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center and Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, UC Berkeley

David Beebe - “Exploring Paracrine Signaling Via Microscale Cultures: Pitfalls and Potential” - Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Microtechnology Medicine Biology Lab, University of Wisconsin