[Legacy Report] Microfluidics for health, energy, and synthetic biology

#Microfluidics #Lab-on-Chip

Microfluidics, a ‘lab-on-chip’ technology, has been touted in the past decade as a way to manipulate fluids on the microscale for biological and chemical applications.  In this talk, I will describe the use of a droplet paradigm of microfluidics – i.e. droplet-in-flow and digital microfluidics – for applications related to health, energy, and synthetic biology.  Specifically, first, I will describe an automated cell culturing system that can be used to potentially decipher cancer pathways. Second, I will describe how we are developing new systems for enzymatic screening assays related to biofuel production. And finally, I will describe how we can use the on-demand nature of droplet microfluidics for synthetic biology -  DNA construction and cloning.  These are the new possibilities for biological applications that are enabled by droplet-type microfluidics.  I will also review some of our efforts in creating automation systems and rapid prototyping of devices.

• Date: 29 Mar 2017
• Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
• All times are (GMT-05:00) Canada/Eastern
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• Quebec City, Quebec
• Canada

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