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Petra Dittrich
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
EMBL Conference
Microfluidics is a quickly growing, highly interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, engineering, chemistry and biology. Over the past years microfluidic approaches have been used for a variety of applications, including nucleotide sequencing, functional genomics, single-cell/single-molecule studies and diagnostics. Many of these applications, including next-generation sequencing devices, have been revolutionised by miniaturisation, paving the way for global gene analysis and hence transforming biology. In addition, working on the pico- to nanoliter scale not only allows a high degree of parallelisation, but also offers superb spatiotemporal control. Small objects such as cells, or even discrete parts thereof, can be exposed to unique conditions, facilitating entirely novel approaches in modern biology and chemistry.
The EMBL Microfluidics Conference 2018 aims to bring together top researchers in the field and to spark scientific exchange, also across different disciplines. The latest Lab-on-a-Chip technologies and applications will be presented, which should be of major interest for experts as well as scientists looking for a first glance at this exciting new technology.
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poland
University of California, Berkeley
USA
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA
KIST Europe
Germany
The Scripps Research Institute, Florida,
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Germany
Harvard University
USA
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
Nature Biotechnology
Germany
Angewandte Chemie
Germany
Lab on a Chip
USA
Nature Communications
UK
Lab on a Chip
UK
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Stanford University
USA
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Date: 15 - 17 Jul 2018
Location: EMBL Heidelberg