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A variety of 3-6 hour workshops will be offered on Sunday, 26 October 2014. Two full-day workshops and three half-day (1/2) workshops will be offered. Morning sessions begin at 09:00 and the afternoon sessions begin at 13:30. All workshops will be held at the Riverside Marriott Hotel and will adjourn by 16:30. San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter - MicroTAS 2014 Host Hotel 101 Bowie Street San Antonio, TX 78205 Sunday Workshop / Course Fee
Attendees must choose the Workshop they would like to attend at the time of registration as there will be no in and out privileges and material (if any) will only be prepared for those who sign up. Early registration is encouraged as seating is limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. On-site registration may be limited. Workshop material will be available for downloading prior to the Workshop. Attendees will be responsible for bringing any requisite material, including the downloaded material, with them to the Workshop. The Executive Committee reserves the right to amend the Workshops if necessary. To add a Workshop or Workshops to an existing registration, please visit the Registration Addition page. If a particular workshop is FULL, please contact registration@microtas2014.org to be added to the waiting list. Title: Microfabrication via 3D Printing Presenters: Dr. Michael Breadmore - University of Tasmania, Australia Dr. Rosanne Guijt - University of Tasmania, Australia Target Audience: This workshop is aimed at students, postdocs, and faculty looking for an introduction to 3D printing and how it can be applied in their research. Learning Objectives: Additive manufacturing techniques like 3D printing are seeing increasingly widespread use as the cost of these instruments has become more affordable. The ability to rapidly build and test new designs makes them particularly attractive as versatile microfabrication tools. This workshop will provide an introduction to 3D printing technologies and show how they can be used to construct microfluidic analytical systems. In addition to learning the basics of 3D printing, the workshop will provide attendees with a hands-on opportunity to create and print their own designs. Maximum Attendance: 30 ^ Top of Page Title: Paper-based Microfluidics Presenter: Dr. Charles S. Henry - Colorado State University, USA Target Audience: This workshop is aimed at students, postdocs, and faculty with interest in learning how to design paper-based microfluidic devices and assays. Learning Objectives: Paper has long been used as a substrate for chemical measurements, starting from simple litmus paper and advancing to more elegant methods like lateral flow immunoassays. Interest in paper-based analytical devices (also referred to as Lab-on-Paper or Capillarity-Based Microfluidics) has grown exponentially owing to their ease of manufacturing and incredible versatility to perform increasingly sophisticated assays with minimal external power. Attendees of this workshop will gain a working knowledge of the fundamentals governing design of paper-based microfluidic systems, and have an opportunity to build and test their own functional lab-on-paper devices. Maximum Attendance: 20 ^ Top of Page Title: Diagnostics Technologies for Point of Care and Resource Limited Settings Presenters: Dr. Aydogan Ozcan - University of California at Los Angeles, USA Dr. David Erickson - Cornell University, USA Dr. Sandeep Kumar Vashist - University of Freiburg - IMTEK, GERMANY Dr. Aman Russom - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Michelle Khine, University of California - Irvine, USA Dr. Victor M. Ugaz - Texas A&M University, USA Target Audience: The workshop will be of interest to a wide range of R&D scientists and engineers, grad students/postdocs, medical doctors, decision makers, and product developers, active in microsystems technology and applications in diagnostics. Learning Objectives: Whether in doctors' offices, at clinics, or out in the field, Point-of-Care (PoC) devices enable the fast and reliable identification of risks on a molecular level in an automated way. The microTAS community has played a key role in the emergence of these platforms into the mainstream where they serve an increasingly broad array of diagnostic needs. This workshop will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about the latest progress in this rapidly growing field directly from an interdisciplinary panel of presenters who have been actively leading their development. Maximum Attendance: 70 ^ Top of Page Workshop 4 - Half-day, Afternoon Title: Inertial Microfluidics Presenter: Dr. Dino Di Carlo - University of California at Los Angeles Target Audience:This workshop is aimed at students, postdocs, and faculty with interest in gaining a deeper understanding of inertial microfluidic phenomena and how they can be applied. Learning Objectives:Inertial phenomena in microfluidic systems are of interest due to their unique ability to enable important operations like separations and mixing. But the underlying physics are surprisingly complex despite the fact that laminar flow conditions prevail. This workshop seeks to de-mystify inertial microfluidic phenomena using a combination of live demos and an open-source computational tool. Attendees will come away with a foundation to understand inertial phenomena and how they can be exploited in new and useful ways. Special Requirements: Each attendee should bring their own laptop to run the µFlow design software. Please see www.biomicrofluidics.com/software.php for more information on software platforms that support full µFlow functionality. Maximum Attendance: 50 Material Requirement: Each attendee should bring their own laptop to run the µFlow design software. Please see www.biomicrofluidics.com/software.php for more information on software platforms that support full µFlow functionality. ^ Top of Page Workshop 5 - Half-day, Afternoon Title: Simulating Microfluidic Phenomena with STAR-CCM+ Presenters: Dr. Ravindra Aglave - CD-adapco Dr. Victor M. Ugaz - Texas A&M University, USA Target Audience: This workshop is aimed at students, postdocs, and faculty with interest in simulating complex microfluidic phenomena. Learning Objectives: This workshop will introduce attendees to STAR-CCM+, a powerful computational platform for simulation of complex microfluidic phenomena. Examples of advanced capabilities include simulation of 3D phenomena, coupled chemical reactions with spatially-dependent kinetics, and multiphase flows pertinent to separation applications. Upon completing the workshop, students will gain a working knowledge of STAR-CCM+ (www.cd-adapco.com/products/star-ccm®) and learn how its capabilities can be applied in the context of their own research. Maximum Attendance: 30 ^ Top of Page Workshop 6 - Half-day, Afternoon Title: Diagnostics at the Point of Care: From Sample-to-Answer Empowered by Centrifugal Microfluidics Presenters: Mark Keller - HSG-IMIT, GERMANY Daniel Mark - HSG-IMIT, GERMANY Felix von Stetten - HSG-IMIT, GERMANY Roland Zengerle - HSG-IMIT, GERMANY Target Audience: The workshop addresses R&D scientists and engineers, medical doctors, decision makers, assay providers and product developers at universities and companies that are or want to become active in point-of-care diagnostics. Learning Objectives: Microfluidics enables miniaturization, integration, automation and massive parallelization of biochemical and/or biomolecular assays. However, the implementation of integrated tests, from sample to answer can be an expensive, long-term and high-risk project. Therefore, the use of microfluidic platforms offering validated building blocks is mandatory. In this course we present how to implement all necessary building blocks such as reagent storage & release, sample & liquid transport, metering, mixing, extraction, amplification, detection etc. by using centrifugal microfluidics. We show various integrated assay implementations such as infectious disease testing or controlling the quality of drinking water. The workshop ends with discussing challenges and solutions for the scale-up of chip fabrication. Maximum Attendance: 60 ^ Top of Page |