An exciting opportunity is available for exhibiting and sponsoring companies eager to contribute more to the Conference on the Industrial Stage!
These 20 minute presentations should focus on issues of broader interest to this large audience, such as:
- Scientific and technological challenges which have/ had to be solved
- Design and application-related solutions in product development
- Experiences learned in transitioning scientific results to a commercial product
- Manufacturing solutions for microfluidic-enabled products
- Market experiences
- Performance of microfluidics-enabled products in comparison to conventional solutions
Each presentation will be listed on the website and in the Conference program.
Exhibiting companies interested in participating should complete the contract on page 4 of the Exhibitor/Sponsorship Prospectus.
Monday, 11 October
Industrial Stage 1a
Title: HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MICROFLUIDICS FOR LIFE SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
Affiliation:
Fluigent
Presenter: Alexis Rezgui
Time: 11:50 - 12:10
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Discover how to take advantage of pressure-based flow control instrumentation in three different Life Science applications: Organ-O-A-Chip, Droplet & Particle Generation, Cell sorting. When working with living cells, stability, response time and pulseless flow are key parameters to control with accuracy. In this talk, you will see how pressure-based instrumentation can enhance your applications and experiments. In addition, you'll discover how microfluidic can be integrated in an instrument for single cell.
Industrial Stage 1b
Title: COVID AND BEYOND - MICROFLUIDICS FOR POINT-OF-CARE DIAGNOSTICS IN PANDEMIC TIMES
Affiliation:
microfluidic ChipShop GmbH
Presenter: Holger Becker, Ph.D.
Time: 12:10 - 12:30
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the need for highly sensitive, highly specific rapid diagnostic tests. This presentation will highlights the technical requirements for a wide range of technological approaches and microfluidic solutions to this challenge. We will also share our lessons learned in the development process of such systems and discuss manufacturing aspects for volume production. A rapid transition from academic ideas to diagnostic products require a deep understanding of such processes.
Industrial Stage 1c
Title: ADVANCE WAFER-LEVEL PROCESSES FOR NEXT-GEN INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDICS
Affiliation:
EV Group (EVG)
Presenter: Richard Redburn, BSEE
Time: 12:30 - 12:50
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Presentation covers a general introduction to UV Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) process, why and how it is beneficial for lithography applications. Explains differences between main types of NIL processes and the variables and process requirements that will help identify which process type may be the best fit for a given application. Provides a list of the wide variety of EVG equipment that was designed and engineered to support NIL processing in a variety of substrate types and dimensions. Provides some details on cost of ownership along with pattern fidelity for various NIL processes. It shows many examples and SEM photos of lithographic results using EVG NIL materials and equipment. The presentation also mentions industries that are currently make use of NIL manufacturing techniques. Finally, it introduces the EVG NIL Competence Center for photonic applications. This competence center was created to help customers to quickly develop NIL photonics applications by offering NIL solutions and expertise that include pilot line production services, material selection, and customization.
Tuesday, 12 October
Industrial Stage 2a
Title: ON DEMAND MATERIALS FOR NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE
Affiliation:
RAN Biotechnologies
Presenter: Roger Nassar, Ph.D.
Time: 12:00 - 12:20
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RAN Biotechnologies develops and supplies smart materials to address timely needs in next generation science. Broad knowledge in synthetic and materials chemistry coupled with extensive experience in biological applications position our products in the lead. This presentation discusses specialty materials that capture, encapsulate and barcode biology and showcases their use across a wide range of applications. These materials include:
- Hydrogel Beads: They are compressible, stable, monodisperse. Example custom mechanical, chemical and biological functionalities include barcoding, dissolvable and superparamagnetic beads. Their mechanical properties support their use in conventional microfluidics, wells and particle templated emulsion processes and can be adapted to custom workflows.
- Fluorosurfactants: RAN Biotech's gold standard and custom surfactants are used to stabilize water:oil interface and are mostly used in droplet microfluidics.
- NextGen Affinity Resins that isolate and detect bacteria, fungi and viruses at the micro-scale as well as in bulk and continuous flow setups.
Industrial Stage 2b
Title: HIGH-SPEED ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF MICROFLUIDICS BY COMBINED BRIGHTFIELD AND FLUORESCENT IMAGING
Affiliation:
Sensific GmbH
Presenter: Daniel Geiger
Time: 12:20 - 12:40
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We demonstrate how our novel combinatorial bright-field and fluorescence analysis and control system enables advanced microfluidic experiments. Images of the different contrast types are captured and analyzed in real-time at measurement rates of several thousand images per second. More than 30 properties of each of the different channels like size, position and intensity are automatically calculated. All parameters can be freely combined, even between different channels, and directly monitored in the graphical user-interface. This allows for example the examination of cells in droplets in bright-field in combination with the cell state in fluorescence. For instance, identification of the population of cells expressing a certain protein. Additionally, our system allows the precise control of microfluidic systems based on the measurement results, because of its ultra-low latency of only a few microseconds between actual image exposure and analysis result. Therefore manipulation steps like sorting are easily possible, enhancing experimental possibilities even further.
Industrial Stage 2c
Title: HOW TO CREATE A FLUIDIC SOLUTION WITH MICROPUMP
Affiliation:
Bartels Mikrotechnik GmbH
Presenter: Frank Bartels
Time: 12:40 - 13:00
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Microfluidic systems are widely used in life sciences, such as diagnostics, drug delivery liquid and cell handling. The targeted fluidic functionality normally need a combination of different elements. This is often a pumping component, which is combined with elements like flow regulater, flow-sensor. pressure-sensor tubing. The combination of such elements can be tricky because of gas bubbles, insignificant sucking pressure or cavitation. In addition the different elements normally use individual driver and need a control software to establish the necessary functionality. We have put together a setup of reasonable, industrialized fluidic elements and tested the functionality under different various condition. This forward integration offers a fast and easy access to active microfluidcs and its high functionality brings users very close to their solution and realizes their vision.
Wednesday, 13 October
Industrial Stage 3a
HOW TO MAKE SMART USE OF MULTI-MATERIAL OPTIONS IN MICROFLUIDIC CONSUMABLES
Affiliation:
Micronit BV
Presenter: Marko Blom
Time: 11:50 - 12:10
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Being able to choose the right material early on in your development process is one of the key factors in the current microfluidics market. At Micronit, a 20+ years generalist in microfluidics, we know how to design and manufacture devices in polymers as well as glass and silicon in our fully ISO 13485 certified facilities. In addition, we have implemented wafer-scale and die-level hybrid assembly technologies in order to combine the right materials in the right manner. With our fluidics design expertise and our hybrid assembly capabilities, we can supply complete consumables for the Diagnostics market, but also for other applications such as Next Generation Sequencing or Single Cell Analysis. Marko Blom will discuss the basic principles of our multi-material and hybrid assembly approach and show you the benefits that can be achieved by going hybrid!
Industrial Stage 3b
Title: MICROFLUIDICS - CHANGING THE GAME IN BIOMARKER DETECTION
Affiliation:
STRATEC Consumables GmbH
Presenter: Magdalena Schimke
Time: 12:10 - 12:30
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Finding existing and novel biomarkers in circulating fluids via liquid biopsies is a strongly emerging field in research and technology development. It aims on finding extremely rare molecules, cells or sub-cellular compartments in body fluids that allow a diagnose of a disease, its progress and monitoring of therapy success. STRATEC here presents examples of novel technologies, relevant regulatory aspects, ways to make them accessible for the medical market as well as future perspectives.
Industrial Stage 3c
Title: HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR SAMPLE PREPARATION USING SOUND
Affiliation:
AcouSort
Presenter: Julia Alsved
Time: 12:30 - 12:50
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AcouSort provides products and solutions for automated preparation of biological samples for researchers and life science companies. The core technology is acoustofluidics where a combination of microfluidics and sound waves is used to separate blood into its components, to isolate and purify cells and to allow for in-line optical access to blood plasma in whole blood.