2010 Annual Meeting

Session: DNA Analysis in Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Devices

This session of contributed presentations will focus on the use and modeling of DNA electrophoresis in microfabricated and nanofabricated devices. Topics of interest include design and fabrication, simulation and theoretical modeling of the transport phenomena in existing technologies, and applications.

Chair

Anubhav Tripathi, Brown University

Presentations

12:30 PM

(462a) Simulation of DNA Conformation Pre-Conditioning for Electrophoretic Stretching in a Microcontraction
Chih-Chen Hsieh, Tsung-Hsien Lin

12:45 PM

(462b) DNA Translocation through Nanopores Under Time-Varying Electric Fields: A Brownian Dynamics Study
Christopher M. Edmonds, Yeny C. Hudiono, Amir A. Ahmadi, Peter Hesketh, Sankar Nair

01:00 PM

(462c) Molecular Simulation of Polyelectrolye Conformational Dynamics Under An AC Electric Field
Hongjun Liu, Yingxin Zhu, Edward Maginn

01:15 PM

(462d) Pressure-Induced Flow and Resultant Orientation of Polyacrylamide Chains Impacts Peak Width in DNA Sequencing Separatoins in Microchannel Electrophoresis
Thomas Niedringhaus, Annelise Barron, Daniel G. Hert, Christopher P. Fredlake

01:30 PM

(462e) Electrophoretic Concentration of DNA at Nanoporous Polymer Membranes for Separations and Diagnostics
Robert J. Meagher, Anup K. Singh

01:45 PM

(462f) Long DNA Separation Using a Sparse Micropost Array
Jia Ou, Samuel J. Carpenter, Kevin D. Dorfman

02:00 PM

(462g) DNA Separation and Sequencing at a Stretch
Jiamin Wu, Shuangliang Zhao, Jianzhong Wu, Di Gao, Lizeng Gao

02:15 PM

(462h) Exploiting the Entropic Trapping Regime to Enhance Separation Performance in Microchip Gel Electrophoresis
Nan Shi, Victor M. Ugaz

02:30 PM

(462i) Microfluidic Native Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (µNChIP) Assay for Histone Acetylation Detection
Tao Geng, Ning Bao, Michael Litt, Chang Lu

02:45 PM

(462j) Far-Field Optical Nanoscopiy Based On Continuous Wave Laser Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) for Nanofluidics
Guiren Wang, Cuifang Kuang, Wei Zhao