2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Micro-Scale Technologies

This session will focus on applications of micro-scale technologies to life science and biomedical questions. This could include biomaterials design scaled for high-throughput technologies, methods for single cell measurements, computational approaches for data sets created as a result of single cell approaches, etc.

Chair

Mathumai Kanapathipillai, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Co-Chair

Hung-Jen Wu, Texas A&M University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(765a) Pocket Centrifuges: Building a 20-Cent Centrifuge for Global Health Applications
M. Saad Bhamla, Chew Chai, Brandon Benson, Georgios Katsikis, Aanchal Johri, Manu Prakash

08:48 AM

(765b) Patterned Biofilm Formation to Investigate Biofilm-Associated Antibiotic Resistance
Huan Gu, Dacheng Ren

09:06 AM

(765c) Elucidating Bacterial Interactions in the Vaginal Microbiome Using Microfluidic Droplet Technology
Corine Jackman

09:24 AM

(765d) Microfluidic Medip-Seq for Low-Input Epigenomic Analysis and Personalized Medicine
Yan Zhu, Zhenning Cao, Travis Murphy, Chang Lu

09:42 AM

(765e) High-Throughput Measurements of Cancer Cell Deformability
Ming Dao, Elizabeth J. Stewart, Anda M. Vlad, Lixin Zhang

10:00 AM

(765f) Deterministic Encapsulation of Single Cells in Thin Tunable Microgels for Niche Modeling and Therapeutic Delivery
Angelo S. Mao, Jae-Won Shin, David A. Weitz, David J. Mooney

10:18 AM

(765g) Advances in Microfabricated Sensors for Health and Environmental Monitoring
Roya Maboudian