Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Point of Care Technologies
Discussion Leader: Richard Crooks (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
David Issadore (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Hybrid Microelectronic/Microfluidic Chips for Rare Cell and Rare Exosome Detection Directly in Blood"
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
Paul Yager (University of Washington, USA)
"Better/Faster/Cheaper POC NAATs — Pick Three"
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nucleic Acid Analysis and Next Generation Sequencing
Discussion Leader: Nicole Pamme (University of Hull, United Kingdom)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Adam Abate (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"Quantitative Biology with High Throughput Droplet Microfluidics"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Rajiv Bharadwaj (10x Genomics, USA)
"Changing the Definition of Sequencing Drop by Drop"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Yanyi Huang (Peking University, China)
"Microfluidic Single Cell Sequencing"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Maribel Vazquez (City College of New York, USA) and Catherine Klapperich (Boston University, USA)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fields, Forces, and Flows
Discussion Leader: Jonathan Posner (University of Washington, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Minami Yoda (Georgia Institute of Technology , USA)
"Near-Wall Dynamics of Suspended Colloidal Particles in Microscale Shear and Electrokinetic Flow"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Baskar Ganapathysubramanian (Iowa State University, USA)
"Inertial Fluid Flow Sculpting: Computational Methods and Applications"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Flow-Structure Interactions
Discussion Leader: David Sinton (University of Toronto, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Chang-Jin Kim (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Drag Reduction: Microfluidics for Macro Application"
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
Pier-Luca Maffettone (Universita degli Studi di Napoli , Italy)
"An Open Issue in Viscoelastic Microfluidics: Multiparticle Dynamics"
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
Carolyn Ren (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"Microwave Assisted Droplet Sensing, Heating and Mixing and Image Analysis Assisted Droplet Manipulation"
11:25 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Amy Shen (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
"Elastic and Inertial Instabilities in Microfluidic Flows"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wearable and Implantable Systems
Discussion Leader: Jeff Tza-Huei Wang (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
Ellis Meng (University of Southern California, USA)
"Wet Implantable Microsensors"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
Sumita Pennathur (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Untethering Diabetes Through Innovative Engineering"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cell Mechanics
Discussion Leader: John Oakey (University of Wyoming , USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Jianping Fu (University of Michigan, USA)
"Mechanobiology, Pluripotent Stem Cells, and Early Embryonic Development"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Jochen Guck (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
"Feeling for Cell Function: Morpho-Rheological Phenotyping at 1,000 Cells/Sec"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Wilbur Lam (Emory University / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Cellular Mechanics of Hematologic Processes and Diseases"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Logic and Computational Design
Discussion Leader: Frances Ligler (North Carolina State University / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Douglas Densmore (Boston University, USA)
"Fluigi: Hardware, Software, and Wetware Automated Design for Synthetic Biology"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Elliot Hui (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Computation and Control by Microfluidic Logic"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Living Systems
Discussion Leader: Elain Fu (Oregon State University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Roman Stocker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Microbe-Fluidics"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Maribel Vazquez (City College of New York, USA)
"Microfluidics for the Visual System"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Active Matter in Microchannels"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
3D Printing
Discussion Leader: James Sterling (Keck Graduate Institute, USA)
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
Albert Folch (University of Washington, USA)
"Microfluidics: The Gap Betweeen Academia and Manufacturing"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
Noah Malmstadt (University of Southern California, USA)
"Applications of 3D-Printed Microfluidics: Nanomanufacturing and Biomarker Detection"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure