14:00-14:15

Session 1 - Single cell/ single organism studies

Chair: Markus Elsner

Microfluidic single-cell chromatin profiling to study emergence of drug resistance in cancer

Kevin Grosselin, ESPCI Paris, France

Session 1 (cont.)

Title to be announced
Alex Shalek, MIT, USA

Imaging and Sequencing Single cells

Aaron Streets, UC Berkley, USA

Reconstructing human organ development using microfluidic-based single-cell transcriptomics
Barbara Trautlein, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Single cell analysis reveals functional heterogeneity within plasmacytoid dendritic cells and identifies environmental cues that drive type I IFN production

JurjenTel, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Coffee break

Title to be announced
Angela Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Investigating the epigenetic heterogeneity and tumor microenvironment in early prostate tumors at single-cell resolution

Ece Eksi, Oregon Health and Science University, USA

Session 2: Droplet-based microfluidics

Single-cell analysis with droplet microfluidics

David Weitz, Harvard University, USA

Cutting edge droplet microfluidic technology for revolutionising antibody discovery and production

Dale Starkie, UCB Celltech, UK

Title to be announced
Piotr Garstecki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Lunch

High-throughput therapeutic protein evolution using phenotypic screening in microfluidic droplets

Thomas Fryer, University of Cambridge, UK

Droplet-microfluidics in antibody discovery and personalized medicine

Electrophoretic Cytometry for Targeted Proteomics

A high-throughput microfluidic platform to screen live CRISPR edited human cells by surface marker expression

David Philpott, University of Toronto, Canada

Coffee break

Title to be announced
Luke Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Flash talks on Biomedical Applications: Weiqiang Chen, Lisa Mahler, Ana Peñaherrera

Flash talks on Diagnostics:Hemmateenejad, Roy, Folli

High throughput error-correction code DNA sequencing: concept, chemistry, microfluidics, and prototype

Yanyi Huang, Peking University, China

Sub-pg/mL, Multiplexed Detection of Cytokines on a Mobile-Phone, High Throughput Digital Droplet ELISA

Venkata Yelleswarapu, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Biomimetics - attempts to learn from nature

Andreas Manz, KIST Europe, Germany

Peptides and lipid membranes: Permeation, Partitioning, pore formation

Petra Dittrich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Optofluidic Platforms for High-Throughput and Precision Measurements in Flow Cytometric Detection

Stavros Stavrakis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

12:30