Microfluidics for

What/Who

We will have four 45 minute talks and four 20 minute short talks. Each presentation will be followed by a 10 minute discussion.

Program:

• 09:00-90:10- Maxime Dahan:

  Foreword

• 09:10-10:10- Patrick Doyle:

  Synthesizing functional colloids using microfluidics

• 10:10-10:40- Dirk Aarts:

  The Safmann-Taylor instability at ultralow interfacial tension

• 10:40-11:00-

  Coffe break

• 11:00-11:30- Jacques Leng:

  Evaporation-based microfluidic tools for out-of-equilibrium studies of soft matter systems

• 11:30-12:30- Seth Fraden:

  Phase Transitions of Protein Solutions Using the PhaseChip

• 12:30-14:00-

  Break

• 14:00-15:00- Dieter Braun:

  Optical Microflow

• 15:00-15:30- Christophe Ybert:

  Chemical gradients for motion generation: chemotaxis-like response and self-propulsion of synthetic systems

• 15:30-16:00-

  Coffe break

• 16:00-16:30- Pascal Hersen:

  Using Microfluidics to study the HOG MAP Kinase Cascade in Yeast

• 16:30-17:30- Abe Stroock:

  Vascular structure and function in vitro