Personal Biochips - Summer Workshop
Personal Biochips - Summer Workshop
July 22 - 26, ATLAS Institute, CU Boulder
During this summer workshop, you will:
This summer workshop will engage 25 PhD students* in digital microfluidic research, with the aim of bridging the gap between computer science and microbiology. We invite PhD students with diverse backgrounds (e.g., computer engineering, biology, microfluidics).
During the hands-on sessions, each student will build their own biochip, learn how to program it, and develop a bio-protocol for it. The students will work in groups and learn from each other how to collaborate and develop new ideas. Apart from the theoretical and hands-on sessions, the students will be involved in a “where would it lead” open discussion with the senior researchers; discussion meant to identify the current research challenges and the future directions of the field.
*we welcome applications from postdocs and undergrads as well
speakers & mentors
program
July 22 (Monday) - Bio-protocols
09:00 - 09:30 - Welcome by organisers (Mirela Alistar)
09:30 - 10:30 - Lightning talks participants (4 mins each)
== coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 - Lightning talks participants (4 mins each)
== lunch
13:30 - 14:30 - Biological applications on microfluidic biochips
14:30 - 16:30 - Hands-on: GFP cloning 1 (Mirela Alistar)
== coffee break
17:00 - 19:00 - Translate bio-protocol -> graph (on your own)July 23 (Tuesday) - Biochip design
09:30 - 10:30 - Fun and more at SparkFunX (Nathan Seidle, SparkFun)
== coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 - Open source hardware in universities & academia (Alicia Gibb, OSHWA)
== lunch
13:30 - 14:30 - Design a biochip cartridge (on your own)
14:30 - 16:30 - Hands-on: fabricate your biochip (Mirela Alistar)
== coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 - Hands-on: coat & test your biochip (Mirela Alistar)
== social eventJuly 24 (Wednesday) - Biochip programs
09:30 - 10:30 - Microdrop and programming biochips (Christian Fobel, Sci-bots Inc.)
== coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 - Microfluidic Design Automation (Ali Lashkaripour, Boston University)
== lunch
13:30 - 14:30 - Challenges in biochip research (open discussion)
14:30 - 16:00 - Building a research community (group work)
== outing in the mountainsJuly 25 (Thursday) - Biochip automation
09:30 -10:30 - Algorithms to automate bio-protocol execution on biochips (Philip Brisk, UC Riverside)
== coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 - Fault-tolerance in CAD tools for biochips (Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University)
== lunch
13:00 - 14:30 - Combining Fluidics and Computation (Max Willsey, University of Washington)
15:00 - 23:00 - Build your own biochips (Mirela Alistar)July 26 (Friday) - Future of biochips
10:30 - 12:00 - How to get a faculty position (Mirela Alistar)
== lunch
13:30 - 16:00 - visit SparkFun Electronics
== fly homeorganizers
Contact us if you have questions. Looking forward to having you in our workshop!