Mendel Centre Seminars - Microfluidics for next generation life science research

Microchip technology is vital for cell analysis because it is the only technology capable of simulating the physiological environment of cells and cell assemblies to investigate cellular transport mechanisms and cell proliferation events in the presence of specific reagent concentrations, temperature or shear force conditions. In light of the benefits of biochip technology and its potential future applications, my research group at AIT is developing lab-on-a-chip systems for various biomedical applications. My research is focused on the heterogeneous integration of micro- and nanosensors, miniaturized fluid handling systems and electronic components to establish higher level system architecture needed for advanced in vitro diagnostic systems, organ-on-a-chip technologies and smart implants. In course of the seminar various lab-on-a-chip components for cell analysis and cell chip applications including multilevel analysis of 2D & 3D cell culture systems will be presented.