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NCSR to Transducers at Barcelona, June 2013

A delegation from the NCSR travelled to Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, last month. Four group members made the journey to Transducers 2013, where a total of five NCSR posters were presented. As a member of the Technical Programme Committee, Dr Jens Ducrée of the BDI chaired a session on Bio-Microsystems along with Prof. Shuichi Shoji (Department of Electronic and Photonic Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioscience, Waseda University, Japan). Dr Ducrée is principal investigator for Microfluidic Platforms at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI) and Associate Professor for Microsystems in the School of Physical Sciences at the Dublin City University (DCU).

Transducers 2013 was the 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. It took place from 16th-20th June 2013 and was hosted by the Centro de Convenciones Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), in association with the Electron Devices Society (EDS), Elsevier, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The chairs were J. R. Morante (Department of Electronics, University of Barcelona) and Christofer Hierold (ETH Zurich).

The DCU presented one talk and 5 posters at the Conference:

‘Multi-stage, Solvent-controlled Routing for Automated On-disc Extraction of Total RNA from Breast Cancer Cell Line Homogenate’

 J. Gaughran, N. Dimov, E. Clancy, T. Barry, T.J. Smith, and J. Ducrée (Dublin City University and National University of Ireland, Ireland)

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‘Full Integration of a Liver Assay Panel on a Centrifugal Microfluidic Platform’

C.E. Nwankire, R. Burger, T. O’Connell, T. Glennon, and J. Ducrée (Dublin City University, Ireland)

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‘Photo-patterning of Ionogel Microstructures for On-chip Microvalve Applications Controlled by Fiber Optics’

M. Czugala, C. O’Connell, A. McKeon, C. Fernández Sánchez, X. Munoz-Berbel, A. Llobera, D. Diamond, and F. Benito-Lopez (Dublin City University, Ireland, Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain, and CIC microGUNE, Spain)

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‘Plate Reader Compatible Membrane-Integrated Microfluidic Platform for High-throughput Cellular Assays’

E. Vereshchagina, D. McGlade, M. Glynn and J. Ducrée (Dublin City University, Ireland)

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‘Auto-actuated Sequential Release Valves for Lab-on-a-disc Systems’

D.J. Kinahan, S.M. Kearney, and J. Ducrée (Dublin City University, Ireland)

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‘Automated On-disc Total RNA Extraction from Whole Blood Towards Point-of-care for Early-stage Diagnostics’

N. Dimov, J. Gaughran, E. Clancy, T. Barry, T.J. Smith, and J. Ducrée (Dublin City University, Ireland, and National University of Ireland)

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