This workshop will cover fluid mechanical transport processes commonly observed in microfluidic devices. Topics will include unidirectional flow, hydraulic circuits, transport, and nonlinear electrokinetic fluid flow and particle actuation.
Prof. Brian Kirby, Director of the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and author of the text, “Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics,” Cambridge University Press, will lead the instruction. Dr. Yolanda Fintschenko, Director of New Technologies, Marketing and Sales for LabSmith, Inc., will illustrate fundamental principles of electrokinetic and pressure-driven flow, using the LabPackage to control the experiments.
LabSmith’s LabPackage provides complete control and visualization of microfluidic and nanofluidic transport phenomena and related experiments. LabPackage includes CapTite™ microfluidic interconnection products, SPS01 Programmable Syringe Pumps, the SVM 340 Synchronous Video Microscope and the HVS448 High Voltage Sequencer.
The AES workshop is recommended for researchers in the field of microfluidics, biomedical and chemical engineers, industrial R&D engineers, chemists, biochemists, university professors and students. Attendees will focus on electrokinetic fluid flow and particle actuation. Hands-on instruction will help illustrate flow mechanics and transport in pluglike electrokinetic flow and parabolic pressure-driven flow on a chip.
The workshop is open to AES meeting attendees who can sign up for the session when registering for the AES Meeting. Fee: Professors $249; Students and post-docs $149; Undergraduates $10. Fees also include an afternoon workshop entitled, "Microscale Electrokinetics with COMSOL."
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The LabSmith LabPackage is useful for training in microfluidics and transport. Shown here is everything necessary to control an electrokinetic and pressure-driven flow transport experiment to illustrate the principles covered in Professor Brian Kirby’s course given in conjunction with the American Electrophoresis Society meeting on Nov. 7, 2010. A high resolution version of this photo is enclosed.
About LabSmith, Inc.
LabSmith, Inc. builds laboratory tools that further the art of research. LabSmith products control all aspects of experimentation, including timing, synchronization, high voltage and current sourcing, fluid routing and event capture and visualization. Visit www.labsmith.com.
About The American Electrophoresis Society (AES)
The American Electrophoresis Society is a unique international organization founded to improve and promote technologies necessary for biomolecular separation and detection. The techniques of electrophoresis are numerous and include isoelectric focusing, 2-D / IEF / SDS PAGE, capillary, free-flow, as well as classical gel systems. Electrophoresis technologies play a central role in many scientific investigations that cover a broad range of disciplines (clinical and basic) from cancer research to molecular biology. Thus, promoting excellence in these technologies and their use will improve the overall quality of resultant data in these areas of endeavor. The Society is interested in theoretical modeling of electrophoretic separations of various biomolecules, as well as the direct application of those principles and their refinement. Visit www.aesociety.org.
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