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CHEMINAS - Young Researcher Poster Award

The MicroTAS Conference announces the Young Researcher Poster Award Competition sponsored by The Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS) to recognize excellence among its participants. A select group of poster judges will select, on a daily basis, the best presented posters from the poster session. The winners and awards will be announced during the Awards Ceremony at the annual MicroTAS Conference.

Past Winners

MicroTAS 2023 Conference, Katowice, POLAND

A COMPARTMENTALISED MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE ENABLES AIR-LIQUID INTERFACE CULTURE OF AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CELLS AND MEASUREMENT OF DYNAMIC IMMUNE CELL RECRUITMENT
Lucy-May Young, Louis J.Y. Ong, Kirsten Spann, and Yi-Chin Toh
Queensland University of Technology, AUSTRALIA

GROWING THE UNKNOWN: INVESTIGATION INTO A NEW APPROACH FOR IN-SITU MICROBIAL GROWTH
Sydney K. Wheatley1,2, Tina Navaei3, Emily Pope3, Tartela Alkayyali3, Christopher Cartmell4, Bradley A. Haltli3,5, Russell G. Kerr3,5, and Ali Ahmadi1,2
1École de Technologie Supérieure, CANADA, 2University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, CANADA, 3University of Prince Edward Island, CANADA, 4University of Arizona, USA, and 5Nautilus BioSciences, CANADA

INTERFACING ELECTROCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS WITH MICROFLUIDICS FOR METABOLIC ENGINEERING
Nicholas F.O. Crudele, Laszlo Kekedy-Nagy, Chiara Leal Alves, James M. Perry, and Steve C.C. Shih
Concordia University, CANADA

MicroTAS 2022 Conference, Hangzhou, China and Virtual

ANTIBIOTIC COMBINATION SCREENING VIA ROBOTIC PRINTED COMBINATORIAL DROPLET (ROBODROP) PLATFORM
Fangchi Shao
Johns Hopkins University, USA

MULTIPLEXED, SELF-CALIBRATED POTENTIOMETRIC SENSOR SYSTEM FOR LONG-TERM, IN SITU MEASUREMENTS
Zhehao Zhang
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

MicroTAS 2021 Conference, Palm Springs, USA

HIGH-THROUGHPUT NANOFLUIDIC EXTRACELLULAR VESICLE ISOLATION VIA NANOPOROUS HIERARCHICAL MATERIALS
Andrew Lin
University of Pennsylvania, USA

ON-CHIP ANALYSIS OF SWINE RESPIRATORY VIRUSES USING MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE-ENHANCED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL BIOSENSOR
Qinming Zhang
Iowa State University, USA

QUANTIFICATION OF ANTIBODY BINDING KINETICS ON CELLS AND TISSUES VIA FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING
Prerit Mathur
ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND and IBM Research Europe - Zürich, SWITZERLAND

MicroTAS 2020 Conference, Online

MODULAR TISSUE ASSEMBLY FOR FABRICATION OF COMPLEX AND SCALED UP TISSUE
Byeongwook Jo
University of Tokyo, JAPAN

A MICROFLUIDIC APPROACH TO RAPID CRISPR-BASED DETECTION OF SARS-COV-2 RNA
Ashwin Ramachandran
Stanford University, USA

AI-GUIDED MICROFLUIDIC SYNTHESIS OF COLLOIDAL LEAD HALIDE PEROVSKITE QUANTUM DOTS
Robert Epps
North Carolina State University, USA

MONITORING OF REACTION KINETICS THROUGH THE SYNCHRONIZED RELEASE OF LIPOSOMAL CARGO IN DOUBLE EMULSIONS
Ariane Stucki
ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND

MicroTAS 2019 Conference, Basel, SWITZERLAND

A SIMPLE POINT-OF-CARE TEST DRUG MONITORING IN WHOLE BLOOD OF PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
Henry Ordutowski
KU Leuven, BELGIUM

FLOW RATE DETERMINATION IN CAPILLARY-DRIVEN MICROFLUIDICS USING COMBINATORIAL SELECTION OF RESISTORS VIA ELECTROWETTING AND SMARTPHONE CONTROL
Marie L. Salva
IBM Research - Zürich, SWITZERLAND and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, GERMANY

ENGINEERING A 3D NEURAL CIRCUIT, BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER, AND MYELINATION ON A MICROFLUIDIC 96 WELL PLATE
Seung-Ryeol Lee
Seoul National University, KOREA

MicroTAS 2018 Conference, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

PAPER-BASED SAMPLE-TO-ANSWER RAPID DETECTION OF HIV FROM BLOOD
Taylor J. Moehling
Purdue University, USA

STANDARDIZED, MODULAR PARALLELIZATION PLATFORM FOR MICROFLUIDIC LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION CELL CULTURING CHIPS
Anke R. Vollertsen
University of Twente, THE NETHERLANDS

FULLY AUTOMATED LIGHT TRANSMISSION AGGREGOMETRY ON A DISC FOR POINT OF CARE PLATELET FUNCTION TESTING
Chi-Ju Kim
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), KOREA

MicroTAS 2017 Conference, Savannah, Georgia, USA

MICRO-DISSECTED TISSUE ARRAY: A CHIP-BASED STRATEGY FOR MORPHOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF THERAPEUTIC RESPONSE
Robin Guay-Lord
École Polytechnique de Montréal, CANADA

A MULTI-LAYER, SELF-ALIGNING HYDROGEL MICROMOLDING PROCESS OFFERING A FABRICATION ROUTE TO PERFUSABLE 3D IN-VITRO MICROVASCULATURE
Hossein Heidari
University of California, Berkeley, USA

AN INTEGRATED MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS WEARABLE SWEAT SAMPLING AND SENSING: SOLVING ISSUES WITH NL SAMPLE VOLUMES AND SKIN CONTAMINATION
Adam Hauke
University of Cincinnati, USA

MicroTAS 2016 Conference, Dublin, IRELAND

DEVELOPMENT OF A MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED VALVES AND PHOTODIODES FOR RAPID OPTIMIZATION OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATIONS OF MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES
Inês Pinto
INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, PORTUGAL

ONE-POT MICROSPHERE BARCODING USING FLUORESCENT OLIGONUCLEOTIDES
Milad Dagher
McGill University, CANADA

RECOGNITION OF MICRORNA EXPRESSION PATTERN IN SERUM USING PROGRAMMABLE DROPLET SYSTEM FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS
Moe Hiratani
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, JAPAN

MicroTAS 2015 Conference, Gyeongju, KOREA

TOWARDS GENETIC PROFILING OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
Sunyoung Park
University of British Columbia, CANADA

A NOVEL PAPER FLOW SWITCH THAT ENABLES RAPID PROCESSING OF LARGE VOLUME URINE SAMPLES TO DIAGNOSE CHLAMYDIA AND GONORRHEA
Samantha A. Byrnes
University of Washington, USA

ON-DEMAND FLOW FRACTIONATION SYSTEM ON A PAPER PLATFORM : APPLICATIONS TO CONTINUOUS-FLOW PRECONCENTRATOR AND FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATOR
Seokbin Hong
Sogang University, KOREA

MicroTAS 2014 Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA

2 MIN-INCUBATION AND 6 PM-SENSITIVITY MICROFLUIDIC FLUORESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY - A NOVEL METHOD FOR FURTHER SIGNIFICANT ENHANCEMENT USING LOCAL ELECTRICAL FIELD ON NANOPLASMONIC SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION SURFACE
Ruoming Peng
Princeton University, USA

DISEASE DETECTION BY ULTRASENSITIVE QUANTIFICATION OF MICRODOSED SYNTHETIC URINARY BIOMARKERS
Andrew Warren
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

VEIN-ON-A-CHIP: MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT AND STAINING OF INTACT VEINS
Zhamak Abdi Dezfooli
University of Toronto, CANADA

MicroTAS 2013 Conference, Freiburg, GERMANY

ANTAGONISTIC LIVING MUSCLE ACTUATOR
Yuya Morimoto
University of Tokyo

MICROFLUIDIC VORTEX TECHNOLOGY FOR PURE CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL CONCENTRATION FROM PATIENT BLOOD
James Che
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

LABEL-FREE OPTOFLUIDIC BIOMOLECULAR SENSING USING A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOTWEEZER: THE WIGGLE ASSAY
Pilgyu Kang
Cornell University, USA

MicroTAS 2012 Conference, Okinawa JAPAN

MICROFLUIDIC SAMPLE PREPARATION OF PLEURAL EFFUSIONS FOR CYTODIAGNOSTICS
Albert Mach
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

RAPID QUANTITATION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN AGGLUTINATION WITH ACOUSTIC-ENABLED MICROVORTICES
Arlene Doria
University of California, Irvine, USA

MICROFLUIDIC FABRICATION OF POLYMERIZED IONIC LIQUID MICROGELS
Zahra Barikbin
National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE

MicroTAS 2011 Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA

CHEMICAL WAVEFORM AND SWITCHING VIA ACOUSTICALLY ACTIVATED BUBBLES
Daniel Ahmed
Pennsylvania State University, USA

PARTIPETTING FOR MULTIPLEXED BIOASSAY IN MICROWELLS
Su Eun Chung
Seoul National University, SOUTH KOREA

MASSIVELY PARALLEL MICROFLUIDIC CELL-PAIRING PLATFORM FOR THE STATISTICAL STUDY OF IMMUNOLOGICAL CELL-CELL INTERACTIONS
Melanie Hoehl
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

MicroTAS 2010 Conference, Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

CENTRIFUGE-ON-A-CHIP: SELECTIVE CELL TRAPPING WITH RAPID SOLUTION EXCHANGE IN MICROVORTICE
Albert Mach
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

ISOLATION OF CELL NUCLEUS BY SHORT-TIME CHEMICAL TREATMENT IN CARRIER-MEDIUM EXCHANGE MICROCHANNELS
Kaori Toyama
Chiba University, JAPAN

HYDROGEL MICROBEADS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PCR
Richard Novak
University of California, Berkeley, USA

MicroTAS 2009 Conference, Jeju, KOREA

HIGH-THROUGHPUT CELL SEPARATION USING DIFFERENTIAL INERTIAL MIGRATION FOR RAPID SEPSIS THERAPY
Albert Mach
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

DIFFUSION MEASUREMENT OF BIO-MOLECULES USING RAPID GENERATION OF BLACK HOLE IN A MOLECULAR SOLUTION BY OPTOELECTROFLUIDICS
Hyundoo Hwang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KOREA, SOUTH

HYDROGEL MICROBEADS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT PCR
Aki Adachi
University of Tokyo, USA

MicroTAS 2008 Conference, San Diego, California, USA

OPTOFLUIDIC ENCAPSULATION OF CRYSTALLINE COLLOIDAL ARRAYS USING PHOTOCURABLE DOUBLE EMULSION DROPLETS
Shin-Hyun Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

RAPID ELECTROKINETIC PATTERNING OF COLLOIDAL PARTICLES WITH OPTICAL LANDSCAPES
Stuart Williams
Purdue University, USA

RAPID FABRICATION OF 3D-BRANCHED MICROVASCULAR FLOW NETWORKS
Jen-Huang Huang
Texas A&M University, USA

MicroTAS 2007 Conference, Paris, FRANCE

MANUFACTURE OF DUAL-LAYER MICROBUBBLE LIPOSPHERES AS DRUG DELIVERY VEHICLES IN MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES
Kanaka Hettiarachchi
University of California, Irvine, USA

A PARYLENE BASED DOUBLE-CHANNEL MICRO-ELECTROPHORESIS SYSTEM FOR RAPID MUTATION DETECTION
Sertan Sukas
Middle East Technical University, TURKEY

ULTRA HYDROPHOBIC AND NANO POROUS PLANT LIKE SURFACES FABRICATED BY UV REVERSE SIDE EXPOSURE
Olaf Mertsch
BESSY GmbH, GERMANY

MicroTAS 2006 Conference, Tokyo, JAPAN

MAGNETIC ON-CHIP DNA EXTRACTION IN A DROPLET-BASED MICROSYSTEM
Ulrike Lehmann
EPFL, SWITZERLAND

IN VIVO CHARACTERIZATIONS OF IMPLANTABLE UNPOWERED PARYLENE MEMS INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE SENSORS
Po-Jui Chen
California Institute of Technology, USA

HIGH-DENSITY SPHEROID ARRAYS FOR 3-D LIVER CELL CULTURE AND SECRETION ANALYSIS
Mimi. Y. Zhang
University of California, Berkeley, USA

MicroTAS 2005 Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

LARGE SCALE SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS USING HIGH DENSITY HYDRODYNAMIC TRAPPING ARRAYS
Dino Di Carlo
University of California, Berkeley, USA

A SCALABLE ROW/COLUMN-ADDRESSABLE DIELECTROPHORETIC CELL-TRAPPING ARRAY
Brian Taff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

MICROFLUIDIC CELL CULTURE ARRAY FOR QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY
Philip Lee
University of California, Berkeley, USA