Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Point of Care Technologies
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Hybrid Microelectronic/Microfluidic Chips for Rare Cell and Rare Exosome Detection Directly in Blood"
8:10 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
"Better/Faster/Cheaper POC NAATs — Pick Three"
9:05 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nucleic Acid Analysis and Next Generation Sequencing
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Quantitative Biology with High Throughput Droplet Microfluidics"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Changing the Definition of Sequencing Drop by Drop"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Microfluidic Single Cell Sequencing"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fields, Forces, and Flows
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Near-Wall Dynamics of Suspended Colloidal Particles in Microscale Shear and Electrokinetic Flow"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
"Inertial Fluid Flow Sculpting: Computational Methods and Applications"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Flow-Structure Interactions
9:00 am - 9:25 am
"Drag Reduction: Microfluidics for Macro Application"
9:25 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
"An Open Issue in Viscoelastic Microfluidics: Multiparticle Dynamics"
10:10 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:25 am
"Microwave Assisted Droplet Sensing, Heating and Mixing and Image Analysis Assisted Droplet Manipulation"
11:25 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"Elastic and Inertial Instabilities in Microfluidic Flows"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wearable and Implantable Systems
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
"Wet Implantable Microsensors"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
"Untethering Diabetes Through Innovative Engineering"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Mechanobiology, Pluripotent Stem Cells, and Early Embryonic Development"
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Feeling for Cell Function: Morpho-Rheological Phenotyping at 1,000 Cells/Sec"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Cellular Mechanics of Hematologic Processes and Diseases"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Logic and Computational Design
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Fluigi: Hardware, Software, and Wetware Automated Design for Synthetic Biology"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
"Computation and Control by Microfluidic Logic"
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
"Microfluidics for the Visual System"
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Active Matter in Microchannels"
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
"Microfluidics: The Gap Betweeen Academia and Manufacturing"
6:40 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:40 pm
"Applications of 3D-Printed Microfluidics: Nanomanufacturing and Biomarker Detection"
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure