BioMiNT Laboratory News

LabAutomation 2010: Association for Laboratory Automation names Dr. Abe Lee as Innovation Award Finalist, December 9, 2009

MicroTAS 2009: Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize 2009 awarded to Dr. Abe Lee, November 3, 2009

Nature Methods Publishing Technology Feature Interview: Microfluidics: the great divide, September 15, 2009

UCI Graduate Division Announcement: Shia-Yen Teh has been named a fellow in the 2009 President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship Program, June 08, 2009

RSC Publishing Chemical Technology Interview: Seeking the killer application, April 8, 2009

RSC Publishing Announcement: Professor Abraham Lee named a new member of the Lab on a Chip Editorial Board, Jan 9, 2009

UC Irvine Press Release: California funds UCI stem cell sorting, tracking research, Dec 11, 2008

Congratulations to Dylan Boyle and Neha Garg for winning 3rd place in the Art in Science competition sponsored by the Optics Society and the Beckman Laser Institute (Nov.17, 2016). There were about 30 entries in the competition. Neha and Dylan placed with an artistic photo of green fluorescent microparticles trapped in on-chip vortices.

LabTV interviews featuring BioMiNT students: Neha Garg, Crystal Rapier, Derek Vallejo, Edward Yue

Conrgatulations to Neha Garg for receiving the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Award for the 2015-2016 year!

Congratulations to Derek Vallejo for being invited to give an oral presentation at the upcoming 2015 Microfluidics Gordon Research Seminar on "Interfaces, Molecules, and Assays at the Microscale". 8 student/post-doc speakers were selected based on abstracts from over 70 applications.

Congratulations to Derek Vallejo for receiving the Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship to support your participation in the 2015 Physics & Chemistry of Microfluidics GRC. He also will present a poster presentation at the subsequent Gordon Research Conference on "Microscale Technology for Advancing and Translating Discovery".

Congratulations to David Bardin as our latest paper on "Low-cost experimentation for the study of droplet microfluidics" is the most downloaded paper in Lab on a Chip!

UCI Hosts 15th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium,June 18-20, 2014 - Check out the plenary speakers, deadlines for abstract submissions and the first ever junior faculty & student shark tanks!

NSF I/UCRC Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM) is officially launched with 13 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Members (see press release).

Congratulations to Roger Shih, who was selected as a finalist in the doctoral student poster competition (18 out of 80) at the ASME 2014 3rd Global Congress on NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB2014) .

Through MF3 we are launching a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled “Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM).” The kick-off Industrial Advisory Board Meeting will be held April 10-11, 2014. Please visit the CADMIM website for more information: www.inrf.uci.edu/cadmim.

Our recent Biomicrofluidics paper on high speed droplet generation is a top 20 download for the month of July (2013)

Congratulations to Melinda Simon and Arlene Doria for each winning a poster award at EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference, Maui MNM Conference.December, 2012

Congratulations to Yu-Hsiang (Shawn) Hsu for getting the issue 1, 2013 cover of Lab on a Chip with his excellent work: Full range physiological mass transport control in 3D tissue cultures". Art work by the amazing Kanaka! Lab on a ChipOctober 22, 2012

Congratulations to Arlene Doria in winning one of four poster awards of the ~600 posters at the Sixteenth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences MicroTAS 2012.October, 2012

Congratulations to Melinda Simon who was chosen as this year's ARCS Fellowship recipient for The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. The ARCS Fellowship rewards our most academically superior doctoral students who exhibit outstanding promise. September 24, 2012

Dr. Steven C. George receives NIH funds to develop tissue chips to help predict drug safety. Dr. Abe Lee is included as one of the eight team members in this investigation for his expertise in microfluidics and microfabrication. Headline.July 24, 2012

In collaboration with Abe Lee's group, Antigen Discovery Inc. is awarded a phase I SBIR grant to develop a fully integrated, microfluidic point of care device. Market Watch.Aug 15, 2012

Congratulations to David Bardin in winning a poster award at the 4th International Symposium on Microchemistry and Microsystems ISMM.June 13, 2012

Mindy Simon's Laplace trap paper was the 10th most downloaded from the biomicrofluidics website for March. Biomicrofluidics.March 2012

Shia-Yen Teh's paper on lipid spheres has been selected for the December 15, 2011 issue of : Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.January 4, 2012

Shia-Yen Teh's work on a new device that creates lipid spheres that mimic cell membranes is highlighted in : Medical Daily and NanoWerk, December 16, 2011

During the month of October, Andrew Hatch's "1-Million droplet array with wide-field fluorescence imaging for digital PCR" was amongst the top ten accessed articles from the online version of Lab on a Chip. : Access Article, November 28, 2011

Maulik Patel's videos of on-chip cell/particle switches using air-liquid cavity acoustic transders is highlighted in LOC YouTube Videos on the RSC Publishing, Lab on a Chip Blog: LOC Youtube Video, November 22, 2011

David Bardin's work with droplets is a hot article on Lab on a Chip and is highlighed on RSC's blog: Lab on a Chip Blog, November 11, 2011

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship highlights David Bardin's work with droplets: New Approach in Tumor Imaging, October 24, 2011

Royal Society of Chemistry features our work with droplets in a Chemistry World article: Bubble trouble eliminated in cancer treatment, October 20, 2011

GenomeWeb features our work with droplet arrays in a PCR Insider article : UC Irvine Team Details 1M-Droplet Array for Digital PCR, Claims Advantages over Other Methods, October 20, 2011

The Genetic Engineering Biotechnology News (GEN) magazine features MF3 article: MF3 Fosters Micro/Nanofluidic Collaborations, April 1, 2011

SPIE Publishing Microfluidics Feature Interview: Microfluidics streamlines laboratory operations, December 7, 2010

UCI Irvine Announcement: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering announced that Dr. Abe Lee has been named the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, April 12, 2010

Shia-Yen Teh's work on a new device that creates lipid spheres that mimic cell membranes is highlighted in : Medical Daily and NanoWerk, December 16, 2011

During the month of October, Andrew Hatch's "1-Million droplet array with wide-field fluorescence imaging for digital PCR" was amongst the top ten accessed articles from the online version of Lab on a Chip. : Access Article, November 28, 2011

Maulik Patel's videos of on-chip cell/particle switches using air-liquid cavity acoustic transders is highlighted in LOC YouTube Videos on the RSC Publishing, Lab on a Chip Blog: LOC Youtube Video, November 22, 2011

David Bardin's work with droplets is a hot article on Lab on a Chip and is highlighed on RSC's blog: Lab on a Chip Blog, November 11, 2011

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship highlights David Bardin's work with droplets: New Approach in Tumor Imaging, October 24, 2011

Royal Society of Chemistry features our work with droplets in a Chemistry World article: Bubble trouble eliminated in cancer treatment, October 20, 2011

GenomeWeb features our work with droplet arrays in a PCR Insider article : UC Irvine Team Details 1M-Droplet Array for Digital PCR, Claims Advantages over Other Methods, October 20, 2011

The Genetic Engineering Biotechnology News (GEN) magazine features MF3 article: MF3 Fosters Micro/Nanofluidic Collaborations, April 1, 2011

SPIE Publishing Microfluidics Feature Interview: Microfluidics streamlines laboratory operations, December 7, 2010

UCI Irvine Announcement: The Henry Samueli School of Engineering announced that Dr. Abe Lee has been named the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, April 12, 2010

7th Annual Industry Research Symposium: Jente Lu receives 2008 Fariborz Maseeh Best Research Poster Award

May 19, 2008

Lab on a Chip Critical Review Paper: Droplet Microfluidics.

Jan 11, 2008

Biochips Publication: Integrated Biochips for DNA Analysis.

Irvine, Calif., Jan 01, 2008---------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------------------

UC Irvine Press Release: UCI scientists find new way to sort stem cells,

Irvine, Calif., Dec 20, 2007---------------------------- --------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------

microTAS 2007: Kanaka Hettiarachchi receives best poster award (uTAS 07 | Photo), ---------------------------- --------------------------------- -------------

Paris, France, Oct 12, 2007

UCSF Mission Bay Campus: Kanaka Hettiarachchi receives podium talk award at the 8th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium. ----------

San Francisco, Calif., June 17, 2007

Orange County Register: Art via microfabrication - Research into new techniques for microscopic manufacturing is creating intriguing images. ----------------------------------- --------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- ----------- ----------- Irvine, Calif., April 10, 2007
Orange County Register: UCI studies power of a droplet -
Mini-streams of fluid can improve things from electronics to medical diagnosis.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------Irvine, Calif., March 03, 2007
UC Irvine Press Release: UC Irvine establishes center to study small-scale fluidic behavior - Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center receives $7.2 million over three years to advance science believed key to unlocking vast array of new technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------Irvine, Calif., February 26, 2007
Analytical Chemistry - New Material World Article:----------------------- Vesicle making goes microfluidic -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Vol. 78, No. 13: July 1, 2006
RSC Chemical Science Supplement: Reaction system that measures, mixes and reacts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------January 31, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

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