Course Description

Duration 2 day(s)

Language English    Venue Neuchatel, Switzerland

Country 

Course fee 980,00    Currency CHF    

Description
Microfluidic systems, fabricated using microsystems technologies, open new ways of
working in many disciplines. Chemical analysis in particular has benefited from this trend,
with demonstration of performance enhancement for techniques like capillary
electrophoresis in chemically etched microchannel manifolds. More recently, researchers
have been exploring the use of micromachined structures for chemical synthesis, with a
huge range of potential applications, including the very small-volume synthesis of
combinatorial libraries, as well as reduction of macroscopic industrial reactors to arrays of
many parallel microreactors. With the first chip-based, commercially available analytical
instruments imminent, the technology is drawing more interest in the life sciences
domain, particularly for drug discovery applications. Integrated chemistry and biology on
chips is thus increasingly application driven, ensuring that the use of these devices will no
longer be confined to research labs in the near future.
This introductory course offers participants a unique opportunity to gain a practical insight
into the design, fabrication, and implementation of microfabricated devices for selected
bioanalytical applications. A series of cleanroom and laboratory demonstrations make up
the core of the course. These are supported by a number of lectures to provide a general
overview of the area, as well as a theoretical basis for the selected laboratory examples.

Course Contents and Time Table
Introductory lectures and laboratory work will be provided in the following fields :
- Microsystem technology
- Various analytical concepts such as On-chip capillary electrophoresis,
enzymatic microreactors and electrochemiluminescence detection systems

Audience
Researchers and engineers in universities and industry who are interested in evaluating
the use of microtechnologies, particularly from the point of view of practical and technical
issues, for applications in the life sciences.

Lecturers
Team of Prof. Nico de Rooij, University of Neuchâtel IMT (CH)

Further information
FSRM
Annette Locher
Locher@fsrm.ch