Last week Zhejiang University hosted Lab on a Chip’s International Symposium on droplet-based microfluidics in Hangzhou, China.
This high-quality international symposium was an enormous success, with 200 attendees and 22 speakers from around the world. A range of topics were covered, such as “Droplet microfluidics for single studies” by David Weitz (Harvard University), “All-aqueous droplet microfluidics for bio-encapsulation” by Anderson Ho Cheung Shum, (Hong Kong University), “Collective behavior of crowded drops in microfluidic systems” by Sindy Tang (Stanford University) and “Digital microfluidics for chemistry, biology, and medicine” by Aaron Wheeler (University of Toronto). You can read more of Dr Shum’s and Dr Tang’s recently published work on microfluidics in the Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigators 2016 issue.
Droplet-based microfluidics has emerged as one of the most active research fields in microfluidics. As the world’s leading chemistry community, the Royal Society of Chemistry was pleased to collaborate with Zhejiang University to co-organise this symposium, chaired by Prof Qun Fang (Zhejiang University) and co-chaired by Prof Aaron Wheeler (University of Toronto).
Novel microfluidic droplet manipulation technologies were showcased along with their system applications in chemistry, biology, medicine, making this a thoroughly productive interdisciplinary event.
Winners of the Poster Prizes, with Professor Yanyi Huang (far left), Lab on a Chip Advisory Board member, and Maria Southall (far right), Lab on a Chip Deputy Editor
Speakers who presented at the symposium are listed below and also included three Lab on a Chip Associate Editors and multiple Advisory Board members:
- Daniel T. Chiu, University of Washington, United States
- Liangyin Chu, Sichuan University, China
- Petra Dittrich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Wenbin Du, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Yanyi Huang, Peking University, China
- Xingyu Jiang, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, China
- Dong-Pyo Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
- Jinming Lin, Tsinghua University, China
- Baohong Liu, Fudan University, China
- Bifeng Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Jiuan Lv, Fudan University, China
- Nicole Pamme, University of Hull, United Kingdom
- Jianhua Qin, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China
- Anderson Shum, Hongkong University, China
- Sindy KY Tang, Stanford University, United States
- David A. Weitz, Harvard University, United States
- Aaron Wheeler, University of Toronto, Canada
- Xinghua Xia, Nanjing University, China
- Jianhong Xu, Tsinghua University, China
- Jingjuan Xu, Nanjing University, China
- Chaoyong Yang, Xiamen University, China
- Zhiling Zhang, Wuhan University, China
