报告题目：微流控在超高通量生化分析中的应用

报告人：Andrew deMello

讲座时间：2019年3月25日（周一）上午10：00

讲座地点：国际会议中心第一会议室

邀请人：马炳和教授

承办学院：机电学院

联系人：国际合作处武怡琼

联系电话：88491264

报告简介：

The past 25 years have seen considerable progress in the development of microfabricated systems for use in the chemical and biological sciences. Interest in microfluidic technology has driven by concomitant advances in the areas of genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, high-throughput screening and diagnostics, with a clearly defined need to perform rapid measurements on small sample volumes. At a basic level, microfluidic activities have been stimulated by the fact that physical processes can be more easily controlled when instrumental dimensions are reduced to the micron scale.¹The relevance of such technology is significant and characterized by a range of features that accompany system miniaturization.

My lecture will discuss how the spontaneous formation of droplets in microfluidic systems can be exploited to perform a variety of complex analytical processesand why the marriage of such systems with optical spectroscopies provides a direct route to high-throughput and high-information content experimentation.

Droplet-based microfluidic systems allow the generation and manipulation of discrete droplets contained within an immiscible continuous phase.²They leverage immiscibility to create discrete volumes that reside and move within a continuous flow. Significantly, such segmented-flows allow for the production of monodisperse droplets at rates in excess of tens of KHz and independent control of each droplet in terms of size, position and chemical makeup. Moreover, the use of droplets in complex chemical and biological processing relies on the ability to perform a range of integrated, unit operations in high- throughput. Such operations include droplet generation, droplet merging/fusion, droplet sorting, droplet splitting, droplet dilution, droplet storage & droplet sampling.^3-4I will provide examples of how droplet-based microfluidic systems can be used to perform a range of experiments including nanomaterial synthesis,⁵cell-based assays⁶and DNA amplification.

The considerable advantages that are afforded through the use of microfluidic systems are in large part made possible by system downscaling and the associated improvements in mass and thermal transfer. Nonetheless, handling and processing fluids with instantaneous volumes on the fL-nL scale represents a critical challenge for molecular detection, and still defines one of the key limitations in the use of a microfluidic system in a given application. To this end, I will also describe recent studies focused on the development of novel imaging flow cytometry platform that leverages the integration of inertial microfluidics with stroboscopic illumination⁸to allow for high-resolution imaging of cells at throughputs approaching 10⁵cells/second.

报告人简介：

Andrew deMello，苏黎世联邦理工大学教授，化学和生物工程研究所所长，34岁任帝国理工正教授（至今仍保持最年轻的记录），同时他还是Molecular Vision及DropTech的联合创始人。deMello教授是微流控、分析化学等领域的知名科学家，在Nature、Science、Nature Chemistry等著名期刊上发表300余篇学术论文，获得专利22项，受邀进行各类学术演讲350余次，曾获包括英国皇家化学学会等在内颁发的多项荣誉，任Analytical Chemistry, Advanced Materials Technologies, Chemistry World, The Journal of Flow Chemistry及Chem等期刊编委或主编。