8:30am – Registration
8:50am – Opening Remarks – Abraham Lee, University of California – Irvine
9:00 – 10:30am – Blood Test and Blood Cell Function
9:00-9:30am – Andrew Steckl, University of Cincinnati – Whole Blood Coagulation Monitoring Using Capillary Fluid Flow in Cellulose-Based Devices
9:30-9:50am – Eimear Dunne, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Integrating a microfluidic dynamic platelet function assay device with an easy to use video imaging cytometer: validation and preliminary results
9:50-10:10am – Xinran Lu, University of Minnesota – Using Microfluidics to Quantify Oxygen-Dependent Blood Rheology in Sickle Cell Trait
10:10-10:30am – Emel Islamzada, UBC – Deformability based Sorting of Red Blood Cells and Its Application to Antimalarial Drug Development
10:30 – 11:00am – BREAK
11:00am – 12:30pm – Cell Separation and Analysis
11:00-11:30am – Ian Papautsky, University of Illinois at Chicago – Label-free separation of cells from whole blood
11:30-11:50am – Baris Mutlu, Harvard University – Oscillatory inertial microfluidics for label-free, submicron-scale bioparticle manipulation
11:50-12:10pm – Juhwan Park, KAIST – A simple and rapid blood cross-matching test in a finger-actuated microfluidic device for the urgent transfusion patients
12:10-12:30pm – Andreas Lenshof, Lund University – High performance multiplex acoustophoresis for WBC subpopulation isolation
12:30 – 2:00pm – LUNCH (on own)
2:00-3:00pm – Keynote Presentation
Adrian Bot, VP Translational Sciences, Kite Pharma, Title: “Translation of Yescarta, a first in class CAR product for non-Hodgkin lymphoma”
3:00-4:30pm – Single-cell analysis
3:00-3:30pm – Yanyi Huang, Peking University – Droplets for single cell sequencing
3:30-3:50pm – Sirsendu Bhowmick, SUNY Albany – Multiplexed single cell analysis of human monocytes (THP1): A bright field microscopic approach
3:50-4:10pm – Zhuo Chen, Yale University – Dissecting Cellular Heterogeneity of Trained Immunity via Integrative Single-Cell Analysis
4:10-4:30pm – Xuan Li, University of California – Irvine – Rapid and label-free identification of leukemia cells from blood in a high-density microfluidic single-cell array via Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy
4:30-5:00pm – BREAK
5:00-6:00pm – Industry Panel
6:00-8:00pm – Poster session and reception