Juliens Cors awarded Best Poster at Nanotech Montreux Conference
Juliens Cors, our external PhD student from the S&T dept (AMI group), received the award for best poster at the 19th edition of the International Conference for Micro & Nanotechnologies for the Biosciences in Montreux, Switzerland for this work “Microscale biopatterning with hydrodynamically confined liquids on a scanning probe”co-authored with D. Taylor, J. Autebert and G. V. Kaigala.
In his poster, Julien address a fundamental question inherent to surface-based bioassays: how to efficiently use a defined sub-microliter volume of biochemicals to locally process a surface, while ensuring fast kinetics and high-quality of deposition homogeneity of proteins? Patterning receptors (proteins) on surfaces is fundamentally important in diagnostic and research. The method proposed in this work relies on hydrodynamically confined nanoliter volumes of reagents to interact with biological substrates at the micrometer-length scale. Such methods and associated microdevices may facilitate truly quantitative biological assays leading the way for precision diagnostics.
This work was performed as part of external pageBioProbecall_made, a project funded by the European Research Council. Academically, Julien is affiliated to the laboratory of Professor Bradley Nelson in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich.