2019 BEL-PEL Conference

Final Program

9:30 – 10:00  Welcome Coffee

10:00 – 10:15   Andreas Hierlemann (ETHZ-BSSE)

Welcome and introduction

10:15 – 10:45   Renato Paro (ETHZ-BSSE)

Tutorial: Cancer epigenetics

10:45 – 11:05   Karen Cheung  (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Inkjet-based single cell dispensing

11:05 – 11:30  Coffee Break

11:30 – 11:50   Judith Cerda-Belmonte (UNIQA, Vienna, Austria)

Application of nature catastrophe models in insurance

11:50 – 12:10   Xinyue Yuan (ETHZ-BSSE)

Dual-mode microelectrode array for high-throughput recording of extracellular signals

12:10 – 12:30   Paolo Ravaynia, Oanh Nguyen (ETHZ-BSSE)

Health applications of advanced microfluidic platforms

12:30 – 14:30  Lunch and Optional Lab Tours

14:30 – 14:50   Oliver Paul (IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Germany)

De Füüfer und s'Weggli: New results on half-blind calibration

14:50 – 15:10  Flavio Heer (Zurich Instruments, Zurich, CH)

Electronics for quantum computing        

15:10 – 15:30   Markus Graf (Sensirion, Stäfa, CH)

Sensors for the future - or how to measure the environment in a smart way

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:20   Andreas Häberli, DormaKaba, Rümlang, CH)

Transforming Product Development with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

16:20 – 16:40  Jose Garcia Cordero (Cinvestav-IPN, Monterrey, Mexico)

Microfluidic technologies for analyzing immune cells

16:40 – 17:00   Michele Fiscella, Marie Obien (MaxWell, Basel, CH)

The art of shovel selling in pharma: MaxWell and the rush for a more effective preclinical drug development pipeline

18:00  Dinner at BSSE