2022 BEL-PEL Conference

Program

9:30 – 10:00  Welcome Coffee

10:00 – 10:10   Andreas Hierlemann (ETHZ, BEL)

Welcome and introduction

10:10 – 10:30   Simone Schürle (ETHZ, D-ITET)

Engineering microrobots for medicine

10:30 – 10:50   external page Jihyun Lee, external page Xiaohan Xue  (ETHZ, BEL)

Electroporation-based intracellular recordings for cardiotoxicity testing
Probing synaptic connectivity by combined Ca²⁺ imaging and microelectrode array recordings

10:50 – 11:10   external page Ulrich Münch (MUC+, Lausanne, CH, external page Solarplattform Schweiz)

Will the energy transition succeed?

11:10 – 11:40  Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:00   Nako Nakatsuka (ETHZ, D-ITET)

Miniature biosensors to unravel brain diseases

12:00 – 12:20   Christofer Hierold (ETHZ, D-MAVT)

Paradigm shift in nanosensor fabrication?

12:20 – 12:40   external page Sadik Hafizovic, (Zurich Instruments, Zurich, CH)

Quantum computing: the exciting days of the exponential beginning

12:40 – 14:30  Lunch and Optional Lab Tours

14:30 – 14:50   Mustafa Khammash (ETHZ, D-BSSE)

Cybergenetics: Automatic control of living cells

14:50 – 15:10  external page Nicole Kerness (Rheonix Inc., Ithaca, USA)

PCR based testing for COVID and ramping up production capacity for consumables   

15:10 – 15:30   external page Oliver Paul (IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Germany)

Bayesian sensor calibration

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:20   external page Furkan Gökce, Wei Wei (ETHZ, BEL)

Adding liver metabolism to leukemia drug screening
Dynamic, 3D in vitro blood-brain-barrier model

16:20 – 16:40  external page Silvia Ronchi (MaxWell Biosystems, Zurich, CH)

Bringing products into the world at MaxWell Biosystems

16:40 – 17:00   external page Edward T. Zellers (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

Moi? VOC sensors, microsystems, and life

18:00  Dinner at BSSE