Screenshot-Collage: RCI’s Winter 2011 Lecture: January 30, 2011Big Discoveries Made in Small Laboratories-on-a-ChipEugenia Kumacheva, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, U of T The Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science
RCI’s Winter 2011 Lecture Sunday, January 30 at 3 pmBig Discoveries Made in Small Laboratories-on-a-ChipEugenia Kumacheva, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, U of Tekumache@chem.utoronto.cahttp://www.chem.utoronto.ca/staff/EK/Recent years have seen remarkable progress in the development of miniature laboratories ("labs on chips"). This research field has been stimulated by the ability to carry out rapid, controllable and highly reproducible experiments on very small scales and in a highly parallelized manner.
"Labs on chips" defined new operational paradigms and paved the way for discoveries to be done in the most time-efficient and labour-saving way. In my lecture, I will show how research conducted in "labs on chips" has led to high value materials, new knowledge about the changes occurring in the environment and in cell biology, and efficient tools for medical diagnostics.
FREE public one-hour lectures followed by a question period
Sundays at 3 pm (doors open at 2:15)
MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
1 King’s College Circle (Nearest Subway is Queen’s Park Station)
Parking on campus, pay/display; limited disabled parking available
Credit:The Royal Canadian Institute700 University Avenue H-7D, Toronto ON M5G 1X6
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e-mail: royalcanadianinstitute@sympatico.cawebsite:
http://www.royalcanadianinstitute.orglinks:utoronto.ca: Eugenia Kumacheva's Polymers, Interfaces, and Materials Science Group
The research program covers a broad range of polymer and materials science disciplines. The research themes include polymer and hybrid polymer- inorganic materials, nanostructured materials, self-assembly, gels, biomaterials, and microfluidics. >>> read more
inventivewomen.com: Invention: Three-Dimensional System for Computer Data Storage - Inventor: Dr. Eugenia Kumacheva
Dr. Kumacheva, with her team, has developed a technology to improve binary information storage. As much as 10,000 gigabytes of information can be stored in the three dimensional device which is half the size of a sugar cube. >>>read more
wikipedia.org: Lab-on-a-chip
A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single chip of only millimeters to a few square centimeters in size. >>> read more
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sciencedaily.com: Lab-on-a-Chip at Home: Make Your Own Microfluidic Testing Device With New Kit
A type of device called a "lab-on-a-chip" could bring a new generation of instant home tests for illnesses, food contaminants and toxic gases. But today these portable, efficient tools are often stuck in the lab themselves. Specifically, in the labs of researchers who know how to make them from scratch. >>> read more
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