Confirmed Speakers


Ruedi Aebersold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, "Microseparations in Systems Biology“
Chong Ahn, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, "Protein Lab-on-a-Chip on Polymer For Point-of-Care Clinical Diagnostics“
Yoshinobu Baba, Nagoya University, Japan, "Microfluidics for Single Biomolecule and Single Cell Research“
Antje Baeumner, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, "Microfluidic biosensors for Nucleic Acids and Protein Detection“
Annelise Barron, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, "Ultra-fast DNA sequencing and genotyping in microfluidic chips - A new hybrid mechanism of separation"
Sangeeta Bhatia, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, TBA
Karl-Siegfried Boos, University of Munich, Germany, "Making whole blood applicable for on-line separation and detection in bioanalysis“
Jeff Chapman, Beckman Coulter Inc., Fullerton, CA, USA, "From Therapeutic Proteins to Biomarker Discovery - Advancing CE-MS/MS to Tackle Complex Biological Questions“
David Chen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, "Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis as a Main Stream Tool for Characterization of Protein Binding Interactions“
Marcella Chiari, Italian National Research Council, Milano, Italy, "Integration of materials and function in analytical microdevices“
Steven Cohen, Water Corporation, Milford, MA, USA, "Towards an Integrated System for Microfluidic HPLC“
Jon Cooper, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, "Single Cell Proteomics in Microfluidic Systems"
Ersilia De Lorenzi, University of Pavia, Italy, "Identification and characterization of transient protein conformers populating the fibrillogenic pathway“
Andrew deMello, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, "Multi-dimensional Fluorescence: An Ultra-Sensitive Probe of Nanoscale Phenomena“
Gerd Desmet, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, "Liquid Phase Chromatography Separation in Micro- and Nano-pillar Columns“
Katja Dettmer, University of Regensburg, Germany, "Scaling separation technologies for metabolomics“
Norman Dovichi, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, "Chemical cytometry: the chemical analysis of the cell“
Jens Ducrée, HSG-IMIT, Germany, "Centrifugal microfluidics - A new spin to the lab?“
Andrew Ewing, Penn State University, USA, "Volume-Limited Capillary Electrophoretic Separations in Neuroscience“
Albert Folch, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, TBA
Frantisek Foret, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic, "Microfluidics and nanotechnology for high resolution bioanalysis“
Günter Fuhr, Fraunhofer Institut for Biomedicine Technique, St. Ingbert, Germany, "Do we need nanotechnology-based in vitro culture systems for animal and human cells?"
Bohuslav Gas, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, "Advanced computer simulation of separation processes“
Andras Guttman, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria, "Study of structure-mobility relationship in peptide analysis by CEC“
Norberto Guzman, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical, Raritan, NJ, USA, "Development of a Novel Immunoaffinity Capillary Electrophoresis-Based Biomarker Analyzer with High-Throughput Capabilities“
Jed Harrison, University of Alberta, Edminton, Canada, "Microfluidic Systems in Protein Analysis“
Jack Henion, Advion Biosciences, Ithaca, NY, USA, "Automated Chip-Based Nanoelectrospray for Life Sciences Studies of Small and Large Molecules“
Stellan Hjerten, Uppsala University, Sweden, "Novel Approaches to Improve Resolution and Performance in Capillary and Micro-Chip Electrophoresis“
Christian Huber, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, "Multidimensional liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry technology for proteome analysis“
Stephen Jacobson, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, "Separations at the Micro- and Nanoscale“
Klavs Jensen, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, TBA
Franka Kalman, Solvias AG, Basel, Switzerland, "IEF of therapeutic proteins for quality control in the pharmaceutical industry“
Barry Karger, Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, "Recent advances in both the technology and application of LC/MS to ultratrace proteomic analysis“
Ernst Kenndler, University of Vienna, Austria, "Virus analysis by electrophoresis in capillaries and on microfluidic chips“
Robert Kennedy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, "Analysis of Continuous and Segmented Flow Streams on Chips: Application to Separations-Based Sensors“
Takehiko Kitamori, University of Tokyo, Japan, "Extended Nano Space for Analysis at Single Molecule Level“
Jörg Kutter, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, "Combining microfluidics and small angle X-ray scatterin: a new tool for structural biology“
Ulf Landegren, University of Uppsala, Sweden, "Tools to study individual molecules and the company they keep“
James Landers, University of Virgina, Charlottsville, VA, USA, TBA
Thomas Laurell, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, TBA
Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, "From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology“
Bingcheng Lin, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China, "Integrated Microfluidic Device for High Content Cell-based Drug Screening“
Wolfgang Lindner, University of Vienna, Austria, "Chemoselective tagging and trapping strategies In peptide and protein Analysis by LC-MS/MS methologies“
Michael Linscheid, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, "Metals for Quantitation of Biopolymers using Mass Spectrometry - New Horizons in Sensitivity and Accuracy"
Marc Madou, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, "Carbon MEMS and carbon NEMS“
Matthias Mann, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, "Towards whole proteome quantitation“
Richard Mathies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, "Integrated Microfluidic Bioprocessors“
Helmut Meyer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, "High Performance Proteomics as a Tool in Biomarker Discovery“
Christian Neusüß, University of Aalen, Germany, "Glycan Analysis by CE-MS“
Jeremy Nicholson, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, "Personalized Medicine and Molecular Epidemiology the Challenge of Analyzing and Modelling Metabolic Supersystems“
Staffan Nilsson, University of Lund, Sweden, "A voyage through NanoLand: From "wall-less" test-tubes through nanoparticle-based CEC to nano-biosensors“
Milos Novotny, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA, "Glycomic and Glycoproteomic Separations and Measurements in Biology and Medicine“
Sumita Pennathur, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, "A theoretical and experimental investigation into the unique physics of nanofluidics“
Michael Ramsey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, "Nano- and Microtechnology for Acquiring Chemical and Biochemical Information“
Fred Regnier, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, TBA
Johan Roeraade, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, "Micro and Nano Delivery of Fluids“
Gerard Rozing, Agilent Technologies, Waldbronn, Germany, "About the influence of geometrical properties of microscale separation devices on the performance of liquid chromatography“
Pat Sandra, Ghent University, Belgium, TBA
Andreas Schmid, University of Dortmund, Germany, "A system approach to single cell biochemistry“
Minoru Seki, Chiba University, Japan, TBA
Stephen Soper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, "Integrated Microfluidic System for Monitoring Molecular Association Events“
Frantisek Svec, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, "Monolithic Columns for Proteomics“
Jonathan Sweedler, University of Illinois, Urbana, ILL, USA, TBA
Ulrich Tallarek, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, "Ionic conductance of nanopores in microscale analysis systems: Where microfluidics meets nanofluidics“
Nobuo Tanaka, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, "Highly efficient monolithic silica capillary columns for HILIC-, ion-exchange-, and reversed phase mode liquid chromatography, and multidimensional applications“
Wolfgang Thormann, University of Bern, Switzerland, "Clinical diagnostics by CE“
Albert van den Berg, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, "From Lab-on-a-Chip to Lab-in-a-Cell"
Sabeth Verpoorte, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, "Microfluidic Strategies for Analysis of Adherent Cells and Tissue"
Jean-Luc Veuthey, University of Geneva, Switzerland, "Use of separation techniques for performing enzymatic studies“
Jean-Luis Viovy, Institute Curie, Paris, France, "Biphasic systems in microfluidics: the best of two worlds?“
Mathias Wilm, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, TBA
Paul Yager, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, TBA
Ed Yeung, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, "On-column Assay of Single Microcrystals of an Enzyme“