Microfluidic Horizons 2026

Session

Wednesday 20/05, 9 - 13; Auditorium

W1-A

May 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

114. Microfluidic Conditioning for Studying Learning and Adaptive Dynamics in Bacteria

Xavier Viader-Godoy (Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

5/20/26, 10:00 AM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Biological systems are a unique class of active matter in which individual units —living cells— consume energy to process information and adapt to changing environments. Investigating such adaptive responses requires experimental platforms capable of delivering precisely controlled, time-dependent stimuli while enabling long-term, high-resolution observation at the single-cell level. Here we...

161. Tracking microbial interactions, metabolic and population dynamics in paired microfluidic chambers

Giovanni Stefano Ugolini (ETH Zurich)

5/20/26, 10:20 AM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Microbial interactions are fundamental to the assembly and function of microbiomes. Yet, our understanding of how specific interaction mechanisms can drive broader ecological outcomes and population dynamics remains limited. We describe the use of a microfluidic geometry that enables direct population pairing, cell observation and tracking, as well as quantitative metabolite detection, to...

184. A Microfluidic Toolbox to Study Bacterial Surface Exploration

5/20/26, 10:40 AM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Understanding how physical and chemical cues shape the organization of bacteria on surfaces is essential, particularly in the context of biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance. Biofilms arise when bacteria colonize solid substrates, a process that occurs across a wide range of biological tissues and synthetic materials. In the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, early surface...

185. Microfluidics and polariton chemistry

Valentina Arima (CNR NANOTEC - Institute of Nanotechnology c/o Campus Ecotekne, University of Salento, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce - Italy)

5/20/26, 12:20 PM

Analytical and chemical applications

Oral

Microfluidics focuses on the manipulation of fluids at the micrometer scale, enabling precise flow control, transport, and reaction conditions. This technology has gained increasing importance in biomedical and bioanalytical research, leading to microfluidic systems capable of reproducing physiologically relevant flow and transport phenomena in cellular microenvironments [1] or efficient cell...

125. OPERATING REGIMES AND DESIGN RULES FOR MICROSCALE SURFACE ION CONDUCTION SENSING

5/20/26, 12:40 PM

Analytical and chemical applications

Oral

Electrokinetic and electrochemical sensors have several advantages over lab-based assays. In many cases, sensors are more rapid, with fewer reagent additions and sample pretreatment steps. Sensors that leverage the influence of a target recognition event on charge transport are among the most sensitive because they translate localized target binding into a change in a system-scale property....