Microfluidic Horizons 2026

Session

Thursday 21/05, 14 - 19; Room 35

Th2-B

May 21, 2026, 2:00 PM

106. Cutting-Edge Trends in Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry

Federica Caselli (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ingegneria Informatica, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")

5/21/26, 3:00 PM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Microfluidic impedance cytometry (MIC) is a label-free, high-throughput technique that characterizes individual flowing particles/cells based on their interaction with a multifrequency electric field [1]. It has been successfully applied in various scenarios, including life-science research, diagnostics, and environmental monitoring. In this talk, I will discuss two emerging trends that...

209. Impact of microalgae physical properties on inertial migration in spiral microchannels

Mr Sylvain Capet (Institut Clément Ader (ICA), Université de Toulouse CNRS, INSA, ISAE-SUPAERO, IMT Mines-Albi, Toulouse, France)

5/21/26, 3:20 PM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Microfluidics has emerged as a powerful tool for the manipulation of bioparticles, enabling operations such as sorting, immobilization and encapsulation. While these approaches are predominantly applied in biomedical and environmental diagnostics, their extension to industrial processes remains limited. One such application is the production of microalgae-based biofuels, for which the...

103. Field-free trapping and control of microbes by flow shaping

5/21/26, 3:40 PM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Studies of microbial behavior often require trapping and steering single cells while preserving their motility and stimulus–response dynamics. Existing manipulation techniques achieve precise control using optical, acoustic, electric, or magnetic fields, but these approaches introduce additional forces that can conflate field-mediated microbial responses and limit the interpretation of...

159. Microfluidic tools for genotyping and phenotyping single cells

5/21/26, 4:00 PM

Cells, microbes, and extracellular vesicles manipulation

Oral

Over the past decade, microfluidic technology has greatly impacted the throughput and precision of single-cell genomic analysis such that tens of thousands of cells can be profiled in a single experiment. The dominant method for single-cell genomic analysis has been single-cell RNA sequencing, and recent development of droplet microfluidic platforms has enabled the generation of large-scale...