Description
Date: 13-14 September 2022
Location: Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Attention: This is an in-person event and Corona measures at Radboudumc applies.
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TARGET GROUP: Biologists and non-technical biomedical scientists who are working or want to start working with organ-on-a-chip systems.
Radboudumc Stem Cells Technology Center and AZAR Innovations jointly organise an Organ-on-a-chip MasterClass with the following themes:
- Brain, central nervous system, and retina
- Skeletal muscles
- Vasculature
- Organs on chips are small medical devices in which researchers can grow living cells to model human organ functions.
- Setting up and operating these small chips with a fluidic system around it requires learning basic principles of physical processes, tools and methods.
- This is a MasterClass where biologists and non-technical users of these systems learn how to choose, set up and work with organ on chips.
This MasterClass consists of:
1. Lectures by AZAR Innovations
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- Organ-on-a-chip designs and configurations: helps participants choose or design an organ-on-a-chip system
- Organ-on-a-chip components: enables participants independently choose and implement different components and modules in an organ-on-a-chip system
- Organ-on-a-chip operation: simple but important know-hows about preparation, cell seeding, microfluidic theories and troubleshooting methods (e.g. bubbles and leakages)
- Commercial Organ-on-chips: help participants choose the right system, organ-on-a-chip companies and resources
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2. Hands-on lab sessions by AZAR Innovations
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- Set up Organ on chips: learn about different perfusion technologies, learn how to connect different components, learn how to prepare chips and seed cells in the chips.
- Operate Organ on chips: tips & tricks, must-know practical information, troubleshoot problems
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3. Expert view (online)
Dr. Javier Ramón Azcón
ICREA Professor at Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC)
ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Regina Luttge
Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Group Luttge, Microsystems division
Dr. Marc Vila Cuenca
Postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
Orlova Lab and CADASIL research group.
Department of Anatomy and Embryology and Department of Clinical Genetics
4. Hands-on lab sessions with commercial products
more companies to be confirmed:
CytoSMART Technologies is a biotechnology company and innovator in bright-field and fluorescent live-cell imaging. We combine compact and fast imaging hardware with powerful image analysis algorithms supported by cloud computing to generate high-quality and robust data for scientific experiments.
ibidi is a leading supplier of functional cell-based assays and products for cell microscopy. The ibidi range of products offers organ-on-a-chip solutions for classic cell culturing, and also complex assays (e.g., angiogenesis, chemotaxis, and wound healing). ibidi also specializes in instruments, such as a unique perfusion system for the simulation of blood vessels.
Organ-on-chip systems made easy. IMcoMET presents The Porcupine: a plug-and-play microfluidic system. It allows long-term perfusion of up to six models simultaneously. It also offers the unique possibility to sample the micro-environment and locally deliver drugs. It fits any format, standard or custom-made and can be easily adapted to your specific needs.
5. Organ-on-a-chip Challenge
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- Design your idea in an Organ on a chip: Working in a group, you will given a problem to solve. We will help you understand important aspects in every step of the way, and through this, you will learn the important factors from the design to validation of an organ-on-a-chip system.
- Work in a group: You will learn tips & tricks, and useful information from your peers through instructed sessions.
You can find more information about this MasterClass here.
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