Program

08:00 - 09:00      Registration and get together

09:00 - 09:30      Prof. Aharon J. Agranat, The Hebrew University
                            Opening Remarks

09:30 – 10:30      Prof. Stephen Quake, Stanford University.
                             Biological Large Scale Integration.

10:30 – 11:00       Dr. Yaacov Nahmias, The Hebrew University
                             Development of a Microfluidic Transcriptional Activity Array.

11:00 – 11:30       Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00       Dr. Roy Bar-Ziv, The Weizmann Institute.
                             Synthetic Gene Expression Systems on a Chip.

12:00 – 12:30       Dr. Ido Braslavsky: The Hebrew University.
                              Microfluidic-Based Investigation of Ice Binding Proteins

12:30 - 13:00       Prof. Yuri Feldman: The Hebrew University
                             Dielectric Spectroscopy and Biological Sensing

13:00 – 14:30      Lunch

14:30 – 15:15      Prof. Jan Gimsa: The University of Rostock                          
                             AC-Electrokinetics: An Overview of General Principles, Effects,                           

                             Methods and Medical Applications

15:15 – 15:45      Prof. Micha Spira: The Hebrew University                         
                             Bio-Inspired Breakthrough: Functional Interface Between Nerve Cells                      

                             and Micro/Nano-Electronic Devices

15:45 – 16:15      Coffee Break

16:15 – 16:45       Prof. Uriel Levy: The Hebrew University.
                              Integrated Nanophotonic Platform for Label Free Biosensing

16:45 – 17:15       Dr. Eran Socher: Tel Aviv University
                             Challenges and Opportunities for mm Wave CMOS Integrated Circuits in Bio-Sensing.

17:15 – 17:45       Dr. Gilad Yossifon: The Technion
                              Non-Linear Electrokinetics of Nanochannels.

17:45 – 18:00        Concluding Remarks