International Symposium on LifeChips 2006
Speakers and Organizers

Invited speakers for the International Symposium on LifeChips 2006 (ISLC 2006) are leaders in their fields from academia and industry, from North America and Asia. Each will share information on LifeChips research from their own unique perspective. Click on a name or picture to get an abstract and biography for any speaker.

	Nick Alexopolous Dean, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC irvine Welcome to Engineering at UCI Session theme: California: Prosperity through Technology
	Nancy Allbritton Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology and Biophysics, Biological Sciences The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine Session host: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Mehmet Toner Professor, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Harvard Medical School Director of the Microsystems Bioengineering Facility, Massachusetts General Hospital Cells, Microchips, and Clinical and Biological Information Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Shuming Nie Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair, Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering; Hematology/Oncology Director of Emory-Georgia Tech Nanotechnology Center Biomedical Nanotechnology for Personalized and Predictive Oncology Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Michael J. Natan President, Oxonica, Inc. (formerly Nanoplex Technologies) SENSER Nanotags: New Optical Detection Tags for Life Science and Diagnostics Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Saburo Tanaka Professor, Department of Ecological Engineering Center for Future Technology, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan SQUID chips for cancer Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Tae Kook Kim Professor of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Director of Molecular Medicine Imaging Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Live Approach in Life Science & Drug Discovery: A Magnetic Nanoprobe Technology for Imaging Molecular Interactions Inside Living Human Cells Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Andrew Berlin General Manager, Biomedical and Life Sciences The Fred Hutchinson Research Cancer, Intel Applying Semiconductor Technologies and Metrology Tools to Biomedical Research: Manipulation and Detection of Single Molecules Session theme: Nano/Micro Technology for Cancer
	Mark Bachman Associate Director, Integrated Nanosystems Reserach Facility Assoicate Professor Adjunct, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering Session host: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Robert J. Greenberg President and CEO, Second Sight® Medical Products, Inc. Second Sight Retinal Prosthesis Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Bill Van Antwerp Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer Medtronic MiniMed Inc. Drug delivery pumps today – how far have we come? Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Francis "Sandy" Spelman Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering Senior Researcher, Advanced Cochlear Systems Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Challenges for MEMS Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	SangHoon Lee Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Korea University, Korea Toward Implantable Micro Drug Delivery System Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Paul Bach-y-Rita Professor, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI Sensory Substitution and Brain-Machine Interfaces Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Makoto Ishida Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Director of Intelligent Sensing System Research Center Toyohashi University of Technology Si microprobe array chips for in-vivo recording of neural activity Session theme: BioMEMS for Implantable Devices
	Gregory Downing, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Center for Advanced Technologies, NIH Keynote Presentation Session theme: LifeChips research
	G.-P. Li Director, UCI Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Welcome to the International Symposium on LifeChips Session theme: LifeChips at UC Irvine
	Robert Corn Professor, Department of Chemistry UC irvine Session host: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	David Barker Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA Capturing all Common Human Variation on a Single Microarray Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	Nancy Allbritton Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology and Biophysics, Biological Sciences The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine Selecting One from the Many: A Positive Selection Strategy for Adherent Cells Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	Kazuaki Sawada Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Toyohashi University of Technology Two dimensional dynamic pH image sensor based on a CCD technique Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	James C. Osborne, Jr. Vice President, Advanced Technology Center Beckman-Coulter Inc. Array technologies for genomic, proteomic, cellular screening and diagnostic testing applications Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	E. K. Lee Professor and Chair, Department of Bionanotechnology, Graduate School Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea Conjugation chemistries and biofunctionality of surface immobilized proteins Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	Joshua LaBaer Director, Institute of Proteomics Harvard Medical School Functional Proteomics for Biomarker and Target Discovery Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	Niroshan Ramachandran Research Associate, Harvard Institute of Proteomics Harvard Medical School Applications of a novel high density protein display technology in functional proteomics and biomarker discovery Session theme: Array Technologies for Genomic, Proteomic and Cellular Screening/Diagnostics
	Ho Jung Chang Professor of Electronics Engineering Dankook University, Korea Conference Organizer Session theme:
	Kwang Sun Kim Professor, Mechatronics Engineering Department Korea University of Technology and Education Conference Organizer Session theme: