Nanobioengineering
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[edit] Welcome to the Micro and Nanobioengineering Group wikipage!
McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre
Biomedical Engineering Department
Faculty of Medicine
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
We have an opening for a
***Postdoctral Fellow on structurally encoded and yarn-based capillary microfluidic systems***
Keywords: Immunoassays | chemistry | signal amplification | global health | interdisciplinary
[edit] Lab News
- 2009-11-15 Maryam Mirzaei was awarded the prestigious "Vision 2010 Post-doctoral Fellowship" for outstanding young scientist, and will be moving to work at the University of Ottawa. We wish her best of luck for her Post-doc.
- 2009-11-03 Gina Zhou started in our group as a PhD student.
- 2009-11-03 Patrick Poirier started in our group as a post-master student and will do some exploratory work on neuroengineering and neuronal patterning.
- 2009-10-29 George Ciobanu, Chris Wong, and Mohammad Qasaimeh 's nifty idea on Plug-and-play microfluidic reservoirs is now published as a "chips and Tips" on the Lab on a chip webpage.
- 2009-10-28 Two submissions by Roozbeh Safavieh (Oral) and Maryam Mirzaei will be presented at MicroTAS 2009 in Jeju (Korea) on 3. Nov.
- 2009-08-28 David Juncker will present our latest advances on the microfluidic proteomics platform at the HUPO 2009 World Congress in Toronto on September 29th.
- 2009-08-27 Maryam Mirzaei successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
- 2009-06-10 Qing Zhang has been selected for an oral presentation for the ICMAT (international conference on materials for advanced technologies) in Singapore this end of June.
- 2009-96-06 Watch a cool video on JOVE featuring Cecile Perrault and Mohammad Qasaimeh demonstrating the microfluidic probe and how to use it.
- 2009-06-01 Wen Luo and Benjamin Corgier will give a talk at Biosensor in Université de Montréal the 15th and the 16th of June.
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[edit] Our motivation and research
Micro and Nanotechnologies supported the integration, miniaturization, and large scale parallelization of microelectronics along with an exponential growth that has already lasted over 40 years and has come to be known as Moore’s law. This exponential growth has fueled the “digital revolution”. The power of miniaturization and parallelization, enabled by microtechnologies, has started to bear on the life sciences, and already revolutionized them, by means of DNA microarrays and high throughput DNA sequencers running millions of biochemical reactions in parallel, as opposed to a single reaction at a time just a few years ago.
We are designing and developing micro and nanobioengineering technologies – with a strong focus on microfluidic systems – and are using these technologies for miniaturizing and parallelizing the protein analysis (proteomics) and cell biology. We aspire to emulate the parallelization of DNA microarrays and sequencers, and enable systematic, quantitative, and comprehensive approach for protein analysis and ultimately for cell biological experimentation. Systematic and quantitative biological experimentation will in turn help achieve full modeling of cells such as neurons and of diseases such as cancer as complex (biological) systems. These new approaches will transform biology into a predictive science and will help increase exponentially our understanding of the human brain and of cancerous diseases. Please see Projects for more information.
Inquiries and applications for graduate studies or Postdoctoral fellowships are welcome any time. Please see Openings for additional details.
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