| August, 2010 | Prof. Attinger gives a keynote lecture at the Eighth International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels in Montreal. The conference is being co-hosted with the ASME Fluids Engineering Division. |
| September, 2009 | Attinger's lab starts a 5-year NIH-funded collaboration with David Brenners' group (team leader) at Columbia Medical School. Microfluidic methods will be developed to handle single biological cells in experiments involving radiation microbeams. |
| September 7, 2009 | Ph.D. students Brian Jones and Junfeng Xiao joined LMTP in Fall 2009. Junfeng was awarded 4-year full scholarship from the China Scholarship Council towards his graduate studies at Columbia. |
| February 18, 2009 | Jie Qi, artist and engineering undergraduate student was awarded $1,100 by SEAS Dean Navratil for her proposal to design microfluidics artwork. |
| February, 2009 |
Our lab member Jie Xu receives the prestigious Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad: Ph.D. candidate Jie Xu was awarded the 2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. This award recognizes top Chinese Ph.D. students across all fields of study, over the whole world. |
| February, 2009 |
Our drop on demand work featured by the Institute of Physics: One of our publications: Xu J. and Attinger D., Drop on demand in a microfluidic chip, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM), Vol 18, pp 065020, 2008, has been selected with 31 other articles among the 2008 Highlights of JMM by the Editorial Board and publishing team of JMM. “Papers in this special collection best represent the high quality and breadth of the contributions published in the journal in the year of 2008”. The highlights of 2008 are free to read until 31 December 2009. |
| February/March, 2007 | Profs. Daniel Attinger and Chee Wei Wong
received two grants in the area of optofluidics. This emerging
discipline is about integrating microscopic fluid handling systems and
optical sensors to perform fluid handling and measurements with
application in biology, analytical chemistry and medical research.
Operating frequencies, measurement accuracy and processing speeds are
unprecedented. The ultimate goal of their research is to build
microprocessors able to manipulate biological and chemical fluids, in a
similar manner as electronic microprocessors manipulate electric
signals. The first grant is $100,000 for one year and was received in February 2007, from the Columbia Center for High-Throughput Minimally-Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry. It is entitled "Integrated microfluidic visualization on a microchip for ultrahigh-throughput low-cost radiation biodosimetry". Sam Sia from Columbia biomedical engineering is co-PI. The second grant is $270,000 for 3 years and was received in March 2007 from the NSF hybrid systems program. It is entitled "Optofluidics for next generation of laboratory-on-a-chip". |
| November 7, 2006 | Jonathan Kao receives the best student paper award from the ASME fluid division, at the IMECE 2006 Chicago Congress. Congratulations to Jonathan: he did his research work during the summer while still being a high school student. Jonathan is now a freshman in Stanford. The work was also featured in the May 2006 edition of the New Scientist. |
| January 1, 2006 | Dr. Berengere Podvin-Delarue joins the lab, as a Visiting Associate Research Scientist. Her work on bubble dynamics is supported by the US National Science Foundation and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). |
| August 27, 2005 | The laboratory moves from Stony Brook University to Columbia University. |
| February 1, 2005 | The US National Science Foundation awards Daniel Attinger the CAREER award and $400,000 for a 5-year project "Investigation of bubble dynamics in microscale geometries, with applications in bioengineering and microfluidics" |
| August 10, 2004 | Dr. Attinger gives a Keynote Lecture at the International Symposium on Micro/Nanoscale Energy Conversion and Transport in Seoul, "Using Drops and Bubbles to Carry and Transform Energy at the Microscale, with Presentation of a Novel Rotary Microengine" |
| February 10, 2004 | The US National Science Foundation awards Daniel Attinger and Jon Longtin (co-PI) $259,795 for a 3-year project "Coupling the High Resolution of Laser Measurements and Finite-Element Simulations to Understand Transport Phenomena during Microdroplet Deposition" |
