Good morning everyone I
think we get started now.

I'd like to welcome you to the fold
twenty seventeen no friends forum.

Where the topic as you can see
microfluidics and cell biology My name is

all over brand I am
a professor in electrical and

computer engineering educator tech and
I'm the director for

electronic on a technology in Georgia Tech
and I want to take this opportunity to

kind of welcome you and also tell you
a little bit about this in situ what

we're doing in particular with what we
have to offer in terms of core facilities.

So why do I just now to sixteenths off.

Of these nano finds forums goes back
all the way to two thousand and

eight we do it one to two times per year

it's always organized by Paul Joseph
who is down here in the first row.

Time that we do it at Emory University so
usually we have it at Georgia Tech but

with that topic we thought it makes a lot
of signs if we do have it at Emory.

So we have four excellent speakers
that I'm very very much looking

forward to Paul will then
afterwards basically introduce T.

introduce to individual speaker so
I won't say too much about them but

I'm very very glad that they are here
thank you very much for work thank you

very much for coming and I really want to
take the time to talk a little bit about

this in situ to our electronics and
on our technology which is one off

actually eleven into disciplinary
research in situ It's a Georgia Tech and

the idea of we call them I.R.I.
oversees our rises they caught across

the disciplines to cut across to schools
in a particular area of research right and

you see the research areas that
are covered on the on the slide again.

Pretty Brault but ours here focusing
on electronics and on technology and

the others you see here
D N T I B B at the Institute for

Bioengineering bio A sciences which
focuses on one field of research and

then tries to bring together people from
different disciplines so we support and

connect the entire campus and
beyond in a particular area of research we

try to foster collaboration and
in disciplinary team forming.

That is collaboration not only inside but
also externally right so.

One of the goals of this forum here is
to encourage collaboration between for

example the Ford Georgia Tech faculty did
give to presentations and Emory groups or

C.D.C. right and then also to take
the results and tried to move

them out of the lab into the fab or
into the real world use more quickly.

When we look at our faculty to
disassociated with a with the I R I it's

about two hundred faculty at Georgia Tech
with very very broad areas of expertise.

And I felt the ones that might
be interesting particularly for

this forum here in the area of anonyma
terrorism structures we have a lot of

faculty we have a lot of faculty in
the area of my core electro mechanical

systems sensor and then of course
a good number of faculty clued into

forward talking today in this
area of bio I call it bio X.

bio and and the faculty expertise that
ranges all the way from materials to

processes to devise to systems and
applications and

another way that we support these faculty
is using core facilities core facilities

in the area of micro nano fabrication and
correct arise ation So

we run two core facilities Micron
on a fabrication facility and

a materials characterization facility
where this material characterization

facility is actually to go to with
another of these I R I's two.

Situated materials and

at Georgia Tech we have about twenty five
thousand square feet of clean room space

occupied that is occupied by this
microphone a fabrication facility and

in including the characterization side
we offer about two hundred tool it's.

Core Facility shared use
core facilities so you.

Whether you are from Georgia Tech whether
you are from Emory University whether you

are from C.D.C. whether you are from
a company from an outside company you can

come and can use these
facilities I don't hands on or

you can use kind of a service that
we offer recorded remote work so

you can tell our staff what they
are what you want to get done and

our staff is doing that for
you on a pay by use basically base.

We have about seven hundred or so users on
an annual on an annual basis among these

two facilities typically off eighty
percent or so are Georgia Tech internal

twenty percent outside and at any given
times we have about seventy users or

so from from from companies
using either on side or

again really in a remote fashion we are
part of a national network that is called

the national technology coordinated
infrastructure which has sixteen sites

across the nation that do exactly
the same as we do open up their micro on

a fabrication my Canano characterize
ation facilities to the outside world.

And actually we have a website there and
see I don't know where you find a lot of

more information about that network and
Georgia Tech is actually the coordinating

office of the whole network so
I thought I have a slide and

how can we help you more to buy
a community or the medical community.

In terms of in terms of doing their
research right so if you're interested in.

Spaced microfluidic devices you can come
to us you can make them in our facility.

We were again you can have our staff
make these devices we have a lot of

expertise in fabricating and
developing sensors for

biomedical applications we can deposit on
various substrates then fill materials

such as metals dielectric semiconductors
we can functionalize surface with so

it with biomolecules we can perform
high resolution microscopy and

surface analysis for you and we even
afterwards to study binding kinetics and

surface properties right and so
do these two companies that are using

our facilities that you might be familiar
with here in the Atlanta area a couple of

things that I want to really highlight
before before I close we have

a soft lithography Bay really dedicated
to make kind of microfluidic devices

like the ones that you will see here
today in the talks and for talks a lot.

We have a couple of two words for
mask free I call it bio fabrication So

there is a inkjet tools that can
dispense water based solutions or

also sold them based solutions
onto various substrates bio force

not only neighbor is a tool where you Wick
a liquid along a cantilever being and

then the can to live or
beam touches a touch as a substrate and

you can transfer very very small
amounts of liquid very controlled

to substrates and this is probably
one of the newest tools that I'm

really very very excited with this
was funded through an N.S.F. M.R.I.

major research instrumentation
award it's a three D.

printer essentially right so
additive manufacturing but it's a three D.

printer with a reserve Lucian
of two hundred nano meters.

Micro meter was a Lucian So people have
have done it too to print basically into.

Into polymer scaffolds for
cell culturing and so on right so

is a lot of application of this
tool into bio into bio space.

Again this is installed since about six
months of so in our facility access

to all these tools is about twenty
dollars an hour twenty dollars an hour.

If you want to learn more as a booth
outside and Paul will probably mend

a booth and he can answer any questions
that you might have there is also imaging

right going all the way from confocal
my cross copy to very a pressure

electron microscopy to a transmission
I knocked on my cross copy and

I think I'm I'm already running a little
bit behind we have companies using it very

successful companies using it cardio memes
really started prototyping their first

products in this facility right
long before it was sold initially

to St Jude and now saying Jew test
become part of part of Abbott.

Biomedical is another startup company that
is using the facility particularly laser

micro machining capabilities quite
extensively and really before I close here

I want to have I have two more slides one
is about an initiative that actually will.

He was here in the front row as well and
I think he's our second or

third speaker second speaker today.

Spare headed which is a medical micro nano

Device Initiative between medical
faculty at Emory University and

engineering faculty at engineering
faculty at Georgia Tech so

if you're interested in participating in
this group really e-mail Wilbur Wright and

he can provide you more information
in terms of our next meetings and so

on you know a lot of slide that
I do want to show is about.

Workshops that we organize and
particularly I want to highlight this

workshop in the area a short course
not workshop short course in the area

of soft lithography and microfluidics
which is the next time scheduled for

April twenty eighth teen where basically

you learn how to do microfluidic
devices in a very very hands on way so

you go into a deficit right over two
days and you build your own devices and

I highly encourage to down here
are the rates that we did we charge and

if you want to know more about it you can
go to I end up GOT TO GO TO DO you slash

professional development write or contact
Paul Joseph directly and with this I

want to close his introduction I'm already
a little bit five minutes behind or so.

And so I want to welcome you again and

enjoyed an offense for
him thank you very much.