Programme
| 08:30 | Doors open | |
| 09:00 - 09:35 | Registration and coffee | |
| 09:35 - 09:50 | Introductions & housekeeping | |
| Session 1 | Analytical chemistry | Chair: Adrian Nightingale |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | Nicole Pamme | KEYNOTE: Environmental analysis on site – microfluidics for citizen scientists |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Xize Niu | Automated microfluidic multiparameter analyzer for real-time nitrification/denitrification control in bioreactor wastewater treatment |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Kirsty Shaw | Mammothfluidics: Amino acid dating of fossilised tooth enamel using a modular microfluidic system |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Alexandra Dobrea | Microfluidic-enabled sample and data processing automation for enhanced electrochemical biosensors |
| 11:00 - 12:05 | Coffee, posters and exhibitors | |
| Session 2 | Materials science | Chair: Al Edwards |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Fiona Meldrum | KEYNOTE: Microfluidics and crystallisation – The perfect combination |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Philip Howes | Microfluidic systems for high-throughput and data-rich colloidal nanomaterials chemistry |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Shusei Kawara | Capillary-scale multi-order bifurcating microchannel networks by surface tension-driven wire templating in hydrogels |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch, posters and exhibitors | |
| Session 3 | Cells and proteins | Chair: Lynn Paterson |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | Huabing Yin | KEYNOTE: Al-assisted Raman activated cell sorting for microbial discovery and engineering biology |
| 14:25 - 14:40 | Aleks Ponjavic | Single-molecule flow cytometry |
| 14:40 - 14:55 | Lewis Krzeczkowski | Microfluidic bandstop filter for viable cancer cell isolation from liquid biopsies |
| 14:55 - 15:10 | Jonathan West | Microfluidics for investigating protein dynamics |
| 15:10 - 16:00 | Coffee, posters and exhibitors | |
| Session 4 | Tissues and diagnostics | Chair: Delanyo Kpeglo |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | Steve Evans | KEYNOTE: Microfluidics against cancer: From single cell diagnostics to on-chip therapeutics |
| 16:25 - 16:40 | Lydia Baldwin | A microfluidic Glioblastoma on chip model for assessing effect of chemotherapy agents on tumour death |
| 16:40 - 16:55 | Mohammad Nabil Abo-Zeid Ibrahim | Disposable, equipment-free microfluidic paper-based immunosensor for hepatitis C virus detection |
| 16:55 - 17:10 | Michal Zatrak | Development of a lab-on-a-chip device for seal lungworm (Otostrongylus circumlitus) detection in non-laboratory settings |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Awards and closing remarks | |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Wine reception |
If delegates are arriving in Leeds the evening before the conference (Tuesday 17th June 2025), we will look to organising an informal meet-up. We will gather this information through a registration form following payment.