Lab Team Enters RICE 360 Competition – VIDEO!
Watch the team’s youtube video here! Senior Project Team
Author: Catherine M Klapperich
Wong, Lo, Stueber and LaCroix Receive NIH DEBUT Honorable Mention
Congrats to the BU team mentored by Dr. Mario Cabodi on their Honorable Mention! An Integrated Microfluidic System for Sample Concentration and Extraction: Boston University, Rebecca LaCroix, Michelle Wong, Justine Lo, and Gabriella Stueber Congratulations to the winning teams of the 2013 Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge! Read more at http://go.usa.gov/j79d
SNAP Device Highlighted in Chemistry World
A nice article on the work of Byrnes et al. in Chemistry World!
SNAP Device Published in Analytical Devices
Congrats to Jake, Sam, Andy, Frank and Mark! A portable, pressure driven, room temperature nucleic acid extraction and storage system for point of care molecular diagnostics Samantha Byrnes,b Andy Fan,b Jacob Trueb,a Francis Jareczek,b Mark Mazzochette,b Andre Sharon,ac Alexis F. Sauer-Budgebc and Catherine M. Klapperich*ab Show Affiliations Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40162F
Michelle Wong and Rebecca Lacroix win Societal Impact Award
Congratulations to Michelle and Rebecca for winning the Second Place College of Engineering Societal Impact Award. Their Senior Project was titled, “Design and Characterization of an Integrated Microfluidic System for Sample Concentration and Extraction.”
Huang et al. Publish Microfluidic HDA Paper in PLoS ONE
Congrats to Shichu and team! See the news article here. Huang S, Do J, Mahalanabis M, Fan A, Zhao L, et al. (2013) Low Cost Extraction and Isothermal Amplification of DNA for Infectious Diarrhea Diagnosis. PLoS ONE 8(3): e60059. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060059
Zhang et al. Virus Concentration Device Published in Diagnostics
The paper is open access and can be downloaded at http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/3/1/155. Jane Yuqian Zhang, Madhumita Mahalanabis, Lena Liu, Jessie Chang, Nira R. Pollock and Catherine M. Klapperich Article: A Disposable Microfluidic Virus Concentration Device Based on Evaporation and Interfacial Tension Diagnostics 2013, 3(1), 155-169; doi:10.3390/diagnostics3010155 Received: 18 December 2012; in revised form: 12 February 2013 / […]
Nga Ho is a CIMIT Primary Healthcare Prize Finalist
Congratulations to Lab member Nga Ho, who is a finalist for the 2013 CIMIT Primary Healthcare Prize. Details about Ms. Ho and the award here.
Institute of Primate Research, Nairobi, POC Conference Video
Check out members of the Klapperich Lab and others from around the world talk about the next generation of point of care diagnostics for global health! http://youtu.be/2rJlZNeZfD8
Microfluidics 2.0 Recorded Talks Online
The Adobe Connect links for each of the four sessions are available at www-staging.bu.edu/klapperich/mf20 Thank you to all who attended, both live and over the web!