From the dynamics of microfluidic droplets to the dynamics of immune cells: Charles Baroud

Описание: Microfluidics has proven to be a key technology to produce and manipulate droplets, over a wide range of volumes, and with many applications in life sciences. In this context the focus in the early days of microfluidics was to understand the fluid mechanics that underlies the different droplet operations. I will start by discussing how droplet confinement can be used to generate and guide drops, particularly when gradients of confinement are generated by the microchannel geometry. Then I will switch to showing how we use these droplet operations to create 3D cultures of mammalian cells and how the combination of microfluidics with quantitative image analysis allows us to address a wide range of biological problems.

Enjoy free access to papers in support of Baroud's talk, courtesy of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...