Travel Award

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Biosensors, I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2018 Travel Award for a PhD Student, sponsored by Biosensors, is Mr. Alain Lombard, who is in the first year of his doctoral studies at the University of Grenoble in France. He will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend the “International Meeting on Optical Biosensors” in Ghent in November 2018, where he will present his work.

The goal of his PhD is to understand the signal processing in mechanotransduction in magneto-active substrates combined with FRET biosensors. He aims to use these devices as a new tool to study mechanotransduction in single cells by exerting a local and dynamic stimulation and reading the response of the signalling pathway.

Also, I am very pleased to announce that the winner of the 2018 Travel Award for a Postdoctoral Scientist, sponsored by Biosensors, is Dr. Jaione Etxebarria, who is an early-career scientist working in the microfluidics group at the UPV/EHU Research Group, located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. She will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend the “22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and the Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018)” in Taiwan in November 2018, where she will present the latest work on this project.

Her work investigates a new design concept to solve the limitations of generating packed particle supports inside microfluidic devices, rendering reproducible volumes of the packed structures confined to a precise area. The architecture features an easyto- use design for generation of silica bead supports, similar to the columns typically used in chromatography, where a variety of materials such as biosensors can be easily retained, showing minimal influence in flow conditions.

Dr. Etxebarria has already been the recipient of several grants and awards, has presented her work at international conferences, and published over 10 scientific papers.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Jeff D. Newman
Editor-in-Chief, Biosensors

 
Biosensors 2018 Travel Award
 
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

Shichao Ding
University of California San Diego

Award Committee

Prof. Giovanna Marrazza Chairman
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Benoît PIRO
Université de Paris
Dr. Francesco Dell'olio
Politecnico di Bari
Dr. Iva Chianella
Cranfield University
Dr. Eden Morales-Narváez
Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Prof. Larry Cheng
Penn State University

Winner

Dmitry Kireev
The University of Texas at Austin

Award Committee

Prof. Giovanna Marrazza Chairman
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Benoît PIRO
Université de Paris
Prof. Nae Yoon Lee
Gachon University
Prof. Heidi Ottevaere
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels Photonics (IR-TONA)
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Cristea
Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Prof. Tibor Hianik
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University

Winner

Amir Hatami
Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Mahmoud Amouzadeh Tabrizi
University Carlos III of Madrid | Leganés Campus

Award Committee

Prof. Giovanna Marrazza Chairman
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Cecilia Cristea
Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Prof. Dr. Antonio Lanatà
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Chun-yang Zhang
Dr. Eden Morales-Narváez
Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Prof. Chung-Chiun Liu
Case Western Reserve University

Winner

Mengdi Bao
Rochester Institute of Technology
Yichi Su
Stanford, School of Medicine, Neurobiology

Award Committee

Prof. Giovanna Marrazza Chairman
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Jing Wei
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Prof. Larry Cheng
Penn State University
Dr. Paolo Bollella
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Prof. Mengqiang Zhao
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Dr. Thomas Hughes
Montana Molecular

Winner

Fabio Di Nardo
University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Award Committee

Prof. Giovanna Marrazza Chairman
University of Florence
Prof. Dr. Luigi Campanella
Dr. Martina Piano
Prof. Chung-Chiun Liu
Case Western Reserve University
Prof. Robert Marks
Prof. Dr. Maria Carmen Blanco-Lopez
University of Oviedo
Dr. Michael Thompson
University of Toronto
Prof. Dr. Yanhua Luo
Shanghai University
Prof. Eithne Dempsey
Maynooth University

Winner

Ulri Lee
University of Washington

Winner

Alain Lombard
University of Grenoble

Winner

Ke Du
University of California at Berkeley

Winner

Peng Zheng
West Virginia University
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