The objective of this session is to bring together researchers from academia, research laboratories and industry, to exchange ideas to advance microfluidics detection, which includes detection, diagnostics and measurement in microfluidics platforms. The applications cover the detection of chemical and biological agents in clinical diagnostics, homeland security, food and environment monitoring, industrial process monitoring and developing new functionality for research in life science, etc. The term of microfluidics applies also to "microdevice", "microchip", "lab-on-a-chip", “micro-total analysis system”, "micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)” and “BioMEMS”. Papers that cover the relevant sample preparation and transport phenomena (including electrokinetics) in microanalytical detection, novel detection technology, development of detection sensors, new application of microfluidics detection, and the incorporation of genomic and proteomic biomarkers are encouraged to submit to this session.

Topical 3: 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES)