Special Session
Special Session on
Organ on Chip Micro-Devices -
microOrganChip
2025
20 - 22 February, 2025 - Porto, Portugal
Within the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2025
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CO-CHAIRS
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Hadar Ben-Yoav
Ben-Gurion University, Negev
Israel
https://www.benyoav.com
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Brief Bio
Dr. Ben-Yoav is the head of the Nanobioelectronics Laboratory and an Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research team focuses on interfacing biology with microelectronics. In particular, they study the integration of biological materials (such as DNA, proteins, and cells) with micro- and nano-electronic devices that will harness their unique functionalities for the development of the next generation of personalized health monitoring applications (such as electronic skin patches and implantable sensors that can continuously monitor our health).
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Gad Vatine
Ben-Gurion University, Negev
Israel
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Brief Bio
Dr. Vatine received his Ph.D. in 2011 from Tell Aviv University where, he studied the mechanisms underlying light-entrainment of the circadian clock using zebrafish as a model. He followed this with a short postdoc at Bar-Ilan University where he established a zebrafish model for the rare psychomotor disability disorder MCT8-deficiency. Next, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Clive Svendsen at the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai where he pioneered the concept of disease modeling at blood-brain barrier (BBB) using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In 2017, he became an assistant professor at The Physiology and Cell Biology Department and the Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The Vatine lab generates personalized iPSC-based models to study mechanisms underlying various rare neurological disorders, and to test potential treatments. He is also the director of the BGU-iPS-core facility.
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Janina Bahnemann
University of Augsburg
Germany
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Brief Bio
Janina Bahnemann is Full Professor of Life Sciences at the Institute of Physics at the University of Augsburg, Germany, since 2022.
She studied Life Science (Bachelor and Master studies) at the Leibniz University Hannover from 2004 to 2009.
In 2014, she completed her PhD studies at the Hamburg University of Technology in the Institute of Bioprocess and Biosystems Technology.
In 2015, Janina Bahnemann joined the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow, where she worked at the Institute for Environmental and Applied Sciences in the group of Prof. Michael Hoffmann.
In 2017, she was awarded the competitive Emmy Noether fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). From 2017 to 2022, she headed her independent Emmy Noether junior research group at the Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, and held a substitute professorship at the Faculty of Technology at Bielefeld University from 2021 to 2022.
Her research focuses on biotechnology, cell culture and microsystems technology as well as the development of lab-on-a-chip systems and biosensors for biotechnological and medical applications.
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SCOPE
Study of the human body and organs physiology traditionally involves monolayer culture cells and animal models. However, transferability of these models is very limited since not all species-specific mechanisms can be replicated; importantly, tested drugs and diets that show results in animal models do not have the same effect in humans. Organ-on-chip (OOC) devices emerge as a novel physiological model devoid of these drawbacks. The OOC goal is to mimic cell and tissue structures under their physiological conditions. OOC architecture benefits from the advantages of both in-vivo and in-vitro systems, allowing the study of physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. OOC devices have the potential to bring cell culture models into greater alignment with human physiology than animal models have ever achieved.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Organ-on-chip disease models
- Organ on Chip for Regenerative Medicine
- Personalized Organ-on-chip Models
- Drug Pharmacodynamics and Pharmacokinetics Organ on Chip
- Multi-organ on Chip
- Organoids on Chip
- iPSC-derived Organ on Chip
- Microfabrication Technologies for Organ on Chip
- Materials and Biomaterials for Organ on Chip
- Sensors and Monitoring in Organ on Chip
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission:
December 18, 2024
Authors Notification:
January 14, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration:
January 22, 2025
SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Available soon.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.
PUBLICATIONS
After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library