바이오시스템학과 석사과정 김민석 학생 (지도교수 박제균)이
내년 1월 중순에 미국 Palm Springs에서 개최되는 LabAutomation 2006
(http://labautomation.org/LA/LA06/)학회에 제출한 논문 (Microfluidic 3-dimensional cell culture system by self-assembling peptide hydrogel) 이 여행경비 일체를 지원받는 Student Travel Award를 받게 됨과 동시에 400편의 논문중 Top 10 Candidate for the ALA Innovation Award 논문으로 선정되었습니다.

아래는 ALA (Association for Laboratory Automation)에서 전해온 내용입니다.

 

Innovation Award Finalists for 2006

http://labautomation.org/LA/LA06/innovationFinalists.php

 

The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) a multi-disciplinary, non-profit scientific association spanning diverse industries and technology sectors, announces the finalists for its $10,000 Innovation Award.

This year's award recognizes LabAutomation2006 participants who present work that is exceedingly innovative, and contributes to the exploration of automation technologies in the laboratory. Podium presentations that exhibit independence of thought, clarity of vision, extraordinary technical originality, and unique integration and automation strategies qualify for the award.

The Innovation Award Judges Panel narrowed the candidates from hundreds of presentation abstracts to a list of 10 finalists, including:

Jonathon Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; Metabolizing Enzyme Toxicology Assay Chip (MetaChip) for High-Throughput Microscale Toxicity Analyses 

David Ecker, Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Carlsbad, California; Rapid, High-Throughput Bacterial Genotyping to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections

Kurt Evans, Ambion Inc., Austin, Texas; High-Throughput Sample Preparation from Whole Blood for Gene Expression Analysis

Minseok Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea; Microfluidic 3-Dimensional Cell Culture System by Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogel  Gang Liu, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; All-Optical-Logic Microfluidic Circuit for Biochemical and Cellular Analysis Powered by Photoactive Nanoparticles

 

Robin Liu, CombiMatrix Corp., Mukilteo, Washington; Fully Integrated Microfluidic Devices for Automated DNA Microarray Analysis

Miguel Maccio, Wyeth, Pearl River, New York; Modular Automation Platforms: A Case Study of a Flexible NMR Sample Preparation Robot

Goetz Muenchow, Institut f? Mikrotechnik Mainz, Mainz, Germany; Electrophoretic Partitioning of Proteins in Two-Phase Microflows

Achim Wixforth, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany; Acoustically Driven Programmable Microfluidics for Biological and Chemical Applications

Zhiyu Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; A Polymer-Based, Instrumented Microbioreactor for High-Throughput Microbial Cell Cultures

Innovation Award chairman Gary Kramer Ph.D. was extremely pleased with the variety and quality of submissions for this year's award. "LabAutomation has always served as a platform for presenting emerging and merging laboratory automation technologies. For the second year, laboratory innovation and technology advancement will be recognized, along with the outstanding scientist behind it."

A judging panel of 10 experts in laboratory technologies conducted a preliminary screening of abstracts leading to the finalist list. Once on-site, they will conduct a rigorous evaluation and select the overall winner. That winner will be announced Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. during the closing plenary session featuring E.L. Kersten, Ph.D., co-founder of Despair, Inc. Dr. Kersten's presentation is titled, "Demotivation: The State of the Art."

LabAutomation2006 Academic Grant Program

Congratulations to the following Academic Grant Winners:

• Nitin Agrawal, Texas A&M University


• Sibani Biswal, University of California, Berkeley


• Anne Carpenter, Whitehead Institute – Massachusetts Institute of Technology


• Wendell Coltro, University of Sao Paulo


• J. Colin Cox, Duke University


• Teresa Damico, Wayne State University


• Joshua Ede, Harvard University


• Kurt Evans, Ambion


• Maojun Gong, University of Cincinnati


• Weisong Gu, Ohio Supercomputer Center


• Yunseok Heo, University of Michigan


• Michael Hudock, University of Illinois


• Ronny Jopp, National Institute of Standards and Technology


• Joohoon Kim, University of Texas, Austin


• Minseok S. Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)


• Anil Kumar, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology


• Michelle Li, Saint Louis University


• Gang L. Liu, University of California, Berkeley


• Yiqi Luo, Stanford University


• Veronica Martins, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering


• Peyman Najmabadi, University of Toronto


• Irena Nikcevic, University of Cincinnati


• Shalini Prasad, Portland State University


• Qiaosheng Pu, Virginia Commonwealth University


• Alexander Roth, National Institute of Standards and Technology


• Faisal Shaikh, Texas A&M University


• Sang Jun Son, University of Maryland


• Eric Tan, Keck Graduate Institute


• Anthony Tsarbopoulos, GAIA Research Center