1st Latin American, Student Organized bioMEMS Symposium Brings Together Pioneers in the Field - Bionics, Biochips, Nanotechnology and MEMS
An event with no precedents, the Simposium BioMEMS brings together
pioneers and leaders in the field. Bionics, Biochips, Drug Delivery,
Biosensors, Energy Scavengers, RF MEMS, Nanotechnology, BioMEMS for in
vivo and in vitro apps and MEMS Business are the main topics to discuss.
Workshops include CoventorWare, Finite Element Analysis and VHDL-AMS.
Tours and Social Events also included. - MEMS Leaders and Pioneers, Dr.
Janusz Bryzek, Dr. Marc Madou, Dr. Roger Grace and Dr. Richard Normann act
as plenary speakers. Registration Fee is 100 USD with a 50% discount for
students. Conference bein sponsored by the Science and Technology Council
of the State of Nuevo Leon, TEcnologico de Monterrey, MANCEF, Freescale,
National Instruments and Coventor Inc.Monterrey, Mexico
With the mission of boosting the MEMS concept,
specially the bioMEMS applications, among the industrial, government and
academic communities, Latin America’s first international bioMEMS
conference organized by students, 20th Simposium Internacional de
Electronica y Comunicaciones– bioMEMS, will be held in Tecnologico de
Monterrey at Monterrey, Mexico, on March 3-5, 2005. The event expects 600
participants among students, doctors, researchers, industry people and
government authorities. Symposium is organized yearly and for the second
time focuses entirely on MEMS technology.
Conference is being organized by a group of students from different majors
at Tecnologico de Monterrey, including electronics, electrical,
mechanical, biotechnology, industrial and biomedical engineering. The team
is being led by Rodrigo Martinez, Diana Davila, Juan Pablo Esquivel, Ruben
Iza and Alfonso Sepulveda.
Conference is being mainly financed by the Science and Technology Council
of the State of Nuevo Leon (COCYTENL). It also has the support of the MEMS
Group at Tecnologico de Monterrey, MANCEF, Coventor Inc, Freescale and
National Instruments.
Main program includes 7 plenary talks, seminars and workshops, expoMEMS,
poster session and discussion tables as well as tours and social events.
Pioneers and top researchers in Micro and Nano Technologies have confirmed
their assistance as plenary speakers: Dr. Janusz Bryzek, MEMS Leader and
Pioneer, founder of six MEMS Companies such as NovaSensor and LV Sensors;
Dr. JC Chiao, at the University of Texas at Arlington’s NanoFab Center and
considered one of the top researchers in RF MEMS, Dr. Sylvia Daunert, Gill
Eminent Professor of Analytical and Biological Chemistry at the University
of Kentucky, Head of the Daunert Research Group who focuses on recombinant
DNA technology to develop new bioanalytical techniques; Dr. Roger Grace,
MEMS Leader and Pioneer, President and Founder of Roger Grace Associates,
a marketing consulting firm specializing in high technology with clients
such as Sandia National Laboratories, Omron and the National Science
Foundation.
Dr. Marc Madou, MEMS Leader and Pioneer, Chancellor’s Professor of the
Biomedical Engineering, Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility and
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Departments at the University of
California at Irvine, his active research includes polymer actuators for
drug delivery, C-MEMS and CD based fluidics; Dr. Roop Mahajan, Director of
the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Packaging of Microwave, Optical
and Digital Electronics and the MicroElectronic Devices in Cardiovascular
Applications Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Dr. Richard
Normann, Bionics devices and applications Pioneer and Leader, Founder of
Bionics Technologies Inc. and Professor of the Biomedical, Ophthalmology
and Physiology Departments at the University of Utah.
Dr. Farzad Pourahmadi, Pioneer and leader in the development of fully
autonomous detection systems for real biothreat agents with integrated
sample prep and PCR stages, Founder of MicroFluidics Systems Inc. and the
Microfluidics Technology Group at Cepheid Inc; Dr. Robert Vajtai, Research
Fellow at the Renssealer Nanotechnology Center, Former Fellow at the Max
Planck Institute, Swedish Institute, NATO-NSF and others with his area of
expertise being carbon nanotubes.
Bionics, Biochips, Drug Delivery, Biosensors, RF MEMS, Nanotechnology,
Energy Scavengers, BioMEMS in vivo and in vitro applications and Micro and
Nano Technologies Commercialization are the main topics of the event.
Workshops include CoventorWare, Finite Element Analysis, VHDL-AMS,
Accelerometers and MEMS Testing.
The conference follows the work being done at various Mexican universities
and government entities to consolidate MEMS as one of the strategic
technologies to support and develop in order to achieve technical and
economic success.
Registration fee is 100 USD. A special student price of 50 USD is being
offered. Fee includes 7 plenary talks, one seminar or workshop, VIP
entrance to ExpoMEMS, tour, social events and several other benefits.
For further information please contact the organizing committee at e-mail
protected from spam bots or visit the Conference webpage
www.biomems.com.mx
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