Happy New Year everyone!
I don't normally post seminars we're going to be offering but this one was pretty unique and I thought it might be of general interest to the community. We've been working closely with Dolomite, an ABRF and NERLSCD sponsor, and their Nadia system. The Nadia is a fairly unique single cell system that sits between 10X's push button approach and a build-your-own-from-scratch drop-seq or inDrops box. It takes all the hardware questions away and leaves you a lot of freedom in the molecular biology arena. However, the activation energy for developing a new protocol is still very high because there are a lot of principles about developing for microfludics aren't widely known. As such, we've brought in folks from Dolomite to give a series of talks about these principles and the theory behind them to enable scientists to develop novel single cell methods. The series may be of interest to you in thinking about single cell protocols (maybe mass spec, maybe transcriptomics, maybe bacterial) or to your users who might see this as a possible direction for their work!
Happy New Year!
We'll be restarting our Technology Seminar this IAP with what we should be an interesting series about microfluidics. The series will focus on how to actually design and optimize protocols using microfluidic chips that can be used for single cell 'omics as well as a broad spectrum of other assays. Dolomite Bio has been developing microfluidics assays using their Nadia system for many years and our speakers, Richard Gray (Business Development Director) and Thomas Osborne (Technical Applications Specialist) have a lot of experience in adapting existing methodologies to microfluidics. While the Nadia will be a focus, the principles at play are useful for all similar devices including Drop-Seq or inDrop, etc. Talks will be in person and on zoom. Ultimately, we hope the series will provide you with the understanding of both the theory and practical knowledge to develop and modify your own protocols to best address your biological questions!
THU JAN5: 11a-12n in 68-181
Microfluidics Technology and its Capability
TUE JAN10: 12n-1p in 68-180
Microfluidics - details of applications for (single cell) biology
FRI JAN13: 10a-11:30a in 76-156
Hands on Demo of Nadia System for Biology
The Technology Seminar Series was created to highlight technologies available at MIT though our shared facilities. Each month the Seminar Series will showcase a different technology in the facility and bring you up to date on the latest advances and future directions of the technology. We have asked the companies we have invited to bring their scientists to speak (not the sales team) so you have a chance to interact with them directly.
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Stuart Levine
MIT BioMicro Center Director
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA
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