BioMEMS: From the Lab to the Market
	11/14/2006 5:15PM      |  Send this page to a friend.  University Club
	Program Description:
	"BioMEMS: From the Lab to the Market" with Prof. Joel Voldman of MIT, Prof. Noel MacDonald of UCSB, and CEO John Foster of Innovative Micro Technology.\n\nThe powerful technologies for fabricating chips with millions of transistors have evolved to enable the fabrication of micro-electromechanical systems. These so-called MEMS devices incorporate mechanical motion and have found applications in digital light projectors, accelerometers for crash detection in cars, and microfluidic “BioMEMS” for sorting individual cells. This program is focused on BioMEMS which have the potential to impact us all through advances in medical research and technology.\n\nJoel Voldman received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts , Amherst , in 1995. He received the M.S and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES Cambridge , in 1997 and 2001, developing bioMEMS for single-cell analysis. Following this, he was a postdoctoral associate in George Church’s lab at Harvard Medical School , where he studied developmental biology. In 2002 he returned to MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. In 2004 he was awarded the NBX Career Development Chair, and in 2006 promoted to Associate Professor in the department. His research focuses on developing microtechnology for cell biology.\n\nDr. John S. Foster, CEO of IMT, was the COO of Applied Magnetics Corporation, Plant General Manager of Applied Magnetics Malaysia, IBM R&D manager, IBM product manager, and on the Stanford University faculty. Dr. Foster holds 20 U.S. Patents, is the co-inventor of near-contact recording for storage disk drives, made the first real-space observation of individual molecules, and the first measurement of zero-point motion amplification in Superfluid Helium-4. He received his PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University.\n\nNoel C. MacDonald received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. He holds a joint professorial appointment with the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES where he also holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology. He has written or co-authored over 100 papers and several book chapters and holds 61 patents. He was an Acting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1967 to 1968, was a member of the Technical Staff at Rockwell International Science Center, and held management positions in Physical Electronics Industries, Inc., and Perkin-Elmer Company from 1968-1982. Before coming to UCSB, he held the Acheson/Laibe Professorship in Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and served as the Director of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility and the Chairman of the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell. From 1997 to 1999, he served as Director of the Microsystems Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In 2000 Prof. MacDonald was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to the development of the Scanning Auger Microprobe and micromachined micro-instruments. His current research interests include advanced materials processing as well as interdisciplinary research for micro/nano-electromechanical systems.\n\nKen Babcock is CEO of Affinity Biosensors, a Santa Barbara startup aiming to commercialize a new MEMS biosensor. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University, Ken moved to Santa Barbara for post-doctoral work at UCSB. He happily derailed his academic career by joining Digital Instruments to develop their magnetic force microscopy products, and took on various executive roles after Veeco’s purchase of D.I.\n\nAffinity Biosensors develops and markets products for medical diagnostics, food safety, and particle measurement. Affinity Bio’s core technology is the suspended microchannel resonator (SMR); INSERT INTO events2 (id, isopen, title, location, briefdescrip, ldescription, date, [current], attendees, map, [time], capacity, reminders, doorpay) VALUES a MEMS biosensor invented by Scott Manalis of MIT. SMR boasts the world’s most sensitive measurements of mass in fluid, ample to “weigh” a single bacterium. SMR “chips” are manufactured by local MEMS facility Innovative Micro Technology, and were developed under a food safety program administered by the UCSB-based Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies.
	When:
	Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:15 PM
	Where:
	University Club
	Cost:
	Student $15.00 Regular $30.00 At the Door $40.00 Parking $0.00