PROGRAM

Science meets Business cafe Leiden: "Mini-micro-nano: cutting-edge instruments"

Date:

11 September 2014

Time:

17:00 - 18:30 hrs

Location:

BioPartner 1, Leiden

Upcoming cafe: Thursday 11 Sept. Mini-micro-nano: cutting-edge instruments We kick off the new SmB cafe season with a new format, existing of three recurring segments. Read more about it here. This month, we've invited these exciting speakers:

Call to action - Idris Solutions Peter Wiegman, Aerospace Engineering student, recently co-founded Idris Solutions. Their design for a micro-3D-printer aims to make complex 3D-structures at the size of a human hair.  BioPartner update - ZF-screens Dr. Hans Jansen is Laboratory Manager at ZF-screens and responsible for testing the minION. This USB enabled sensing system makes it possible to sequence anything right on your own desk. Making pigs fly - LUMC Alex Vernooij is projectleader of instrument affairs at the LUMC and for the Medical Delta.  He will speak about new technologies in medical instrumentation and its contemporary challenges.

The program 17:00 – Walk-in 17:30 – Opening 17:35 – Call to action: Peter Wiegman, Idris Solutions 17:45 – New in BioPartner: Dr. Hans Jansen, ZF-Screens 18:00 – Making pigs fly: Alex Vernooij, LUMC 18:15 – Discussion 18:30 – Drinks (until 19:30)

Registration and location If you would like to attend, please RSVP via our website. For directions to BioPartner 1, see our contact page.