Short story and lessons from a microfluidic startup adventure — Rémi Dangla (Stilla Technologies, Villejuif, France)
I started the Stilla Technologies project during my PhD in 2012 to try to build an innovative digital PCR system out of promising benchtop microfluidic experiments. 5 years down the road, Stilla Technologies is now providing its Naica System to molecular biology labs around the world. In my presentation, I will outline key moments Stilla’s brief history, give some tips on how to build a company from scratch (in France) and point to some lessons learned along the way.
Bordeaux lab visits
The participants who chose labs visit will be split in three groups: one will visit the tissue engineering laboratory Biotis (guide: R. Devillard). The second one will visit the new technology platform ELORPrintTec (C. Ayela). The third one will visit a selection of the laboratory activities related to the microfluidics: ICMCB (supercritical fluids, S. Marre), CRPP (drops for high-speed sieving, J.-C. Baret), NSYSA (microscale characterization, A. Perro), LOF (metamaterials, J. Leng).
Two practical sessions will unfold simultaneously, jointly prepared by the academic researchers form the organizing committee and the companies Fluigent and Elveflow/BlackHoleLab. The first will focus on microfabrication and microscale transport (simple diffusion, shear-induced diffusion). The second session will present in-situ drop concentration measurement, thanks to the integration of optical fibers in a setup connected to a spectrometer, with applcations in chemical and biological engineering (protein crystallization). Both sessions will be illustrated by a numerical section, using Comsol, a simulation software based on finit element method.
Demonstrations by companies
Poster session
Other activities
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Welcome cocktail
Taste aperitif
Gastronomic dinner
Social event: outdoors activities
Applicants will have to choose between tree climbing, windsurfing and catamaran.
