Title: Lab-on-glass system based on thin film optoelectronic devices and thick film microfluidics

Biography:

Domenico Caputo is Associate Professor with tenure at DIET at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. His main research fields concerned the development of amorphous silicon photodetectors for detection of radiation from the UV to the near infrared range and of innovative electronic devices based on amorphous silicon. The present research interest is focused on the development of thin film photodetector and Lab-on-Chip system for DNA amplification and mycotoxin detection. He is referee of several scientific journals, author of more than 100 papers on international journals and principal investigator of national and international projects.

Abstract

Lab-on-Chip technology is gaining great interest due to the many possibilities that it offers in the fields of life sciences, from parallel analysis in genomics to point-of-care devices in medical diagnostics. At the beginning, Lab-on-Chip devices essentially consisted of a microfluidic network that miniaturized the analytical procedures leading to faster reaction kinetics and lower sample and reagents consumption. Recent devices integrate on a single substrate several functional modules, that allow all the functions of a human-scale test laboratory including transferring samples, drawing off a precise volume of a chemical product, reagent mixing, detection and quantification of biomolecules.