Pramod Murali
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
BSAC Researcher
January 28, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall
Host: Bernhard Boser
Flow cytometer is an important tool that finds applications in medical diagnosis, water treatment, cell sorting, etc. Convectional optical flow cytometers using fluorescent labels to tag specific cells suffer from background noise impeding their use in point-of-care applications. In this talk, I will present a flow cytometer cartridge using magnetic labels that alleviates the above limitations. I will also present in-flow detection of magnetically-labeled mouse stem cells.
At the end of the talk, I will discuss our goal to take this point-of-care technology to help HIV-infected patients. In particular, we wish to count CD4+ T cells in whole blood. Feedback on this will be much appreciated.
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