MicroTAS2020

Dear colleagues, friends and researchers around the worldThe major conference in microfluidics, MicroTAS, the International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences), will not be held in person this year due to the COVID-19 pandemics and the resulting restrictions in terms of traveling, but it will be online! The Palm Springs meeting initially planned in Oct. 2020 is now shifted to Oct. 2021. MicroTAS 2020 continues a well-established series of international conferences that is the premier forum for reporting research results in micro- and nanofluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, analysis and synthesis, detection technologies for chemistry and life sciences, and organs-to-organisms on chip.With this virtual conference, we aim at continuing to engage and strengthen our community in spite of these difficult times. Despite the modified format, the meeting remains a true MicroTAS conference designed to follow the goals and capture the spirit of MicroTAS: (1) to maintain the quality of the scientific exchange at the meeting; (2) to provide a forum for new/unpublished work in the field of microsystems for chemistry and biology; (3) to promote scientific engagements/exchanges in a wide variety of subject areas across the field; (4) to promote exchanges among researchers of all career stages; (5) and to grow the community by engaging new scientific directions and new researchers.This online MicroTAS conference will feature plenary and keynote speakers, poster presentations selected from submitted abstracts with optional flash presentations for the posters, and several opportunities for poster awards! The online event will be preceded by workshops, and will include various social activities to maintain the level for networking opportunities!The registration fee will be low and we will most likely offer group registration at least for the invited talks.For more information about the conference, visit our website https://microtas2020.org