Thank you for visiting the official website for the Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center. Our center is composed of academic, government and commercial institutions across the country dedicated to the development of the basic science and technology of micro/nanoscale fluidics and their advancement toward applications in a number of commercial and military arenas.

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Invitrogen joins MF3
Welcome to Invitrogen Corporation who joined MF3 at the Associate level in April 2008. We are very pleased that they are part of the center and we look forward to interacting with their delegates at upcoming MF3 events. Invitrogen provides essential life science technologies for disease research, drug discovery, and commercial bioproduction. Their products and services support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide. For more information please visit their website: www.invitrogen.com

Next DARPA S&T Review June 25 - 26, 2008
The DARPA MEMS/NEMS Science & Technology Fundamentals "All-Center" meeting will be held in Bloomington, Minnesota, June 25 - 26, 2008. Meeting details and agenda forthcoming.

Next MF3 IAB Meeting August 6 - 7, 2008
Mark your calendars! The next MF3 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) meeting will be held August 6 - 7, 2008 in Irvine, California, at the University of California, Irvine. Meeting details and agenda forthcoming.

BMES Annual Fall Meeting, October 2 - 4, 2008
The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) will be holding its Annual Fall Meeting in St. Louis, MO, this year. In addition to micro/nano fluidics, this meeting covers a broad range of biomedical engineering topics such as cellular/molecular engineering, tissue engineering, and biomedical imaging. Abstract submission deadline is May 1, 2008. For more information about the conference, please check here: bme.wustl.edu/BMES2008

MicroTAS 2008, October 12 - 16, 2008
The 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2008) will be held October 12 - 16, 2008, in San Diego, California. This is a high profile, worldwide conference held every year to showcase the latest, most innovative work in micro/nano fluidics. For more information about the conference, please check here: www.microtas2008.org

Attention MF3 Center members: MicroTAS 2008 abstracts submitted by MF3 faculty have been uploaded to the MF3 Library. Please login to the "Members Only" page to view these abstracts.

MF3 in the Media
The MF3 Center has been featured in the UC Irvine Henry Samueli School of Engineering publication Innovations. The article, entitled "UC Irvine Establishes Center to Study Small-Scale Fluidic Behavior," gives a nice overview of MF3 and center goals. Please check here: [PDF article].

MF3 has also been featured in a University of California, Irvine press release. To see the full text of this release check here: press release full text.