Essentials of Single-Cell Analysis

Dr.Fan-Gang Tseng received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from UCLA,USA, in 1998. He is currently a DistinguishedProfessorin the ESS Departmentas well as at the NEMS Institute, and theDeputy Director of the Biomedical Technology Research Center at NTHU. He isalso an affiliated Research Fellow of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He was elected asan ASME fellow in 2014. His research interests are in the fields of BioNEMS,Biosensors, Micro-Fluidics, Tissue Chips, and Fuel Cells. He holds 60 patents, authored 8 book chapters, andpublished more than220 journal papers and 360 conference papers. Dr. Tseng currently serves on theeditorial boards of Applied Sciences, Journal of Circuits and Systems,International Journal of Molecule Science, Micromachines, and Open NanomedicineJournal. He received many awards, including NationalInnovation Award (twice), Outstanding Research Award (MOST and NSC, twice), First-Class ResearchAward (NSC), Mr. Wu, Da-Yo Memorial Award (NSC), NTHU Outstanding Research Award (2005-2015), and more than twelve bestpaper/poster awards from various competitions and conferences. Dr. Tuhin Subhra Santra receivedhis Ph.D. degree in Bio-Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (Bio-NEMS) from theInstitute of Nanoengineering and Microsystems (NEMS), National Tsing HuaUniversity (NTHU), Taiwan in 2013. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the California Nano System Institute (CNSI),University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His main research areas areBio-NEMS, MEMS, Single-Cell Analysis, Bio-micro/nanoFabrication, Biomedical Microdevices, Nanomedicine and etc. Dr. Santra servesas a Guest Editor for the Journal of Micromachines, Journal of Molecules,International Journal of Molecular Science, Sensors and Transducers Journal,American Journal of Nanoresearch and Application, among others. Dr. Santra hasreceived many awards such as the NTHU Outstanding Student Award in 2011 and2013, IEEE-NEMSBest Conference Paper Award in 2014, Best Poster Award at 15thNano/Microsystem Conference in 2012, Junior ResearchFellowship from theIIT-Kharagpur in 2008, OutstandingStudent Award from the Jadavpur University in2005 and 2006, Silver Medal from the VidyasagarUniversity in 2004. Dr. Santra has published more than 15 international journalpapers, six book chapters, 31 international conference papers in his researchfield. He also has one US and one Taiwan patentpending.

• SingleCell Behavioral Assays for Heterogeneity Studies.- Systems biology in single cells.- Electroporation for single cellanalysis.- Microinjection for single cellanalysis.- Optical tools for single cellmanipulation and analysis.- Optoelectrokinetic manipulationfor cell analysis.- Continuous micro/nano-fluidicdevices for single cell analysis.- Single Cell MechanicalProperties: Label-Free Biomarkers for Cell Status Evaluation.- Cytometry of single cells forbiology and biomedicine.- Single cell genomics andepigenomics.- Single cell Metabolomics.- Applications of cell based drugdelivery systems: use of single cell assay.- Applications of Single CellSequencing in Cancer.- Single Cell Characterization ofMicroalgal Lipid Contents with Confocal Raman Microscopy.- Single Differentiated Neurons fromPluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells: Motor Protein Modelling and NeurodegenerativeDisease.