Arturo Ayon
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UTSA

Dr Ayon received his BS from Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico), and his MS and PhD from Cornell University. He was the director of the MEMS Business Development of SONY Semiconductor. He is now Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Arturo is also the Director of the UTSA MEMS Research Laboratory (link).

Rena Bizios
Department of Biomedical Engineering, UTSA

Dr. Bizios received her PhD form MIT in 1979. She joined UTSA as one of the Peter T. Flawn Professor in the Department BME. Rena is the Director of the Cellular and Tissue Engineeringn Laboratory and is interested in cell and protein interactions with biomaterials; cell responses to select biophysical stimuli; and biocompatibility of nanophased materials.

Emanuel Carrilho
Instituto de Química de São Carlos, USP

Emanuel is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemistry at São Carlos, USP. His group is dedicated to develop new bioanalytical methods for genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. The main focus of his research is instrumental approaches to bioanalysis and he is particularly interested in capillary electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and microfluidic devices.

Carla E. Giacomelli
Dept. Physical Chemistry, UN Cordoba

Dr. Giacomelli received her BS and PhD from the National University of Cordoba (Argentina). She completed a postdoctoral visit at the University of Wagenigen under the supervision of Dr. W. Norde. She is now a professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry, in Cordoba, Argentina.

Frank Gomez
Dep. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CSULA

Frank received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1991 and performed a postdoc at Harvard University (1991-1994). Dr. Gomez' group is interested in the development of bead-based assays, chromatography on chips, novel materials for microfluidics, new valve actuators, affinity capillary electrophoresis and SPR-CE on chips. Dr. Gomez is also the director of the PREM

Claudimir L. Do Lago
Departamento de Química Fundamental, USP

Claudimir's group has focused on the development of instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis – amperometric and contactless conductivity detection systems, high voltage sources, microfluidic devices, separated electrolysis system, and data acquisition systems.