Abstract: Point of care tests of the future will enable general care practitioners as well as patients themselves to detect a wide range of diseases. These distributed sample-to-answer tests will require highly accurate diagnostics with near fool proof operation and interpretation.  They will also connect seamlessly to remote healthcare infrastructure. We are utilizing paper-based fluidic networks to develop portable, instrument-free, molecular diagnostics that will make infectious disease detection as easy as taking a pregnancy test. In this talk, I will present my research developing a minimally instrumented molecular diagnostic for respiratory and sexually transmitted infections with high sensitivity and rapid detection at the point of care.  Further examples illustrating applications of this platform to paper-based diagnostics, mobile molecular diagnostics, and rapid sepsis detection will also be described.

Bio: Jacqueline Callihan Linnes is an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University as of January 2015. Dr. Linnes earned her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and certificate in Global Health from the University of Washington. She was a Fogarty engineering fellow in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Little Devices laboratory at MIT. She then moved to Boston University’s Biomedical Engineering department where she received a NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship to work with Dr. Catherine Klapperich to develop molecular diagnostics for point of care pathogen detection.

***Coffee and juice will be provided at West Lafayette***

(via teleconference to SL165 at IUPUI)