A micro flow cytometry system for study of marine phytoplankton from costal waters of Hong Kong

Author

Ling, Yunyang ; Liu, Hongbin ; Lee, Yi-Kuen

Author_Institution

Dept of Mech. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-23 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

587

Lastpage

590

Abstract

Although conventional flow cytometers (CFCs) have been widely used for study of marine biology, most CFCs are too bulky to be used for field study in ocean and have corrosion problem due to salty samples. A new computer-controlled micro flow cytometer (MFC) system has been successfully developed using MEMS technology. We demonstrate that this new MFC can analyze mixture of two species of marine phytoplankton: Chlorella autotrophica and Rhodomonas. The results from our MFC are consistent with those from digital fluorescence microscopy.

Keywords

cellular biophysics; microfluidics; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; Chlorella autotrophica; Hong Kong; MEMS technology; Rhodomonas; coastal water; computer-controlled microflow cytometer; corrosion problem; marine biology; marine phytoplankton; microflow cytometry system; salty samples; MEMS technology; conventional flow cytometers (CFCs); costal waters of Hong Kong; marine phytoplankton; micro flow cytometer(MFC) system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2010 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xiamen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6543-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2010.5592470

Filename

5592470