TechTalk: From technology scouting to real world single-cell functional analysis
Friday, May 22 at 15:00 BST | 16:00 CEST | 10:00 EDT | 07:00 PDT
Single-cell functional analysis is evolving rapidly, but identifying which technologies genuinely advance the science remains a challenge.
In this SelectScience® TechTalk, Toon Swings, Technology Expert at VIB Tech Watch, shares how his team scouts, evaluates, and stress-tests emerging single-cell platforms, and what criteria separate incremental from transformative advances.
Lightcast then presents Envisia, their oEWOD-based single-cell functional analysis platform, showing how programmable droplet control and machine learning address one of the field's most persistent bottlenecks: Poisson-limited encapsulation. Unlike platforms bound by fixed chip architectures, Envisia supports flexible, researcher-defined workflows across antibody discovery, cell line development, and cell and gene therapy applications.
Two perspectives. One question: what does genuinely useful single-cell functional analysis look like in practice?
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TechTalk details
- Cost: Free to attend
- Location: Online
- Duration: 20 minutes
Registration is required to secure your place. If you register but can’t attend live, you will receive a link to the on‑demand recording once it becomes available.
Speakers
Who should attend?
- Scientists and researchers working in antibody discovery, including hybridoma and B-cell library screening
- Cell line development teams evaluating single-cell tools for high-producer identification
- Cell and gene therapy researchers characterising effector function or requiring live-cell recovery
- Individuals using or considering droplet microfluidics, single-cell encapsulation, or FACS-based functional screens
- Academic researchers developing functional single-cell assays for immunology, oncology, or cell biology applications
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What will this webinar cover?
- How oEWOD technology controls droplet generation, single-cell loading, and export within a closed, contamination-free cartridge workflow
- Why Poisson distribution limits conventional droplet encapsulation, and how real-time optical detection and active droplet filtering overcome it
- How machine learning is applied within the Envisia platform to classify and select cells based on functional output, not proxy measurements
- How these capabilities translate into practice across antibody discovery, cell line development, and cell and gene therapy workflows, from secretion profiling to live-cell recovery for downstream analysis