Jaione was awarded with the 2018 Travel Award for a Postdoctoral Scientist, sponsored by Biosensors, to attend the “22nd International  Conference on Miniaturized Systems in Chemistry and the Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2018)” at Taiwan in November 2018.

The work that she will be presenting investigates a new design concept to solve the limitations of generating packed particle supports inside microfluidic devices, rendering reproducible volumes of the packed structures confined to a precise area. The architecture features an easy-to-use design for generation of silica bead supports, similar to the columns typically used in chromatography, where a variety of materials such as biosensors can be easily retained, showing minimal influence in flow conditions.