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prof.dr.ir. L.I. Segerink (Loes)

Full Professor
EEMCS-EE-BIOS
Carré C2249
l.i.segerink@utwente.nl
+31534894541
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My research focuses on the development of microfluidic systems for (bio)-medical applications, thereby increasing the knowledge of biological systems and improving the diagnostics and treatment of diseases.

Expertise

  • Chemistry

    • Microfluidics
    • Procedure
    • Concentration
    • Deoxyribonucleic Acid
    • Device

  • Physics

    • Electrodes
    • Organ
    • Spermatozoa

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Ancillary activities

  • NWOcommittee member NWO faculty of impact
  • ElsevierEditor sensors and actuators A

The focus of this theme is on the development of microfluidic systems for (bio)-medical applications, thereby increasing the knowledge of biological systems and improving the diagnostics and treatment of diseases. Microfluidics are a perfect tool for this, since dimensions comparable to single cells are used, low sample volumes are needed and multiple functionalities can be integrated in one platform. As an example electrodes can be integrated in in these devices, making electrical measurements on single cells such as sperm cells, or a tissue layer like the blood-brain barrier possible. By carefully analyzing these electrical signals, information about the morphology of the sperm cell or tightness of the tissue layer can be retrieved, which can be used to gain information about the semen quality or the functioning of the blood-brain barrier. Additional useful information can be retrieved form (automated) optical analysis using for instance fluorescence or bright field microscopy. So using these and other (new) techniques in combination with microfluidics, biomedical microdevices are developed that can finally be of use in the clinic. There are collaborations with other research groups at this and other universities, but also with doctors at the hospital, making it an applied multidisciplinary research area.

Publications

2024

High-Risk Human Papillomavirus Detection: Towards Multiplex Point-of-Care Detection of HPV Using an Easy-to-use Device (2024)IEEE sensors journal. van Dongen, J. E., Folkertsma-Hendriks, L., Steenbergen, R. D. M. & Segerink, L.CRISPR/Cas enabled sweat analysis: Paving the way for non-invasive point-of-care detection of pathogens by analyzing Cas12a trans-cleavage performance in Human sweat (2024)In IEEE biosensors proceedings . van Dongen, J. E., Moonen, E. J. M., Segerink, L. & den Toonder, J. M. J.Switching to external flows: Perturbations of developing vasculature within chicken chorioallantoic membrane (2024)Lab on a chip, 24, 3233-3242. Padmanaban, P., Galen, D. v., Salehi-Nik, N., Zakharova, M., Segerink, L. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1039/D4LC00311JInnovative electrode and chip designs for transendothelial electrical resistance measurements in organs-on-chips (2024)Lab on a chip, 24(5), 1121-1134. Holzreuter, M. & Segerink, L.https://doi.org/10.1039/D3LC00901GSwitching to external flows: perturbations of developing vasculature within chicken chorioallantoic membrane (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. bioRxiv. Padmanaban, P., Galen, D. v., Salehi-Nik, N., Zakharova, M., Segerink, L. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.11.575208

2023

Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for Single Sperm Analysis: Towards Morphology Characterization (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Kruit, S. A.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558341Detection of cancer in urine (2023)[Patent › Patent]. Rurup, W. F., Segerink, L., van den Berg, A., Kraaijenhagen, R., Pinedo, H. M., Steenbergen, R. D. M., Nieuwenhuijzen, J. A., Bahce, I. & Kazemier, G.Development of a Synovium-on-Chip Model with a Porous Membrane to Study Inflammatory Arthritis (2023)[Contribution to conference › Poster] NanoBioTech Montreux 2023. Spoelstra, L. R., Araújo-Gomes, N., Zakharova - Kolezhuk, M., Welting, T. J. M., Karperien, M., Segerink, L. & Le Gac, S.Digital Single Cancer Biomarker Detection Using CRISPR/Cas Sensing (2023)[Contribution to conference › Poster] CRISPR 2023. van Dongen, J. E., Berendsen, J. T. W., Eijkel, J. C. T. & Segerink, L.Automated assessment of human engineered heart tissues using deep learning and template matching for segmentation and tracking (2023)Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, 8(3). Article e10513. Rivera-Arbeláez, J. M., Keekstra, D., Cofiño-Fabres, C., Boonen, T., Dostanic, M., ten Den, S. A., Vermeul, K., Mastrangeli, M., van den Berg, A., Segerink, L. I., Ribeiro, M. C., Strisciuglio, N. & Passier, R.https://doi.org/10.1002/btm2.10513

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Selected projects:

  • Microfluidics systems for semen analysis;
  • Technological developments in organ-on-chips
  • Early cancer diagnostics
  • Biomarker detection using microfluidic systems
  • Protoplast research on a chip

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