Trade Fairs, Exhibitions, Conferences

The IVAM Hightech Summit brings together companies from the micro and nanotechnology sectors to present the latest technologies and products and discuss future developments.

The theme of the IVAM Hightech Summit in 2025 will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the IVAM professional association for microtechnology. This year's theme is “Tech United: Bridging Nations, Building Future.”

This year, our "Bioanalytics for Industrial Media" group from the Division Diagnostics in Dortmund will be exhibiting.

InBaDtec – On-site biological contamination detection in industrial fluid

InBaDtec aims to fulfill such technology gaps in order to realize automated preparation of water samples in prior to the use of qPCR analysis. It allows the direct on-site detection of pathogens from large amounts of water sample (one liter or more) in as fast as one hour. The integrated steps are mainly sample pre-cleaning, microorganism concentration, lysis, mixing, and PCR. An extra optional step to distinguish between live and dead pathogens can also be integrated to avoid false positive results from dead microorganisms. The InBaDtec project targets two initial applications, one is analyzing the Legionella in wastewater, and the other one is analyzing the Hormoconis resinae in kerosene. The processes are all done automatically, thus enabling point-of-use detection. The "InBaDtec" system itself can be completely cleaned and reused.

The Fraunhofer IMM device basically contains:

• a cleaning module to first remove excess dirt
• a two-step concentration module to reduce the water sample volume from liter to micro-liter level that can be used for PCR, while maximizing bacteria concentration efficiency
• a lysis unit to break apart the microorganisms allowing the release of its genetic material which is then mixed with pre-loaded lyophilized PCR reagents
• a miniaturized ultra-fast PCR module previously developed at IMM