Recent progresses in integration of photonic and optoelectronic devices with lab-on-a-chip systems have enabled the development of compact, low-cost, and high-throughput platforms for novel biomedical applications. Optofluidics and optoelectronic fluidics are now two emerging fields that have attracted a lot of research interests due to their potentials in solving important biological problems through the development of technologies between the interfaces of photonics, optoelectronics, microfluidics and nanofluidics, and biology. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Photonics and optoelectronic devices for micro and nano-object manipulation such as cell and molecule trapping, sorting, and patterning
• Photonics and optoelectronics devices for microfluidics and nanofluidics manipulation such as pumping, mixing, and switching
• Photonics and optoelectronics devices for novel optical detection and imaging
• Photothermal actuation
• Hybrid photonics and optoelectronics devices for lab-on-a-chip

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