08:00 | Registration |
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Next Generation Biosensors and Biodetection Techniques |
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09:00 |  | Keynote Presentation Turning Biosensors into Consumer Products
Anthony Turner, Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden
Consumer applications of biosensors for personal health maintenance, food quality and safety, and for environmental monitoring will be reviewed, along with wearable and implantable devices. A new fully-printed biosensing system will be unveiled with the potential to make biosensors as ubiquitous as the RFID tag. |
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10:00 | Fluorescent Biosensors and Targeted Physiological Indicators for Cell Pathways
Alan Waggoner, Director, Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
We develop fluorescent biosensors toolkits for analysis of pathways of living cells. Focus is on smart biosensors for high throughput methods. Our biosensor platform consists of Fluorescence Activating Proteins (FAPs) that bind fluorogen dyes with large fluorescence increases. Sensors have been developed to rapidly and selectively track FAP labeled proteins such as GPCRs. This platform is proving promising for developing calcium, pH, sodium, potassium and redox sensors that will emit signals only from investigator-targeted regions of a cell. Sensors for protein-protein interactions and protein modification are in progress. Collaborations drug discovery programs are essential for testing new biosensors and feedback. |
10:30 | Coffee and Networking in Exhibiton Hall |
11:15 |  | Keynote Presentation Approaches to Life Detection and Characterisation in Remote and Extreme Environments
David Cullen, Professor, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Detection, quantification and characterisation of Life in remote and extreme environments – beneath glaciers, in the stratosphere and on Mars – pose a number of challenges that have relevance to biodetection elsewhere. Examples of on-going research into these areas will be given. |
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12:15 | Lunch and Networking in Exhibition Hall |
13:30 | Poster Viewing Session |
14:15 | Smart Capsules for Biosensing
Martin Mak, Research Fellow, Linkoping University, Sweden
Smart Capsules for Biosensing: Microcapsule Design and Interfacial Engineering |
14:45 | Towards Functional Microbial Sensor Cell Arrays
Shimshon Belkin, Professor and Director, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Live sensor cell arrays based on genetically engineered microorganisms offer unique advantages in the multiplexed combinatorial analysis of diverse samples such as water, air, soil or food. The rationale for such arrays will be discussed, and molecular and engineering approaches for their construction will be described, as well as the means for deciphering their signals. |
15:15 | Coffee and Networking in Exhibiton Hall |
16:00 | Nanobiosensors Based on Nanovesicles Containing Olfactory Receptors
Josep Samitier, Associate Director, University of Barcelona, Spain
Natural vesicles produced from genetically engineered cells with tailored membrane receptor composition are promising building blocks for sensing biodevices. |
16:30 | Micro and Nanostructured Molecularly Imprinted Polymers as Synthetic Receptos for Sensors
Karsten Haupt, Professor, Compiegne University of Technology, France
Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are synthetic receptors produced by molding a polymer around a molecular template. MIPs may be used in the place of biomolecules as recognition elements in chemical sensors and biochips. This talk will address specific challenges of nano and micropatterning MIPs at surfaces, using optical techniques like contact and projection photolithography, near-field photolithography and holography. In addition, we will describe a number of approaches to optical sensing with MIPs, and present a few examples of microsensors, microbiochips, and individual nanosensors. |
17:00 | Next Generation Biosensors: Opportunities in Transdermal Monitoring
David Heath, Research Assistant, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
An ageing population and the increasing need for management of chronic conditions is leading to a large population in need of monitoring and support. This will be increasingly performed through primary healthcare, pharmacies and in a home setting. Science and technology is expected to make a significant contribution to this monitoring and support. The field of wearable sensors that report via wireless systems is advancing, but biosensors are notably missing from current systems. The biosensor community needs to find ways of bringing its work to the wider population for telemedicine or telehealthcare. Due to the potential for access through skin, transdermal monitoring is an attractive approach towards non-invasive continuous monitoring via skin mounted biosensors. However, there are important technical challenges that must be addressed through skin mounted sensors and sensor patch design. More importantly, there are key scientific challenges in accounting for the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of human skin in vivo that must also be understood. Work is currently underway to address these challenges with the aim of enabling flexibility in biosensor selection, and providing a wider range of diagnostic systems for use in the home, community or clinic. |
17:45 | Round Table Discussions in the Exhibition Hall |
