Pre-Conference

Close to the 11 BBMEC conference, a Task Group Meeting is organized related to the IUPAC project #2011-047-1-500 entitled “Recent advances in bioanalytical chemistry: characterization and classification - Revision of the Orange Book Chapter 11” (Task Group chairman, Professor Jan Labuda, Slovakia, ). The objective of this Analytical Chemistry Division project is to bring in terms of concepts and definitions a characterization and classification as well as related methodology of new fields of bioanalytical chemistry such as genomics, proteomics and others and to provide analytical, biochemical, and biomedical communities with critical evaluation on this topic.

The meeting is prepared on Sunday 27 September, 2015 in the Chemistry building. The Task Group members and contributors to the Orange Book Chapter are looking forward to meet other colleagues and to fruitful discussion. Contact for more information: jan.labuda@stuba.sk, +421-904-174117.
Jan Labuda, Project Task Group chairman

Details: Category: Program; Last Updated: 24 September 2015

For the first time, BBMEC is offering a special pre-conference session that targets graduate students and postdocs. Young researchers will be brought together and provided with the opportunity to exchange ideas, talk about their research in oral and poster presentations, discuss challenges and opportunities as well as network. This session will start on Saturday evening with a keynote speaker and a networking mixer. Sunday, the day will be filled with oral and poster presentations and will end by joining the opening session of the main conference on Sunday evening.

This conference session will be organized by graduate students from the University of Regensburg and mentored by the conference chair, Antje Baeumner. Young researchers planning to attend the main BBMEC conference are encouraged to take advantage of this unique opportunity. It has been successfully tried in Gordon Conferences (such as the Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors and its associate Graduate Research Seminar).

The general pre-conference layout is shown below. Actual speakers will be selected upon abstract submission on a competitive basis. The young scientists will be informed in July whether their abstract was chosen for oral presentation.

P R E - C O N F E R E N C E organized by graduate students for graduate students and postdocs
Saturday 26/9/2015
3 p.m.	Registration opens
4 p.m. 4.45 p.m.	Keynote speaker Prof. Karsten Haupt, University of Compiegne, France Young scientist presentations
7 p.m.	Networking mixer
8 p.m.	Regensburg at night
Sunday 27/9/2015
8,45 a.m. 9.15 a.m.	Dr. Wolfgang Wachter, German Science Foundation Young scientist presentations
12 p.m.	Lunch break
1 p.m.	Poster session
2.30 p.m.	Young scientist presentations
4.15 p.m.	End of Pre-conference

Details: Category: Program; Last Updated: 09 August 2015

This conference will bring together world-renown researchers presenting their most current work relating to bioanalytical sensors. Innovation will be a red thread throughout the conference program. In good tradition with conferences such as previous BBMEC and the US-based Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors the participant size will be limited so that conferee networking and discussion sessions can become most productive and interesting.

Key features of the conference are:

Keynote and half of all oral presentations are held by invited speakers
Presentation of unpublished data
Ample discussion time after each presentation
High prominence and importance of the poster session
Pre-conference graduate student/postdoc symposium

The main conference program will start with a keynote presentation for all participants on Sunday evening. Prior to the opening, a pre-conference will be organized targeting graduate students and postdocs (no senior researchers are “allowed”). Here, several students will be selected from submitted poster abstracts to give an oral presentation. Discussion, networking and poster session will be organized starting Saturday evening and last until the opening of the main conference. This concept has been tried previously successfully at Gordon Research Conferences and found to be a highly effective strategy to provide young researchers with networking opportunities, encourage participation in discussion at the pre- and main-conferences, and also provide students with more opportunities for oral presentation. Graduate students and postdocs are therefore encouraged to register for the pre-conference in addition to the main conference.

M A I N - C O N F E R E N C E Innovation for Bioanalytical Sensors and their Applications
Sunday 27/9/2015
3 p.m.	Registration opens
5 p.m.	Welcome Address by conference chair Antje J. Baeumner
5:10 p.m.	Keynote Speaker, Joseph Wang, UC San Diego, USA Nanomotor-based biosensing: Moving the receptor around the sampler
6 p.m.	Lisa Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Bioinspired semiconducting nanoparticles
6:45 p.m.	Welcome mixer with food, drinks, time for networking, first peeks at posters and discussion with exhibitors
9 p.m.	End of conference day.
Monday 28/9/2015
9 a.m.	Andrew Ellington, University of Texas, Austin, USA Signaling: creating something from nothing or why equilibrium is overrated
9:45 a.m.	Laura Lechuga, ICN2, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Nanophotonic lab-on-a-chip biosensors for the next diagnostics generation
10:30 a.m.	Shimshon Belkin, Hebrew University (HUJI), Jerusalem, Israel Microbial biosensors for the remote detection of buried landmines
11:15 a.m.	Jiri Homola, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic Plasmonic affinity biosensors
12 p.m.	Lunch break
1 p.m.	Poster session A (coffee available)
2 p.m.	Poster session B (coffee available)
3 p.m.	Ute Resch-Genger, Fed. Inst. of Materials Research & Testing, Berlin, Germany Methods for the determination of the optical properties and the surface chemistry of fluorescent particles
3:40 p.m.	Man Bock Gu, Korea University, Seoul, Rep. of Korea Dual aptamers and flexible aptamers-based biosensors
4:20 p.m.	Jenny Emneus, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Microfluidic electrochemical arrays for biosensing applications
5 p.m.	Petra Dittrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cell-derived vesicles on microfluidic platforms for pharmaceutical and diagnostic applications
5:40 p.m.	Petr Skladal, CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Biosensing with AFM
6.10 p.m.	End of conference day. Possibility to participate in guided tour of Regensburg (registration required)
Tuesday 29/9/2015
9 a.m.	Dieter Braun, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany Novel sample preparation strategies for bioanalytical sensors
9:45 a.m.	Sam Nugen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Engineering bacteriophages for rapid food and environmental bacteria sensing
10:30 a.m.	Margaret Frey, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Electrospun nanofibers for biosensors
11:15 a.m.	Ursula Sauer, AIT Institute of Technology, Austria Making protein biochips more attractive for real-life applications
11:45 a.m.	Katie Edwards, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Liposomes and magnetic attraction
12:15 p.m.	Lunch break
1 p.m.	Poster session A (coffee available)
2 p.m.	Poster session B (coffee available)
3 p.m.	Christoph Kutter, EMFT, Fraunhofer Society, Munich, Germany Sensors for the internet of things
3:40 p.m.	Yoshinobu Baba, Nagoya University, Japan Nanobiodevices for cancer diagnosis, cancer therapy, and iPS cell-based regenerative medicine
4:20 p.m.	Karl-Heinz Feller, Ernst-Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany A cell-based lab-on-a-chip as an alternative method for skin irradiation tests
5:00 p.m.	Markus Fischer, University of Hamburg, Germany Just in Time-Selection: A semiautomated two-step method for in vitro selection of DNA aptamers
5:40 p.m.	Michael Seidel, TU Munich, Germany Rapid detection of pathogens by flow-based chemiluminescence microarrays
6:10 p.m.	Roberto Pilloton, CNR, Roma, Italy Information on the 12th BBMEC in 2017
6:20 p.m.	End of conference day.
7:30 p.m.	Conference Dinner in the Salzstadl at the Steinerne Brücke, old town Regensburg
Wednesday 30/9/2015
9 a.m.	Andrea Robitzki, Leipzig University, Germany Bioelectronics high-content screening of chemotherapeutics in tumor micro-fragments in real-time regarding chemosensitivity
9:40 a.m.	Dianping Tang, Fuzhou University, PR China Immunosensors and immunoassays exploiting nanostructure labels
10:20 a.m.	Suna Timur, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey Design of novel surfaces for selective cell adhesion and biosensing
11 a.m.	Julia Perez-Prieto, University of Valencia, Spain Acid resistant upconverting nanoparticles
	Promising Young Scientist Talks selected from posters
11:40 a.m.	t.b.a.
11:55 a.m.	t.b.a.
12:10 p.m.	t.b.a.
12:25 p.m.	Poster Award Ceremony
12:45 p.m.	Lunch and end of the Conference.
1 p.m.	Featured talk for BBMEC and COST Workshop participants: Sam Lawrence, CytoViva Characterizing Upconverting Nanoparticles with Hyperspectral Microscopy

Details: Category: Program; Last Updated: 27 August 2015

•	Yoshinobu Baba
	*Nanobiodevices for Medical Innovation*
	Applied Analytical Chemistry Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan
•	Shimshon Belkin
	*Microbial biosensors for the remote detection of buried landmines*
	Institute of Life Sciences Faculty of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
•	Dieter Braun
	*Novel sample preparation strategies for bioanalytical sensors*
	Systems Biophysics Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany
•	Petra Dittrich
	*Cell-derived vesicles on microfluidic platforms for pharmaceutical and diagnostic applications*
	Associate Professor for Bioanalytics ETH Zurich – Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering Zurich, Switzerland
•	Andrew Ellington
	*Signaling: creating something from nothing, or why equilibrium is overrated*
	Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas Austin, TX, USA
•	Jenny Emneus
	*Microfluidic electrochemical arrays for biosensing applications*
	DTU NANOTECH, Dept. of Micro- and Nanotechnology Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby Copenhagen, Denmark
•	Margaret Frey
	*Electrospun nanofibers for biosensors*
	Dept. of Fiber Science and Apparel Design Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA
•	Man Bock Gu
	*Dual Aptamers and Flexible Aptamers based Biosensors*
	College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology Korea University of Seoul Seoul, Korea
•	Karsten Haupt
	*Biosensors based on Molecular Imprinted Polymers*
	Professor for Nanobiotechnology Compiègne University of Technology Compiègne, France
•	Lisa Hall

	Professor of Analytical Biotechnology Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom
•	Jirí Homola
	*Plasmonic affinity biosensors*
	Institute of Photonics and Electronics The Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
•	Laura Lechuga
	*Nanophotonic lab-on-a-chip biosensors for the next diagnostics generation*
	NanoBiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), CSIC and CIBER-BBN, Campus UAB Barcelona, Spain
•	Sam R. Nugen
	*Engineering Bacteriophages for Rapid Food and Environmental Bacterial Sensing*
	Dept. of Food Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA
•	Ute Resch-Genger
	*Methods for the determination of the optical properties and the surface chemistry of fluorescent particles*
	Division Biophotonics Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing Berlin, Germany
•	Dianping Tang
	*Immunosensors and immunoassays exploiting nanostructure labels*
	Institute of Nanomedicine and Nanobiosensing MOE Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection of Food Safety, Fuzhou University Fuzhou, PR China
•	Suna Timur
	*Design of Novel Surfaces for Selective Cell Adhesion and Biosensing*
	Biochemistry Department Ege University, Faculty of Science Izmir,Turkey
•	Joseph Wang
	*Nanobiomachines*
	Chair of Nanoengineering University California San Diego(UCSD) LaJolla, CA, USA