Macro, Micro, and Nano-biosensors: Potential Applications and Possible Limitations

Section I: Macro-, Micro- and Nanofabication of Biosensors

1. Macro-, micro- and nanosensors based on biological / chemical materials

2. Bactericidal, fungicidal and immunomodulating activity of nano-surfaces

3. Enzymatic Tissue Biotests (MAO and AChE biotests) and Bioindicators

4. Is it possible to detect less than one bacterial cell?

Section II: The use of biosensors for the detection of biological and chemical objects

5. SERS for bacterial, virus and protein bio-sensing

6. Biosensors for virus detection

7. Specific immobilization of rotaviruses for atomic force microscopy with using Langmuir antibody films based on amphiphilic polyelectrolytes

8. Fluorimetric and SERS sensor systems for diagnostics and monitoring of catecholamines-dependent diseases

9. Enhanced sensitivity rapid tests for the detection of sepsis marker procalcitonin

10. Analytical capabilities of some biosensors for the determination of drugs

11. Electrochemical DNA sensors based on nanostructured polymeric materials for determination of antitumor drugs

12. Variants of amperometric biosensors in the determination of some micotoxins: analytical capabilities

13. New class of diagnostic systems based on polyelectrolyte microcapsules for urea detection

14. Bioluminescent nano- and micro-biosensing elements for detection of organophosphorous compounds

Section III: Features of the determination of glucose

15. Nano- and microelectrochemical biosensors for determining blood glucose

16. Micro-Electrochemical SMBG Biosensor Chip Design Development for Sustainable Mass Production based on the Strategic Platform Patent Map

Section VI: Biofuel elements and self- powered biosensors for human health

17. Biological Fuel Cells: Applications in Health Service and Ecology

18. Recent Trends in Fabrication and Applications of Wearable Bioelectronics for Early-Stage Disease Monitoring and Diagnosis

19. Self-powered biosensors in medicine and ecology

20. Self-powered implantable biosensors - a review of recent advancements and future perspectives

Professor Mahendra Rai is a Basic Science Research Faculty Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, Amravati University in Maharashtra, India. He has published more than 400 research publications, 100 popular articles in journals of high repute and around 55 books from reputed publishers like Elsevier, CABI, Springer, CRC, Taylor and Francis, Wiley and Scientific Publisher. He has received several prestigious awards, including the father T.A. Mathias award (1989) from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini award (1999) from the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He also received SERC visiting fellowship by Department of Science and Technology (1996), INSA visiting fellowship by Indian National Science Academy (1998) and TWAS-UNESCO Associateship (2002), Italy. Dr. Rai serves as a referee for more than 20 international journals and is a member of editorial board of more than ten national and international journals. He hasapproximately three decades of teaching and research experience. The main focus of his research is nanobiotechnology, nanobiosensors, and nanobased bioactives against human pathogenic microbes.

Professor Anatoly Reshetilov has a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics and Doctoral degree in Analytical Biotechnology . He is a leading research scientist of the Federal Research Center Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms Russian Academy of Sciences. At present he is the Head of the Laboratory of Biosensors. The scope of his work includes: Analytical biotechnology, analytical biochemistry; application of enzymes, microorganisms, immunoactive components (antibodies/antigens) for development of recognition elements of biosensors. Construction of portable analytical biosensor based systems for detection of water quality, soil pollution; risk assessment;medical, biological analysis; control of biotechnological processes. Evaluation of laboratory scale model biosensors in practical conditions. Development of the microbial fuel cells. He is the author and co-author in more than 250 scientific papers and patents in Russian and foreign publications.

Dr. Yulia Viktorovna Plekhanova is researcher in the Federal research center "Pushchino scientific center for biological research of the Russian Academy of Sciences", G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Pushchino, Russia. She is Ph.D. in Biological Sciences. Her interest and experience mainly include preparation of biosensors with electrochemical principle of detection, the effect of modifications of graphite electrodes by various nanomaterials (multi-walled carbon nanotubes, metal particles, etc.) on the properties and characteristics of biosensors. She utilizes a variety of electroanalytical techniques (linear polarization, cyclic voltammetry, impedance spectroscopy) to study enzymes and bacterial cells. She explores the properties and possibilities of microbial biofuel cells as potential power source for biomedical accessories and wastewaters purification. She is the co-author of 5 patents, more than 40 articles in domestic and foreign journals and participant of Russian and international conferences.

Dr Avinash P. Ingle is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena, University of São Paulo, Lorena, SP., Brazil. He has completed his doctoral degree from Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He had worked as Research Scientist in the same department from 2013-2016. He has more than 70 research publications, 45 book chapters and 6 books to his credit. Dr. Ingle serving as a referee for more than 20 international journals and is a member of editorial board of about 5 national and international journals. Currently, Dr. Ingle is actively engaged in development nanotechnology-based methods for the efficient production of biofuels and his research interest include utilization of nanomaterials for different applications in medicines, biofuels and agriculture.