Biosensing applications such as immunosensors, DNA sensors, automated portable bioanalysers and others are the most important candidates to be powerful analytical devices for many different technological areas including clinical, pharmaceutical, food control, environmental pollution, biological warfare agents, and bioprocess monitoring. Biosensor technologies consist of a combination of biology, chemistry, electronic, material, and computer sciences. Nowadays nanostructured materials are used in both immobilisation procedures and transducer fabrication as the miniaturisation is the key prominent necessity for the future. The 4th International congress on biosensors allows all biosensor researchers to discuss and share scientific important developments in nanomaterials used in the fields, new immobilisation techniques, and innovative biosensor designs.
The scientific program of the congress consists of 17 sessions that include 10 invited and 43 oral presentations as well as 39 posters to be presented in the respective sessions. A workshop on ‘Electrochemical Impedance based Immunosensors’ has also been included in the Congress program. Besides, it was also performed two different short workshops on electrochemical techniques and electrochemical equipment.
Invited lecturers
CAMPUZANO RUIZ, Susana (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
ERDEM GÜRSAN, Kadriye Arzum (Ege University, Turkey)
MARTY, Jean Louis (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France)
ÖZKAN, Sibel Ayşıl (Ankara University, Turkey)
PILLOTON, Roberto (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
RIVAS, Gustavo (National University of Cordoba, Argentina)
URBAN, Gerald (University of Freiburg, Germany)
ÜLGÜT, Burak (Bilkent University, Turkey)
RAMANICIUS, Arunas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)
ŞEKER, Urartu Özgür Şafak (Bilkent University, Turkey)
This congress was certainly a special chance for the specialists who work for the development of biosensor technologies, in research and commercial development. It was an opportunity to listen, to discuss, to share all developments in the field and to plan for the future possible international collaborations. Actually, this congress was an important occasion to meet well-known scientist in the field of biosensors and to discuss the current and innovative ways for the development of high-performance biosensing technologies.
Within in the congress special issue, 11 manuscripts were accepted after the peer-reviewed process for the publication. The scientific content of this special issue consists of nanoparticle-based electrochemical sensors, disposable biosensors for the detection of biomarkers and hormones, and fluorescence-based monitoring systems. Besides the special issue also consists three review papers that report electrochemical techniques for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes, label-free impedimetric biosensors for the food control, and the evaluation of the food contaminant biosensors.