Programme

The provisional programme for Faraday Discussion 149 is as follows.

A pdf version of the programme, which includes lecture times, is available to download from this page.

Introductory Lecture

Session 1: Systems and Devices to Inform Therapy

Amplified detection of DNA hybridization using post-labelling with a biotin-modified intercalator.
Magdalena Gebala, Leonard Stoica, Gerhard Hartwich, Dmitrii Guschin and Wolfgang Schuhmann*
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Development of reagents and assays for the detection of pathogenic Burkkholderia species
Omar Qazi, Mridula Rani, Annie J. Gnanam, Thomas W. Cullen, Christopher M. Stead, Haley Kensing, Kate Johnson, Sarah Ngugi, Joann L Prior, Alexandria Lipka, Judit M. Nagy, Gregory C. Whitlock, Barbara M. Judy, Sarah V. Harding, Richard W. Titball, M. Steven Trent, G Barrie Kitto, Alfredo Torres, D. Mark Estes, Brent Iverson, George Georgiou, and Katherine A. Brown*
Imperial College London, UK

Generic protease detection technology for monitoring periodontal disease
Xinwei Zheng, Joseph Cook, Michael Watkinson, Shoufeng Yang, Ian Douglas, Andrew Rawlinson and Steffi Krause*
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Nucleic acid aptamers: ideal reagents for point-of-care diagnostics?
Tony Cass*
Imperial College London, UK

Session 2: Systems and Devices to Inform Therapy 2

Bridging the bio/detector interface
Qifeng Song, Lukas Kurt Joseph Stadlerand Paul Ko Ferrigno*
University of Leeds, UK

Aptameric sensors based on structural change for diagnosis
Koichi Abe, Daisuke Ogasawara, Wataru Yoshida, Koji Sode and Kazunori Ikebukuro*
Tokyo University, Japan

Session 3: Towards Real Time Clinical Measurement

Multi-modal Molecular Imaging approaches to detect primary cells in preclinical models
Kev Dhaliwal* 
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Edinburgh, UK

A miniaturised integrated biophotonic point of care genotyping system
J M Girkin*, Mazher-Iqbal Mohammed and Elizabeth M Ellis
Durham University, UK

Diagnostics of Small Molecular Targets Based on Functional DNA Nanotechnology: Developing a Dipstick Test for Mercury
Seyed-Fakhreddin Torabi and Yi Lu*
University of Illinois, USA

Session 4: Towards Real Time Clinical Measurement 2

Very quick reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for detecting 2009 H1N1 influenza A using wire-guide droplet manipulations
David J. You, Phat L. Tran, Hyuck-Jin Kwon, Deepa Patel and Jeong-Yeol Yoon*
University of Arizona, USA

Multiphoton microscopy of transdermal quantum dot delivery using two photon polymerization-fabricated polymer microneedles
Shaun D Gittard, Philip R Miller, Ryan D Boehm, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Boris N Chichkov, Jeremy Heiser, John Gordon, Nancy A Monteiro-Riviere, Roger J Narayan*
North Carolina State University, USA

Session 5: High Throughput Methods of Analysis

Single-Cell Analysis of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase (PI3K) and Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog (PTEN) Activation
Nancy Albritton*
UNC Chapel Hill, USA

Peptide-tags for enhanced DNA microarray performance
Holger Schulze, Alan J. Ross, Stuart W.J Ember, Julie Luby, Mizanur Khondoker, Gerard Giraud, Ilenia Ciani, Chaker Tlili, Davide Papale, Jonathan G. Terry, Andrew R. Mount, Anthony J Walton, Jason Crain, Peter Ghazal, Till T. Bachmann and Colin J. Campbell*
University of Edinburgh, UK

Multimodal superparamagnetic nanoplatform for clinical applications: imunoassays, imaging and therapy
Laurence Motte*, Farah Benyettou, Caroline de Beaucorps, Marc Lecouvey , Irena Milesovic and Yoann Lalatonne
Universite Paris 13, France

Session 6: Physical Techniques for Diagnostics

New ionization methods and miniature mass spectrometers in biomedicine: DESI imaging for cancer diagnostics and paper spray ionization for therapeutic drug monitoring
Graham Cooks*
Purdue University, USA

Development of Carbon-Fluorine Spectroscopy for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications
Farid Menaa, Bouzid Menaa*, Olga Sharts
Flourotronics Inc., San Diego, USA

Exploiting the diagnostic potential of biomolecular fingerprinting with vibrational spectroscopy
C Kendall*, J Hutchings, H Barr, N Shepherd and N Stone
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Combining Functionalised Nanoparticles and SERS for the Detection of DNA Relating to Disease
Duncan Graham*, Ross Stevenson, David G. Thompson, Lee Barrett, Colette Dalton and Karen Faulds
University of Strathclyde, UK

Mesoporous silicon photonic crystalparticles: towards single cell optical biosensors
Bin Guan, Astrid Magenau, Krisopher A. Kilian, Simone Ciampi, Katharina Gaus, Peter J. Reece and J. Justin Gooding*
University of New South Wales, Australia

Development of smart nanoparticle-aptamer sensing technology
Haiyan Zhang, Peter G Stockley and Dejian Zhou*
University of Leeds, UK

Concluding Remarks

Pankaj Vadgama*
Queen Mary University of London, UK

* denotes presenting author, to whom affiliation applies