Programme

The programme for the 1st UK-US Conference on Chemical and Biological Sensors and Detectors follows. For timings please download the pdf from this page.

A dedicated poster session took place at the conference where 21 posters were presented. For a full list of authors, please download the pdf from this page.

Session 1

Keynote 1: Automated Biosensors for BW Threat Detection
Frances Ligler, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Keynote 2: Stochastic sensing with engineered protein pores
Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK

Keynote 3: Nanoparticle approaches for detection of biomolecules
Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK

Detection of biological agents using bio-aerosol mass spectrometry
Erica L McJimpsey,*  Paul T Steele, Herbert Tobias, Bruce Woods, David Fergenson,  Matthias Frank, Keith Coffee, Vincent Riot , Kuan Jen J Wu, Eric E  Gard, Carlito Lebrilla, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Rapid characterisation of bacteria using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Royston Goodacre* and Roger Jarvis, University of Manchester UK

Toxicity sensors based on membrane organisation
Andrew Nelson, University of Leeds, UK

Non-antibody-based detection of biothreats
Chris R Taitt,* Nadia V Kulagina, George P Anderson, Frances S Ligler, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Bringing the power of immunoassay to rapid point-of-need tests for toxic chemical substances
Colin Self, Selective Antibodies Ltd, UK

Session 2

Keynote 4: Ultrasensitive detection with optical sensor microarrays
David Walt, Tufts University, USA

Development of low-cost multi-channel aerosol fluorescence sensors
Virginia Foot*, Stephen J Barrington, Andy Pickering and Paul H Kaye, DSTL, UK

Advances in vapor phase explosives detection: laser sensors, photonic bandgap fibers, and RDX and TATP- detection
Aimee Rose, ICx-Nomadics, USA

Towards new imagining technology using delayed florescence
Andrew C Benniston* and Anthony Harriman, University of Newcastle, UK

Session 3

Keynote 5: Desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and miniature mass spectrometry: A general approach for threat detection
Robert Noll, Purdue University, UK

Lab-on-a-pill: future directions in low power microfluidics for wireless biosensors
Jon Cooper, University of Glasgow, UK

A piezoresistive cantilever-based sensor for gas-phase chemical detection
Bradley R Hart*, Timothy V Ratto, Albert Loui, Thomas S Wilson, Erik V Mukerjee, Todd A Sulchek and Stephan P Velsko, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

The development of a handheld amperometric explosives biosensor, involving the orientationally controlled assembly of genetically modified enzymes
C D Gwenin* and M Kalaji,  University of Wales Bangor, UK

Field-based detection and identification of hazardous gases and vapors using hand-held, ruggedized orthogonal sensing technology
Eric G Diken*, Aaron Gagnon and Iain May, Smiths Detection, USA

Session 4

Keynote 6: Managing the sample interface: a materials strategy for staging
Pankaj Vadgama, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Enzyme-based sensors for the detection of high explosives
Neil C Bruce*, Zoe Symons, Rosamund Jackson, Nicholas Goddard and Stephen Nicklin, University of York, UK

Bioinspired defence:  How can nature benefit defence and national security?
Peter D E Biggins*, Anne Kusterbeck, Lars T Piehler, John Lewis and John A Hiltz, DSTL, UK

Keynote 7: Ultrasensitive Biosensing with Enzymatically Amplified SPR Imaging
Robert Corn, University of California, USA

Intelligent fingerprinting with antibody-functionalised nanoparticles
Richard Leggett, Emma E  Lee-Smith, Sue M Jickells and David A Russell* UEA, UK

A review of biosensors for explosives detection
Richard Smith, DSTL Fort Halstead, UK

Resequencing DNA Microarray for Broad Spectrum Pathogen Identification and Characterization
Baochuan Lin, Anthony P Malanoski, Kate M Blaney, Zheng Wang, Carolyn E Meador, Clark Tibbetts, Joel M Schnur*, David A Stenger, Naval Research Laboratory

Session 5

Explosives detection with organic hydride donors
Trisha L Andrew* and Timothy M Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Spiropyran-based polymer: A new approach to chemical sensing
Aleksandar Radu*, Silvia Scarmagnani, Robert Byrne, Conor Slater, Nameer Alhashimy and Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University, Ireland

Development of carbon nanotube-based sensors
Lee Hubble*, R John Watling and Colin Raston, University of Western Australia, Australia

Advances in fabrication of silver nanostructures for use in surface enhanced raman spectroscopy - prospect of ultra-sensitive detection of explosives
Azfar Ali Syed and S Rafi Ahmad*, Cranfield University, UK

Keynote 8: From detectors to detection. Systems, networks, and the human interface
Duane Lindner, Sandia National Laboratories, USA