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Biosensors 2012
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 40 (2013) 1–2
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bios
Preface
Biosensors 2012
Welcome to this Special Edition of Biosensors and Bioelectronics containing selected papers from the 22nd Anniversary Edition of the World Congress on Biosensors. Biosensors 2012 was held in Cancu´n, Mexico, which is located on the north-eastern coast of the Yucata´n Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 May 2012. The main Congress comprised a three-day intensive programme preceded by the now traditional and highly popular one-day Summer School on Biosensors. The World Congress has alternated biannually between the continents since 1990, serving the Biosensors community as the principal vehicle to meet and discuss our rapidly expanding subject. The rate of publication and commercial expansion of our area never ceases to amaze me; 11% of all papers ever published on Biosensors were published in the last year and the total worldwide sales of Biosensors now exceeds 13 billion US dollars. In addition to efforts focussed on the commercialisation of biosensors themselves, the expanding academic market has spawned extraordinary and unconventionally aggressive competition in both the publishing and conferencing arenas. In the worst case, this threatens to confuse and dilute many years of effort to consolidate the field. However, hopefully a discerning audience will see its way through the current maze of offerings. As new knowledge emerges, we continue to see our innovative community absorbing ideas and expanding the possibilities to deliver new measurement science and devices to meet the burgeoning needs of society for personalised diagnostics and a safe and secure environment (Figs. 1–4). For those delegates with a little more time available, we included a pre-congress Summer School on Printed Biosensors and Electronics, aimed at providing an in depth and tutorial view ¨ of this specialist topic. This was organised by Linkoping University in association with Elsevier and supported by our main sponsor, Erkon. The increasing popularity of the Summer School was demonstrated by the capacity audience of around 100 delegates. Perhaps the sudden tropical downpour on this day stimulated last minute interest, but whatever the reason, we were forced to turn away last minute registrants. Those delegates who had pre-registered were treated to a unique insight into the commercial reality of biosensor production with copious amounts of information being provided that does not appear in the conventional academic literature. This ‘‘how-to-really-do-it’’ day was extremely well received by the audience. Each day of the main Congress commenced with a plenary session, featuring a selection of speakers designed to stimulate and stretch the boundaries of the continually evolving field of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The opening talk was given by the World’s most cited chemist, Professor Chad Mirkin from 0956-5663/$ - see front matter & 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2012.07.056
Northwestern University (USA). He delivered an inspiring account of single-cell analysis of intracellular content using ‘‘nano-flares’’. This was followed by Professor Christian Amatore (Ecole Supe´rieure, France) presenting his work on the use of amperometry and fluorescence to monitor exocytosis. We had two plenary speakers from Korea, Professors Man Bock Gu (Korea University) and JeongWoo Choi (Sogang University), which was the first time Korea featured in our plenary sessions. Professor Till Bachmann (University of Edinburgh, UK) provided an illuminating insight into the importance of personalised medicine in the design of companion diagnostics. Professor Wolfgand Knoll (Austrian Institute of Technology) was unfortunately unable to deliver his plenary address due to a medical emergency, but he has kindly agreed to come to Biosensors 2014 instead. In his place we substituted a last minute replacement, the winner of this year’s Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award, Dr Yaron Silberg. These plenary talks were then followed by four parallel sessions within the three-day format. Contributors selected their own topic areas, and inevitably there were difficult choices to make as to which session to attend. All talks attracted large and enthusiastic audiences, and lively question and answer sessions followed nearly every presentation. Competition for presentations at Biosensors 2012 was as always, intense, but we had increased the number of oral slots since the last Congress so that about 15% of the 1000 submitted abstracts gained the necessary ranking from the three Committee members allocated to mark every submission. In addition, as part of our continuing commitment to quality, we selected the 16 topscoring papers for funded Keynote presentations and entry to the prestigious Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award, for the most original and novel contribution to the special Congress issue of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The Award was presented at the Congress Banquet and the winning paper was ‘‘Evaluation of the actin cytoskeleton state using an antibody-functionalized nanoneedle and AFM’’ by Yaron R. Silberberg, Shingo Mieda, Yosuke Amemiya, Toshiya Sato, Takanori Kihara, Noriyuki Nakamura, Kyoko Fukazawa, Kazuhiko Ishihara, Jun Miyake and Chikashi Nakamur. The runners up were papers by Golden et al. and Jeong et al. on ‘‘Automated processing integrated with a microflow cytometer for pathogendetection in clinical matrices’’ and ‘‘Detection of Vimentin 1 Serine Phosphorylation by Multicolor Quenchbodies’’, respectively. All three final winning papers can be found at the beginning of this Special Issue. The banquet featured Mexican fare with a Mariachi band playing in traditional style and was followed by a free show and dancing for all delegates. This latter innovation was designed to facilitate even greater social interaction over and above the conventional formal dinner. The oral presentations were complimented by a rigorously refereed selection of 523
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Fig. 1. Biosensors 2012 attendees. There were 688 attendees at the Congress including invited speakers and exhibitors, with 654 registered delegates and 154 oral presentations.
200
Number of Oral Presentations Accepted for the Biosensors Congress
150 100
133 96
96
154 2006
Fig. 3. Plenary session at Biosensors 2012. The main hall at the Iberostar, Cancu´n had capacity for a thousand delegates with simultaneous projection on four screens.
2008 2010
50
2012
0 Orals Fig. 2. Number of oral presentations accepted. The number of oral papers accepted for presentation at the World Congress on Biosensors (2006–2012) has increased due to increasing delegate numbers and an increase in the number of slots made available in the programme.
posters, with authors in attendance for discussion at allocated times. The Committee took care to give as much prominence as possible to this important means of scientific exchange. Alongside the poster sessions we were pleased to profile our growing Commercial Exhibition, where the conference sponsors had the chance to discuss delegates’ needs and to facilitate their future work. We also experimented by offering exhibitors the chance to deliver short ‘‘elevator pitches’’ to highlight some of their key features, but had only one taker, and that was me! Other hitches included somewhat inclemently wet, although still warm, weather and a hiccup with customs. Delegates were not about to let these spoil their enjoyment however, and very few even mentioned these inconveniences in the subsequent feedback. A post-congress survey was conducted electronically and received a 42% response rate. The extensive and detailed comments will be used to improve the next event and I would like to thank all those who sent feedback. One interesting statistic showed that however much information is available online, our audience still very much appreciates the opportunity to meet in person: even if all the conference presentations were available swiftly online immediately after the conference, only 5.4% of respondents would probably or definitely not attend the next event. If you made it to the event in person, I hope that you had a wonderful Congress and a most enjoyable visit to Cancun. If you were unable to attend, I trust that you will appreciate these written highlights and that you will be able to come to Biosensors 2014. Last but not least I would like to extend my thanks to all the presenters, an incredibly hard working Committee, the wonderful support from Elsevier and the dedication of the journal’s editorial
Fig. 4. Poster session at Biosensors 2012. Three separate poster session were held on each of the consecutive days, with authors in attendance for discussion. Posters were adjacent to both the commercial exhibition and the refreshment stations.
staff. Immeasurable thanks also go to Dr Alice Tang-Turner for her sterling work in Editing this Special Edition. Diary note: Biosensors 2014 will be held from 26–30 May 2014 in Melbourne, Australia: www.biosensors-congress.elsevier.com
Anthony P.F. Turner World Congress Chair, Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFMLink¨ oping University, S-58183, Link¨ oping, Sweden E-mail address: [email protected] URL: http://www.ifm.liu.se/biosensors
Available online 7 August 2012
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bios
Preface
Biosensors 2012
Welcome to this Special Edition of Biosensors and Bioelectronics containing selected papers from the 22nd Anniversary Edition of the World Congress on Biosensors. Biosensors 2012 was held in Cancu´n, Mexico, which is located on the north-eastern coast of the Yucata´n Peninsula in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 May 2012. The main Congress comprised a three-day intensive programme preceded by the now traditional and highly popular one-day Summer School on Biosensors. The World Congress has alternated biannually between the continents since 1990, serving the Biosensors community as the principal vehicle to meet and discuss our rapidly expanding subject. The rate of publication and commercial expansion of our area never ceases to amaze me; 11% of all papers ever published on Biosensors were published in the last year and the total worldwide sales of Biosensors now exceeds 13 billion US dollars. In addition to efforts focussed on the commercialisation of biosensors themselves, the expanding academic market has spawned extraordinary and unconventionally aggressive competition in both the publishing and conferencing arenas. In the worst case, this threatens to confuse and dilute many years of effort to consolidate the field. However, hopefully a discerning audience will see its way through the current maze of offerings. As new knowledge emerges, we continue to see our innovative community absorbing ideas and expanding the possibilities to deliver new measurement science and devices to meet the burgeoning needs of society for personalised diagnostics and a safe and secure environment (Figs. 1–4). For those delegates with a little more time available, we included a pre-congress Summer School on Printed Biosensors and Electronics, aimed at providing an in depth and tutorial view ¨ of this specialist topic. This was organised by Linkoping University in association with Elsevier and supported by our main sponsor, Erkon. The increasing popularity of the Summer School was demonstrated by the capacity audience of around 100 delegates. Perhaps the sudden tropical downpour on this day stimulated last minute interest, but whatever the reason, we were forced to turn away last minute registrants. Those delegates who had pre-registered were treated to a unique insight into the commercial reality of biosensor production with copious amounts of information being provided that does not appear in the conventional academic literature. This ‘‘how-to-really-do-it’’ day was extremely well received by the audience. Each day of the main Congress commenced with a plenary session, featuring a selection of speakers designed to stimulate and stretch the boundaries of the continually evolving field of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The opening talk was given by the World’s most cited chemist, Professor Chad Mirkin from 0956-5663/$ - see front matter & 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2012.07.056
Northwestern University (USA). He delivered an inspiring account of single-cell analysis of intracellular content using ‘‘nano-flares’’. This was followed by Professor Christian Amatore (Ecole Supe´rieure, France) presenting his work on the use of amperometry and fluorescence to monitor exocytosis. We had two plenary speakers from Korea, Professors Man Bock Gu (Korea University) and JeongWoo Choi (Sogang University), which was the first time Korea featured in our plenary sessions. Professor Till Bachmann (University of Edinburgh, UK) provided an illuminating insight into the importance of personalised medicine in the design of companion diagnostics. Professor Wolfgand Knoll (Austrian Institute of Technology) was unfortunately unable to deliver his plenary address due to a medical emergency, but he has kindly agreed to come to Biosensors 2014 instead. In his place we substituted a last minute replacement, the winner of this year’s Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award, Dr Yaron Silberg. These plenary talks were then followed by four parallel sessions within the three-day format. Contributors selected their own topic areas, and inevitably there were difficult choices to make as to which session to attend. All talks attracted large and enthusiastic audiences, and lively question and answer sessions followed nearly every presentation. Competition for presentations at Biosensors 2012 was as always, intense, but we had increased the number of oral slots since the last Congress so that about 15% of the 1000 submitted abstracts gained the necessary ranking from the three Committee members allocated to mark every submission. In addition, as part of our continuing commitment to quality, we selected the 16 topscoring papers for funded Keynote presentations and entry to the prestigious Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award, for the most original and novel contribution to the special Congress issue of Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The Award was presented at the Congress Banquet and the winning paper was ‘‘Evaluation of the actin cytoskeleton state using an antibody-functionalized nanoneedle and AFM’’ by Yaron R. Silberberg, Shingo Mieda, Yosuke Amemiya, Toshiya Sato, Takanori Kihara, Noriyuki Nakamura, Kyoko Fukazawa, Kazuhiko Ishihara, Jun Miyake and Chikashi Nakamur. The runners up were papers by Golden et al. and Jeong et al. on ‘‘Automated processing integrated with a microflow cytometer for pathogendetection in clinical matrices’’ and ‘‘Detection of Vimentin 1 Serine Phosphorylation by Multicolor Quenchbodies’’, respectively. All three final winning papers can be found at the beginning of this Special Issue. The banquet featured Mexican fare with a Mariachi band playing in traditional style and was followed by a free show and dancing for all delegates. This latter innovation was designed to facilitate even greater social interaction over and above the conventional formal dinner. The oral presentations were complimented by a rigorously refereed selection of 523
2
Preface / Biosensors and Bioelectronics 40 (2013) 1–2
Fig. 1. Biosensors 2012 attendees. There were 688 attendees at the Congress including invited speakers and exhibitors, with 654 registered delegates and 154 oral presentations.
200
Number of Oral Presentations Accepted for the Biosensors Congress
150 100
133 96
96
154 2006
Fig. 3. Plenary session at Biosensors 2012. The main hall at the Iberostar, Cancu´n had capacity for a thousand delegates with simultaneous projection on four screens.
2008 2010
50
2012
0 Orals Fig. 2. Number of oral presentations accepted. The number of oral papers accepted for presentation at the World Congress on Biosensors (2006–2012) has increased due to increasing delegate numbers and an increase in the number of slots made available in the programme.
posters, with authors in attendance for discussion at allocated times. The Committee took care to give as much prominence as possible to this important means of scientific exchange. Alongside the poster sessions we were pleased to profile our growing Commercial Exhibition, where the conference sponsors had the chance to discuss delegates’ needs and to facilitate their future work. We also experimented by offering exhibitors the chance to deliver short ‘‘elevator pitches’’ to highlight some of their key features, but had only one taker, and that was me! Other hitches included somewhat inclemently wet, although still warm, weather and a hiccup with customs. Delegates were not about to let these spoil their enjoyment however, and very few even mentioned these inconveniences in the subsequent feedback. A post-congress survey was conducted electronically and received a 42% response rate. The extensive and detailed comments will be used to improve the next event and I would like to thank all those who sent feedback. One interesting statistic showed that however much information is available online, our audience still very much appreciates the opportunity to meet in person: even if all the conference presentations were available swiftly online immediately after the conference, only 5.4% of respondents would probably or definitely not attend the next event. If you made it to the event in person, I hope that you had a wonderful Congress and a most enjoyable visit to Cancun. If you were unable to attend, I trust that you will appreciate these written highlights and that you will be able to come to Biosensors 2014. Last but not least I would like to extend my thanks to all the presenters, an incredibly hard working Committee, the wonderful support from Elsevier and the dedication of the journal’s editorial
Fig. 4. Poster session at Biosensors 2012. Three separate poster session were held on each of the consecutive days, with authors in attendance for discussion. Posters were adjacent to both the commercial exhibition and the refreshment stations.
staff. Immeasurable thanks also go to Dr Alice Tang-Turner for her sterling work in Editing this Special Edition. Diary note: Biosensors 2014 will be held from 26–30 May 2014 in Melbourne, Australia: www.biosensors-congress.elsevier.com
Anthony P.F. Turner World Congress Chair, Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFMLink¨ oping University, S-58183, Link¨ oping, Sweden E-mail address: [email protected] URL: http://www.ifm.liu.se/biosensors
Available online 7 August 2012