Emerging Bioanalytical Sensors

Description:
Sensing is an ever-growing field and hence there is an increasing demand for rapid, robust, and high-sensitivity sensors for a wide range of applications including clinical diagnosis, point-of-care, and health monitoring. Significant efforts are underway in the sensing community not only to improve the sensors’ performance but also to create portable sensors for on-site, on-demand, and real-time sensing and also to expand their use in monitoring neurotransmitters and cell-cell communications. This symposium will highlight the novel and emerging sensing approaches that are geared towards realizing the best possible outcomes through the development of multiplexed and real-time sensing of biomarkers and even re-imagining current sensors in order to achieve a high-confidence detection.

Speaker: Soma Dhakal - Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Dhakal is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). His research involves multiplexed detection of biomarkers, aptamer-based sensing, and protein/DNA biophysics. He has published several papers on his sensing work using single-molecule methods. He has recently developed single-molecule sensors for high-confidence detection of DNA and miRNA cancer biomarkers.