Symposium 1

From Single Biomolecule Electrochemistry to Biosensors and Biofuel Cells

Sponsoring Division: Division 2, Bioelectrochemistry
Bioelectrochemistry is a highly interdisciplinary research area and it is hoped that this symposium will stimulate fruitful exchanges of ideas and open up new perspectives for the future. This symposium includes a broad variety of scholarly approaches leading to a better understanding of all living things at the macroscopic, microscopic/single-cell and nanoscopic/molecular level. Moreover beneficial applications in medicine, agriculture, industry, and ecology are to be expected.

Topics will include:

• Imaging biological and biomimetic charged interfaces
• Electron transfer pathways between proteins, redox enzymes and cells (prokaryotic and eukaryotic) and electrode surfaces
• Biosensors - novel sensor architectures and immobilization strategies of enzymes, cells, and tissues
• Biofuel cells - cathodes and anodes, limitations of the present devices and challenges
• In vivo electrochemical sensing

Symposium organizers:
Ana Maria Oliveira-Brett (coordinator), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, brett@ci.uc.pt
Renata Bilewicz, Warsaw University, Poland, bilewicz@chem.uw.edu.pl
Ernesto Calvo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, calvo@qi.fcen.uba.ar
Lo Gorton, Lund University, Sweden, Lo.Gorton@analykem.lu.se
Wolfgang Schuhmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany,
wolfgang.schuhmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de