Biosensors signal measurement and processing

Yosi Shacham, Institute for Synthetic Biology, Reichman University, Herzlia, Israel (shacham.yosi@gmail.com)

Modern miniaturized biosensors (e.g. biochemical, bio electrochemical, bio-optical bioelectrical, biomechanical, etc.) are fabricated using micro and nanotechnologies for the substrate materials, patterning, and sensing. There are chemical, electrochemical, electrical, chemical, and physical sensors using a plethora of methods. The common issue is sampling biological signals and converting them to eclectically readable signals that can be processed, stored, and transferred via communication channels. All this generates a need to maximize the signal quality, improve the signal-to-noise ratio, reduce power consumption, improve communication speed and quality, and in most cases do it at the lowest possible cost that fits the application. In this lecture we will briefly review the general concepts of biosensors signal properties, their measurement, and the common methods for their further handling. We will cover both conventional sensor sensing biology using physical and chemical methods and biology-based sensors, such as plan and microbe functional sensors.

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Short Biography of Presenting Author

Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, Head of the Scojen institute for synthetic biology at Reichmann university and Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University. D.Sc. EE 1983, M.Sc. EE 1980, and B.Sc. EE (Summa-cum Laude) 1978, all in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.  1983-post-doctorate at U.C. Berkeley, CA, USA. 1987- 1989 senior lecturer, the Technion, Israel. 1989-1996 assistant professor Cornell university, Ithaca NY, USA, 1997-2001 Associate professor and since 2001 a full professor at the school of electrical engineering, Physical Electronics department, Tel-Aviv University.  Yosi has been also a Visiting professor, at CNR-IMM, Rome, Italy, Visiting Professor, at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and a distinguished international chair professor, at Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, and the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, The Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.