Fifth Workshop on Biosensors and Biological Techniques in Environmental Analysis

      Third Technical Session:
      Antibody, Receptor, and Nucleic Acid Based Biosensors
      Monday, June 3, 2002

      Practical achievements and implementation of biosensors and other assays for
      water monitoring development within the EU environment program   -Invited lecture
      Damia Barcelo
      Department of Environmental Chemistry IIQAB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

      New approaches to environmental bio-analysis   -Invited lecture
      Bertold Hock
      Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Center of Life Sciences Weihenstephan,
      Dept. of Plant Sciences, Freising, Germany

      Development of enzyme immunoassays for surfactants
      J. Zeravik*, S. Eremin**, M. Franek**
      *Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
      **Dept. of Enzymology, Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

      Development of non-labeled immunosensors via OWLS detection
      A. Szekacs*, N. Trummer**, N. Adanyi**, M. Varadi**, I. Szendro***
      *Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
      **Central Food Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary
      ***MicroVacuum Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

      Piezoelectric biosensors for detection of toxic compounds
      J. Halamek*, J. Pribyl*, P. Skladal*, M. Hepel**, A. Makower***, F.W. Scheller***
      *Dept. of Biochemistry, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
      **Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY-Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA
      ***Dept. of Analytical Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Physiology
            and Biochemistry, University of Potsdam, Golm, Germany

      Improved optical methods for pesticide immunoassay   -Invited lecture
      J. Feng*, G. Shan***, S. Gee**, Z. Rong**, A. Maquieira****, I. Kennedy*, B. Hammock**
      *Dept. of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UC-Davis, Davis, CA, USA
      **Dept. of Entomology, UC-Davis, Davis, CA, USA
      ***Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN, USA
      ****Dept. de Quimica, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

      Portable electrochemical immunosensors for pesticide detection
      B.B. Dzantiev
      Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Acad. Sci., 119071 Moscow, Russia

      Rapid selection of anti-hapten antibodies from phage display libraries
      G. Strachan*, J. McElhiney**, M. Drever**, L.A. Lawton***, A.J.R. Porter*
      *Haptogen Ltd., Aberdeen, UK
      **Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
      ***School of Applied Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK

      Immunosensor based on electrochemical detection of enzyme label
      Plamen Atanassov
      Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Dept., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA