Course Catalog 2009-2010 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Jukka Lekkala

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Periods 3 3 - 4	International Students

Requirements

Passed exercises and examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

Introduces basic principles and techniques used in biosensors. Gives information on applications.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	History of biosensor development, applications and requirements of biosensors.	Definition of concentrations, sampling principles
2.	Principles of molecular recognition, structure of enzyme and antibody, immunosensors, modeling of reactions, immobilization techniques.	Immune response, bacteria and viruses, self-assembled membranes	Molecular modeling, Langmuir-Blodgett -thin film technology
3.	Detection methods, electrodes, ISFET, optical sensors, Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor, piezoelectric resonators and thermal sensors.	Principles of electrochemistry, operation principles of optical fibre sensors, modeling of SPR sensor.
4.	Miniaturization, biocompatibility, microanalyzers and BioMEMS structures.	Biomaterials, Micro ElectroMechanical systems (MEMS)
5.	Examples of commercial biosensors.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Credit points earned from the examination and bonus from exercises specify the mark for the course.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Biomolecular sensors	Gizeli and Lowe	0-7484-0791-X				English
Book	Engineering Biosensors - Kinetics and Design Applications	Ajit Sadana	0-12-613763-3				English
Lecture slides	Biosensors	Jukka Lekkala					English

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
Chemistry and biochemistry studies help understanding the biological part of biosensors.

Correspondence of content

Additional information

Will be lectured in parallel with the course MIT-4070.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Introduces basic principles and techniques used in biosensors. Gives information on applications.	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	09.03.2009
Modifier	Jukka Lekkala