[BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday June 5th - 1 pm - Room 333

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all,

Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar  is this coming wednesday

Wednesday - June 5th,  at 1 pm

Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775  University Street).

Speaker: Dr Régis Méjard PhD, Ian Wark Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

Title: Long Range Surface Plasmon Sensing for Cellular Studies

Abstract:
The label-free nature, real-time capabilities and high sensitivity of surface plasmon resonance
(SPR)-based sensing technologies have motivated their application to the detection and study of
microorganisms such as mammalian cells and bacteria. More recently, long range plasmonic
sensing structures have been successfully applied to such biological entities. Compared with
conventional surface plasmons (SPs), long range SPs are characterized by extended
electromagnetic field profiles (500–1000 nm penetration depths into aqueous media compared to
less than 200 nm for cSPR) and lower losses, making them of high interest for biosensing for
biological entities with dimensions greater than field typically associated to SPs. Their structureactivity
relationship towards the sensing of large biological entities such as cells remains
however unclear. This presentation will provide a semi-empirical framework describing the
signal variations associated to the presence of cells on the sensor surfaces. Conventional and
long range SPR sensors are being compared towards the development of SPR-based sensing
approaches suitable for the detection and study of bacteria and cells (e.g. cell-based assays).


A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars

See you there


Christophe Grova




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Christophe Grova, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Dpt
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt

Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm)
Montreal Neurological Institute
Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques

Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University
3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca
tel : (514) 398 2516
fax : (514) 398 7461

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