Plenary lecture 1: “Engineering biosystems: From artificial protein architectures to ultraminiaturized assays”

The involvement of nanotechnology in biology, biomedical devices, and analytical sciences provides tantalizing opportunities to miniaturize biosensing platforms for applications in diagnostics, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, pharmaceutical research, and research in life sciences at large. Key for realizing these opportunities is the accurate patterning of protein receptors on surfaces and the development of new bio-analytical methods.