Bionanotechnology, Sensing and Optical Imaging
This course addresses to the students who attend the Inter-departmental Program of Postgraduate Studies “Microsystems and Nanodevices” This course is co-organised by the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. The course includes the following topics:
Basic concepts of interactions between light and biological macromolecules and cells
- Cells
- DNA
- Proteins
- Interactions between light and molecules
- Spectroscopy of biological macromolecules
- Fluorescence spectroscopy of biological macromolecules
- Non-linear optical properties of biological macromolecules
- Light – cells interactions
- Diffusion theory
- Transport theory
Optical NanoBioImaging
- Fluorescence microscopic imaging
- Non-linear optical imaging
- Spectral imaging
- Optical tomography
- Fluorescent probes –fluorophores
- Confocal microscopy
- Structural and Functional Cellular imaging
Optical Biosensors
- Principles of optical biosensing
- Bioirecognition, fluorescent biosensors
- Fiber-optic biosensors
- Interferometric biosensors
- Surface Plasmon Resonance biosensors
- Evanescent wave biosensors
- Single molecule optical detection
Introduction to Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Systems biology
Microarrays technology in genomics and proteomics
- DNA microarrays technology
- Protein microarrays technology
- trascriptomics
- Optical diagnostics
- Biosensing in nanomedicine
Nanobiophotonics
- Quantum dots for bioimaging
- Nanoparticles for bioimaging
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Dido Yova, Dr. Eleni Alexandratou