The event gathered students, researchers, and faculty members in biomedicine, engineering, and biology fields.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of fiber optic sensors using an interdisciplinary approach that covers the fabrication of sensing devices and optical hardware, the functionalization to perform selective biorecognition, and the main applications of biosensors, with a present and a future outlook.
The book was published by a renowned academic publisher – Academic Press/Elsevier. It is available on the NU library website.
Authors of the book are an Associate Professor at NU, Head of Biosensors and Bioinstruments Laboratory at National Laboratory Astana Daniele Tosi; a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Baylor University, USA, Marzhan Sypabekova; a Research Fellow at National Laboratory Astana Aliya Bekmurzayeva, an Assistant Professor at NU, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences Carlo Molardi; a Postdoctoral Scholar at NU, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences Kanat Dukenbayev.
NU Provost Ilesanmi Adesida and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Loretta O’Donnel made an opening speech pointing out the importance of having a multidisciplinary team of authors when writing a book like this. Speakers gave a presentation on optical fiber biosensors covering technologies and operating principles and addressing the main applications of fiber-optic biosensors. The presentation continued with a session of questions and answers. It was then followed by a lab tour to show real optical fiber sensors, and equipment used to fabricate and interrogate the sensors to produce optical fiber biosensors in the laboratory setting at NU.
