Sensors Webinar | Thermal Biosensing Methods, 22 October 2025
A message from the Webinar Chair:
If you are working on biosensors, you will already be familiar with a variety of established transducers using, for example, optical, electronic, electrochemical and microgravimetric techniques. In this webinar, we will introduce the principle of thermal biosensors, produced, for example, using the heat-transfer method (HTM), which employs temperature gradients and thermal currents to probe biomolecular interactions. In principle, this concept is rather simple: you will require a heat source and two thermometers, and you are ready to detect, for example, bacteria, virus particles or mutations in DNA. Of course, this does not work without bioreceptors, but when a suitable receptor is included, the HTM becomes sensitive to an incredibly broad range of biotargets. There are also receptor-free HTM applications, such as monitoring cell proliferation and evaluating the efficacy of antimicrobials at the cell-culture level.
We are grateful to MDPI for organizing this webinar. Special thanks to today’s three speakers, who not only pioneered the basic HTM principle but also continue to advance it toward real-life applications in medical diagnostics, food safety and environmental monitoring.
I wish you all a pleasant and fruitful webinar.
Best regards,
Patrick Wagner, KU Leuven
Date: 22 October 2025 at 3:00 p.m. CEST | 9:00 a.m. EDT
Webinar ID: 854 7887 2355
Website: https://sciforum.net/event/Sensors-27?subscribe
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Program:
| Speaker/Presentation | Time in CEST | Time in EDT |
| Patrick Wagner (Chair) Thermal Biosensors—From Calorimeters to HTM and its Variants |
3:00–3:10 p.m. | 9:00–9:10 a.m. |
| Bart van Grinsven DNA and Spaghetti: Finding Nice Things in Funny Data |
3:10–3:30 p.m. | 9:10–9:30 a.m. |
| Marloes Peeters Can a Smart Thermometer Detect Heart Attacks? |
3:30–3:50 p.m. | 9:30–9:50 a.m. |
| Ronald Thoelen Thermal Sensing Technologies for Advanced Biomedical and Microfluidic Applications |
3:50–4:10 p.m. | 9:50–10:10 a.m. |
| Q&A Session | 4:10–4:25 p.m. | 10:10–10:25 a.m. |
| Patrick Wagner Closing of Webinar |
4:25–4:30 p.m. | 10:25–10:30 a.m. |
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Webinar Chair and Speakers:
- Prof. Dr. Patrick Wagner, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Soft-Matter Physics and Biophysics Section, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan, Leuven, Belgium;
- Dr. Bart van Grinsven, Sensor Engineering Department, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands;
- Prof. Dr. Marloes Peeters, Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, School of Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;
- Prof. Dr. Ronald Thoelen, Institute for Materials Research (IMO), Hasselt University, Limburg, Belgium.
Relevant Special Issue:
“Feature Papers in Biosensors Section 2025”
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Alexander Star, Prof. Dr. Spyridon Kintzios and Prof. Dr. Patrick Wagner
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact sensors@mdpi.com.
Sensors Webinar Secretariat