MDPI’s Journal Cluster of Instruments and Instrumentation Webinar | Next-Generation Smart Biosensors for Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring, 12 December 2025

Instruments and instrumentation is an important research field that encompasses the application of instruments for the observation, measurement, or control of physical and/or chemical systems.

These applications are widely used in various fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, food, the environment, energy, aerospace, transportation, consumer electronics, and the IoT, among others.

Date: 12 December 2025 at 2:00 p.m. CET | 8:00 a.m. EST
Webinar ID: 852 9438 2663

Program:

Speaker/Presentation	Time in CET
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Velotta Chair Introduction	2:00–2:15 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Larysa Baraban Real Time Clinical Diagnostics for the Patients using Microfluidics	2:15–2:40 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Seokheun Choi Self-Powered and Smart Biosensing Systems Enabled by Electrogenic Bacteria	2:40–3:05 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Velotta UV-Driven Photochemical Immobilization of Antibodies for Robust Gold Nanoparticle Colorimetric Sensors	3:05–3:30 p.m.
Dr. Qasem Ramadan Integrated Sensing in Organ-on-a-Chip Systems: Innovations in On-Chip and Off-Chip Strategies	3:30–3:55 p.m.
Q&A Session	3:55–4:10 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Raffaele Velotta Closing of Webinar	4:10–4:15 p.m.

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Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Raffaele Velotta, Department of Physics Ettore Pancini, University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Seokheun Choi, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA;
Prof. Dr. Larysa Baraban, ¹ Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; ² Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany; ³ Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Faculty of Medicine, Technical University of Dresden, 01037 Dresden, Germany;
Dr. Qasem Ramadan, College of Science and General Studies, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Relevant Special Issues:

Sensors
“Advanced BioMEMS and Their Applications”
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Seokheun Cho
Deadline for manuscript submissions 20 December 2025

Micromachines
“Current and Emerging Microfabrication Techniques for Lab-on-a-Chip and Biomedical Microdevices: From Photolithography to 3D Printing”
Guest Editor: Dr. Qasem Ramada
Submission deadline 31 July 2026

“Micro/Nano-Enabled Sensors and Systems for Environmental Monitoring: Innovation and Applications”
Guest Editor: Dr. Lijuan Liang
Submission deadline 28 February 2026

Instruments
“Applied Metrology and Instrumentation for Emerging Technologies”
Guest Editors: Dr. Milena Martarelli, Dr. Sabatina Criscuolo and Dr. Valentina Bello
Submission deadline 28 February 2026

Relevant Paper:

AI Sensors
“A Review of Non-Invasive Continuous Blood Pressure Measurement: From Flexible Sensing to Intelligent Modeling”
by Zhan Shen, Jian Li, Hao Hu, Chentao Du, Xiaorong Ding, Tingrui Pan and Xinge Yu
AI Sens. 2025, 1(2), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/aisens1020008