Departments of Applied Physics / Biomedical Engineering

Molecular Biosensing

The MBx group develops technologies based on micro- and nanoparticles for monitoring patients and for treating diseases. Towards this goal, the unique approach of MBx is to use advanced optical imaging techniques that quantify molecular processes with single molecule resolution within complex biomacromolecular environments.

Quantify molecular processes with single molecule resolution

The MBx group creates concepts in the field of molecular biosensing with diagnostic and therapeutic healthcare perspectives. Combining nanotechnology, molecular engineering and single molecule imaging technologies we aim to measure with ultimate sensitivity biomolecules implicated in a variety of diseases, such as cancer, immunology, and cardiology.

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The research group Molecular Biosensing for Medical Diagnostics provides courses and projects in the bachelor's and master's programs of the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physics. Furthermore, we offer a broad range of projects for students to work on in the research group.

PhD Theses

(Defence 7 November 2023)

Laura van Smeden

Continuous monitoring of health markers: A study on BPM immunoassays and microdialysis

(Defence 13 December 2023)

Max Bergkamp

Real-time analysis of particle motion for continuous biosensing with single-molecule resolution

(Defence 22 March 2023)

Emmanouil Archontakis

Quantification of Nanomaterials with Spectrally-Resolved Super-Resolution Microscopy

(Defence 10 march 2023)

Roger Riera Brillas

PAINTing receptors: a quantitative single-molecule view on cell membrane receptors

(Defence 16 september 2022)

Laura Woythe

Molecular Mapping of Nanoparticle Targeting: A Super-Resolved Journey

(Defence 22 februari 2022)

Yu-Ting Lin

Biofunctionalization strategies for continuous monitoring biosensors

(Defence 14 januari 2022)

Rafiq Lubken

Continuous biomolecular sensing with single-molecule resolution: Explorations of bioanalytical functionalities

(Defence 15 december 2020)

Michael Beuwer

Correlative microscopic characterization of nanoscale assemblies at interfaces

(Defence 19 June 2020)

Yuyang Wang

A plasmonic nanotorch: pushing plasmon-enhanced fluorescence for applications in single-molecule enzymology

(Defence 30 September 2020)

Matěj Horácek

A plasmon ruler to probe conformational transitions of single molecules in real-time

(Defence 12 June 2020)

Max Scheepers

Inter-particle biomolecular reactivity: how aggregation rates and selectivity are influenced by charge, surface crowders and multivalent interactions

(Defence: 23 January 2020)

Natalia Feiner Gracia

Reaching the tumour: nanoscopy study of nanoparticles in the biological environment

(Defence: 19 December 2019)

Christian Moerland

Torque on magnetic particles for biomedical applications

(Defence: 7 November 2016)

Fabiola Azucena Gutierrez Mejia

Proteins with a Twist: Torsion Profiling of Proteins at the Single Molecule Level

(Defence: 31 October 2018)

Roland van Vliembergen

Optical Scattering of Rotating Dimers for Biosensing Applications

Video on Plasmonic Biosensing using Metal Nanoparticles

Metal nanoparticles provide the possibility to detect single molecules without the need for labeling, enabling the direct detection of non-absorbing species [1]. A molecule that binds to receptors on the surface of a particle induces a change in the local refractive index that in turn results in a change of color due to a shift of the plasmon resonance [2,3]. This animation illustrates the real-time detection of plasmon shifts induced by molecules binding to functionalized single gold nanorods. The plasmon shifts are measured by monitoring scattering intensities of many particles simultaneously and in real-time [4].

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