From the contents:<br />Part I Photometry, Color Sensors and Fluorescence Labels <br />Colour sensors and their applications<br />(Poenar Daniel Puiu)<br />Addressing of concentration spaces for bioscreenings by micro segmented flow with microphotometric and microfluorimetric detection<br />(J. Michael Köhler, Anette Funfak, Jialan Cao, Dana Kürsten, Steffen Schneider and P. Mike Günther)<br />Nanotechnology for diagnostic and sensing: soft and advanced imaging/sensing approaches to analyze biomolecules.<br />(A. Aloisi and Ross Rinaldi) <br />Part II Optical Waveguides<br />Integrated Optical Microsystems for Interferometric Analytics<br />(G.G. Bentini and Chiarini)<br />Label-free photonic chips for biosensing<br />(Raphael K. Kribich)<br />Part III Surface Plasmon Resonance<br />Surface Plasmon Resonance Bioanalytical platform to appraise the interaction between antimicrobial peptides and lipid membranes<br />(Mihaela Gheorghiu, Sorin David, Andreea Olaru, Cristina Polonschii, Eugen Gheorghiu)<br />Biological applications of Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging.<br />(L. Leroy, E. Maillart, T. Livache)<br />Part IV Raman Spectroscopy<br />Lab-on-a-Chip Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (LOC-SERS)<br />(A. März, P. Rösch, T. Henkel, D. Malsch, J. Popp)<br />Microfluidic Raman spectroscopy for biochemical<br />sensing and analysis<br />(Praveen C. Ashok and Kishan Dholakia)<br />Part V Optical Characterization and Manipulation in Bioreactors<br />Polymeric microfluidic devices for high performance optical imaging and detection methods in bioanalytics<br />(Holger Becker, Claudia Gärtner)Chip Systems for analysis of nucleic acids with integrated amplification and detection <br />(Sandra Julich, Mark Kielpinski, Matthias Urban, Thomas Henkel, Marko Riedel, Sabine Werres, Stefan Wagner, Robert Möller, Wolfgang Fritzsche)<br />Optofluidic microsystems for application in biotechnology and life sciences<br />(S. Sinzinger, B. P. Cahill, J. Metze, M. Hoffmann)