KEY CONFERENCES/workshop/seminars/symposia organized at      

BITS Pilani –KK Birla Goa Campus

1.    One Day Conclave on “CATALYZING STARTUP ECOSYSTEM THROUGH ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS” held at BITS Pilani Goa Campus Aug. 18, 2018 (Co-ordinator)

2.      Indo-Norway “The First Symposium Sustainable technologies for food processing and preservation” jointly organized by BITS Pilani, IIT Kharagpur and SINTEF Ocean Norway.  Feb 8 & 9 2018 at BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus (Co-Coordinator)

3.      Member core organizing committee and convener (Exhibition Committee) of the 5^th National Metallurgists’ Day (Under the aegis of Ministry of Steel, Government of India) and 71^st Annual Technical Meeting NMD-ATM 2017 of  the Indian Institute of Metals held at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus Nov 11-14 2017.

4.      Joint “INDO-UK INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND THEIR          APPLICATIONS IN      NANOTECHNOLOGY” during May 17-19th 2014 Venue: BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus (Program Chair: Prof. P.A. Millner, Prof. NN Ghosh, Convener: Prof Sunil Bhand.     

5.      Organized International Conference on “Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano 2013” (ETMN-2013) Organized jointly by BITS, Pilani and CEERI, Pilani at KK Birla Goa Campus India Feb 23 and 24, 2013 (Program Co-Chair : Prof Sunil Bhand BITS Goa, Prof NN Sharma  BITS Pilani and Dr Jamil Akhtar, CEERI PIlani). Received sponsorship from CSIR N Delhi. Published book of abstracts and CD.     

http://emtm2n.bits-pilani.ac.in

6.      Organized “The 8th workshop on biosensors and bioanalytical micro-techniques in environmental and clinical analysis” Oct. 3-6, 2007 at BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus, organized in collaboration with IAEAC, Switzerland. Funded by IAEAC Switzerland: EURO 5000. Prof TC Goel, Dr Roberto Pilloton and Dr Sunil Bhand (Co-Chairman) and Dr NN Ghosh (Convenor). Published abstract book.     http://www.bits-goa.ac.in/biosensorworkshop07/organisers.htm

7.      Organized joint Indo-Swedish Workshop “Biosensors for environmental analysis” Feb. 21-23, 2006, at BITS, Pilani-Goa Campus funded  by The Swedish Research Council, in collaboration with Lund University Sweden as part of Indo-Swedish Project (PI: Prof Bengt Danielsson & Dr. Sunil Bhand). Funding received from The Swedish Research Council EURO 5500. Dr Sunil Bhand (Convener) and Dr NN Ghosh (Organizing Secretary). Published Abstract book and CD.

http://www.bits-goa.ac.in/iwb06/Organisers.htm 

1.     Sunil Bhand and Krishna K. Swain : A Dual Read Out Magnetic Nano Particle based Enzyme Assay for Sensitive Detection of Hg(II) Ions in Drinking Water. Oral Presentation at PITTCON 2019 Conference and Exp.  held during March 17-21, 2019, Pennsylvania Convention Center  Philadelphia, PA, USA, Session 430 - Water Quality Measurements.

2.     Sunil Bhand and Aruna Chandra Singh : Label Free Impedimetric Sensing of Bisphenol-A Using Flexible Gold Micro Interdigitaed Electrode. Oral Presentation at PITTCON 2019 Conference and Exp.  held during March 17-21, 2019, Pennsylvania Convention Center  Philadelphia, PA, USA, Session 430 - Water Quality Measurements. Session 1200 - Sensors for Environmental and Security Applications

3.     Sunil Bhand and Atul Sharma “Molecularly imprinted polymer decorated nanoparticles for selective determination of Tetracycline in milk” oral presentation at 12^th Workshop on Biosensors and Bioanalytical Microtechniques in Environmental and Clinical Analysis, International Biosensor Conference organized by National Research Council Rome at Rome, ITALY 25-29 Sept. 2017. Chaired a session during the conference.

4.     Aruna Chandra Singh and Sunil Bhand “Flow injection electrochemical quartz crystal nano-balance based immunosensing platform for detection of 17β-estradiol in water” oral presentation at 12^th Workshop on Biosensors and Bioanalytical Microtechniques in Environmental and Clinical Analysis, International Biosensor Conference organized by National Research Council Rome at Rome, ITALY 25-29 Sept. 2017.

5.     Geetesh K. Mishra , Atul Sharma, Sunil Bhand  “Ultrasensitive detection of streptomycin using Flow injection analysis-Electrochemical quartz crystal nanobalance (FIA-EQCN) biosensor”  24^th Anniversary World Congress on on Biosensors, May 27-30, 2014 Melbourne AUSTRALIA.(organised by Elsevier UK)

6.     P.P. Naik, Geetesh K. Mishra, Dengt Danielsson and Sunil Bhand “ Android Integrated urea biosensor for public health awareness” 24^th Anniversary World Congress on on Biosensors, May 27-30, 2014 Melbourne AUSTRALIA (organized by Elsevier UK)

7.     Sunil Bhand and Bengt Danielsson, Enzyme thermistor based discriminative determination of pesticide residues, 22^nd World Congress on Biosensors, 15-18 May 2012, Cancun, Mexico (organized by Elsevier UK).

8.     Rupesh K Mishra, Gustavo A. Alonso, Georges Istamboulie, Roberto. Muñoz, Sunil Bhand, Jean-Louis Marty, Automated Flow based biosensor for determination and discrimination of pesticide mixtures using genetically modified enzyme 22^nd World Congress on Biosensors, 15-18 May 2012,Cancun, Mexico (organized by Elsevier UK).

9.     G Bacher and S Bhand, Novel impedimetric biosensor for analysis of aflatoxin M1. proc. of 2^nd biosensing technology conference (Elsevier) Amsterdam Oct 11-13 2011 Netherlands.

10. S. Pal and S. Bhand, functionalized nanoparticle based assay for analysis of aflatoxin M1, Second International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials  6-10 March 2011,Strasbourg, France (Elsevier).

11. M. Kumar, S Pal, S Bhand and R Chatterjee. Multifunctional zinc oxide nanorods as choline biosensor, Second International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials  6-10 March 2011, Strasbourg, France (Elsevier)

12. R.K. Mishra and S Bhand, High sensitivity enzymatic assay for pesticide residue analysis in milk, Proc. of the  World Congress on Biosensors, Glasgow,UK May 26-28, 2010. (Elsevier).

13. S. Bhand and S Chandra, novel biochip based biosensor for pesticide residue analysis. Proc. Of 1^stBiosensing technology confrence (Elsevier) 10-12 November 2009, Bristol UK (Elsevier UK).

14. S. Bhand: Miniaturised immunoassay for pesticide residue analysis, 7^th Workshop on Workshop on biosensors and bioanalytical micro-techniques in environmental analysis Kusadasi, Turkey Sept 2006.

15. 8^th International conference on Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements April 4-7 2005, CSIRO Australia. Symposium ‘Arsenic Chemistry and Biology’.

16. IUPAC International Workshop on Crop Protection Chemistry in Latin America –Harmonized approaches for environmental  assessment and regulation, Feb. 14-17 2005, San Hose Costa Rica. 

17. S Bahnd et al. Immuno Arrays for Multianalyte analysis of chlorotriazines. 8^th World congress on Biosensors, May24-26, 2004 Granada Spain.

18. XII International conference on ‘Heavy metals in the Environment’ May 26-31 2003, Organized by CNRS and University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France

19. 7^th International conference on ‘Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements’ June 14-19 2003, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.

20. Workshop on ‘Reactive barriers vs. pump and treat ground water remediation techniques’, sponsored by European Science Foundation and organised by Federal Institute of Materials Research, Berlin, October 18 & 19, 2001 Germany.

21. X ^th   International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, Sep. 18-22, 1995, University of Hamburg, Germany.  

22. 15^th International symposium on chlorinated dioxins and related compounds DIOXIN' 95, Organized by Alberta Environmental Protection, Aug 21-25, 1995, Edmonton Alberta, Canada.

23. Geetesh K. Mishra , Gautam Bacher ,Utpal Roy and Sunil Bhand “Impedemetric immunosensor for bacterial detection” INDO- UK INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY (AMAN 2014) Organized by BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus(May  17- 19, 2014)   2nd prize in poster presentation (GKM Ph.D. student).

24. B. Behera, S. Pal, L. Kanungo, S. Bhand and S. Chandra* “Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO-ZnAl₂O₄ Whiskers and Their Application in Biosensors” INDO- UK INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPONADVANCED MATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY (AMAN 2014) Organized byBITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus(May  17- 19, 2014). (Joint work with IIT Delhi).

25. Lizy Kanungo, Gautam Bacher Souvik Pal and Sunil Bhand* Ultrasensitive micro-biosensors for analysis of aflatoxins . Proceedings of International Conference “Emerging Technologies: Micro to Nano” organized jointly by CSIR CEERI Pilani and BITS Pilani during Feb. 23 & 24 2013 at BITS Pilani-KK Birla Goa Campus.

26.  Geetesh K Mishra and Sunil Bhand*. FIA-EQCN biosensor for analysis of sulphadiazine residues in milk. Presented at 6th IEEE International Conference on Sensing Technology, Special focus on sensors for agriculture and environmenal monitoring ICST 2012, Dec. 18-21, 2012 Kolkata, India.

27.  G. Bacher, L Kanungo and S. Bhand, Miniaturized label-free impedimetric immunosensor for analysis of Aflatoxin B1 in peanut. Presented at 6th IEEE International conference on sensing technology, Special focus on sensors for agriculture and environmental monitoring ICST 2012, Dec. 18-21, 2012 Kolkata India.

28.  Sunil Bhand, Biosensors for monitoring water at the 4th ICPC NANONET workshop organized by JNCASR, Bangalore at Goa, April 3&4 2012 (Spon. by European Union).

29. Sunil Bhand “Micro and nano biosensors – applications in environmental analysis” at the Theme meeting; Micro and Nanotechnology in Service of Rural India, organized by Precision Engineering Group, BARC Mumbai, I24&25 Feb 2012.

30. Sunil Bhand, BioMEMS for environmental analysis, (Key note lecture) First Indo-German frontiers of engineering symposium organized by Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) foundation ,Germany, & DST India, Chennai Nov 2009.

31. S. Bhand and B Danielsson. Multianalyte biosensors for environmental monitoring of pesticides. Proc. of the 8th IAEAC Workshop on biosensors and bioanalytical micro-techniques in environmental and clinical analysis Oct 3-6, 2007 BITS-Goa.

32. Bhand S. and Danielsson B. (2006) Biosensor for Environmental Analysis of Organophosphate compounds. Proc. Of Indo-Swedish International workshop on Biosensors for environmental analysis, BITS Goa Feb. 21-13, 2006.

33. Bhand S., Thiyagrajan M, Oslakovic C, Danielsson B. (2006) High Throughput Immunoassays for Pesticide Analysis in Real Samples. Proc. of Indo-Swedish International workshop on Biosensors for environmental analysis, BITS Goa Feb. 21-13, 2006, India.