Planning Visit: U.S.- Irish R&D Partnership

Oise 08-27236劳里·康奈尔缅因州大学该项目为计划访问英国贝尔法斯特的S女王大学和爱尔兰都柏林的都柏林城市大学提供支持。美国首席调查员是缅因州大学的劳里·康奈尔。外国合作者是贝尔法斯特的克里斯·埃利奥特和都柏林的理查德·奥肯尼迪。这次规划访问的主要目的是制定一份完整的提案，并提交给美国国家科学基金会S生物技术、生化和生物质工程项目。该建议将通过实施纳米生物技术和生物传感器开发来解决BBBE？S研究食品安全的优先领域。研究目标是开发新技术，以提供快速和便携的分析。在过去的几年里，在传感器技术、生物技术和纳米技术的一些领域取得了重大进展。这些方法的结合可能导致便携式技术的发展，能够对主要关切的食品污染物进行快速和可靠的分析。参与这项工作的研究人员在毒素分析、生物传感器技术和蛋白质工程领域拥有相当多的专业知识。通过结合这些专业知识，他们希望为食品供应链中选定的毒素的基于传感器的测量提供工作原型。

OISE 08-27236Laurie ConnellUniversity of MaineThis project provides support for a planning visit to Queen?s University in Belfast, UK and Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. The US principal investigator is Laurie Connell from the University of Maine. The foreign collaborators are Chris Elliott in Belfast and Richard O?Kennedy in Dublin.The primary purpose of this planning visit is to develop a full proposal that will be submitted to NSF?s Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering Program (BBBE). The proposal will address BBBE?s research priority area of food safety through implementation of nano-biotechnology and biosensor development. The research goal is to develop new technologies to deliver rapid and portable analysis. Over the past several years, there has been substantial progress in a number of areas of sensor technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The combination of these approaches could lead to the development of portable technologies capable of producing rapid and reliable analyses for food contaminants of major concern. The researchers involved in this effort have considerable expertise in the areas of toxin analysis, biosensor technology, and protein engineering. By combining this expertise, they expect to deliver working prototypes for the sensor based measurement of selected toxins in the food supply chain.