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

laurie connell缅因大学这个项目为计划访问Queen？英国贝尔法斯特的s大学和爱尔兰都柏林的都柏林城市大学。美国首席研究员是来自缅因大学的劳里·康奈尔。外国合作者是贝尔法斯特的克里斯·艾略特和理查德·奥？肯尼迪在都柏林。这次计划访问的主要目的是制定一份将提交给NSF的完整提案。生物技术，生化和生物质工程专业（BBBE）。该提案将解决BBBE？通过实施纳米生物技术和生物传感器的发展，美国的食品安全研究优先领域。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许多领域都取得了实质性的进展。这些方法的结合可能导致便携式技术的发展，能够对主要关注的食品污染物进行快速可靠的分析。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，他们希望为基于传感器的食品供应链中选定毒素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.