Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT140101285]Researchers: Vipul Bansal (Future Fellowship )
Brief description Exploiting bacterial metal resistance machinery for metal ion nano-biosensors development. This project aims to integrate advanced materials chemistry, molecular biology, bio-electrochemical and synchrotron imaging approaches to understand the role of silver resistance machinery of bacteria in their ability to form silver nanoparticles. This aims to enable discovery of new metal-specific reductase enzymes. The fundamental biomolecular understanding of bacterial silver resistance will allow the use of a silver-binding protein to develop a series of next-generation nano-biosensors. These biosensing platforms will provide high-throughput, cost-effective, selective, sensitive and continuous monitoring of heavy metal ions in effluents from mining and mineral processing industries in a real-time fashion.
Funding Amount $886,019
Funding Scheme ARC Future Fellowships
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT140101285
- ARC : FT140101285