Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100973

Funded Activity Summary

Engineering electrochemical protein biosensors. This project plans to develop novel, sensitive, inexpensive and flexible electric biosensors to monitor potentially any molecule. It plans to use synthetic biology principles to develop a new class of artificial protein receptors that generate electric current upon encountering a molecular target. Using expertise in in vitro protein synthesis, the project plans to integrate biosensor design and electrode prototyping to achieve rapid development of low-cost broadly applicable sensory electrodes. To increase the sensitivity of the resulting sensing systems, the electrochemical receptors will be integrated with signal amplification cascades based on artificial autoinhibited proteases. The project aims to address the need for new technologies that enable collection of biological information outside of the laboratory environment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 30-06-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $650,300.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Enzymes | Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Synthetic Biology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Animal Production and Animal Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Preventive Medicine | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Animal Production and Animal Primary Products not elsewhere classified | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified | Enzymes | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Preventive Medicine | Synthetic Biology

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