ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT140101285

Funded Activity Summary

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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2014

End Date: 31-12-2020

Funding Scheme: ARC Future Fellowships

Funding Amount: $886,019.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Environmental Biotechnology | Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors) | Bioinorganic Chemistry | Nanobiotechnology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Other Keywords

Bioinorganic Chemistry | Environmental Biotechnology | Environmental Biotechnology Diagnostics (incl. Biosensors) | Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Nanobiotechnology

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