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Analytical Tools and Methods: Session I - Field-ready Biosensors to Assess Bioavailability and Toxicity (Apr 17, 2017)
This webinar series highlights innovative analytical tools and methods developed and used by Superfund Research Program (SRP) grantees. The presenters will feature the benefits of these new tools and methods compared to conventional methods. They also will include information about how the technology has helped to facilitate ongoing SRP research. In the first session, researchers will describe their tools to assess bioavailability/toxicity for more effective human and/or environmental monitoring. Treatment assessments and water quality monitoring that rely only on measuring the reduction of target contaminant concentrations are often insufficient because they do not consider the complex and broader risks that specific contaminants or mixtures and their transformation products pose to the environment and human health. Michael Unger, Ph.D., Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, will discuss his work on advances in biosensor technology that allows near real-time measurement of contaminants at sub parts-per-billion (ppb) concentrations in small volume (April Gu, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, will discuss her work to develop a novel, feasible, and cost-effective quantitative toxicogenomics-based toxicity assessment platform for high-throughput and effective chemical hazardous identification and environmental toxicity monitoring. Gu also will describe how she and her team systematically optimized the assay platform, evaluated its robustness and performance, validated the assay output, and demonstrated its wide applications. Natalia Vasylieva, Ph.D., and Bogdan Barnych, Ph.D., postdoctoral researchers at the University of California, Davis, will discuss how they choose target analytes for immunoassay analysis. They also will introduce nanobodies as novel and exciting reagents for immunoassay-based biosensors. The second part of the presentation will focus on examples of immunoassay application for human and environmental monitoring, as well as their application in biosensors. To view this archive online or download the slides associated with this seminar, please visit https://clu-in.org/conf/tio/SRPAnalyticalT&M1_041717/