Monitoring environmental pollutants using engineered chemotactic bacterial strains

Project Information

GILLOR OSNAT

Grant agreement ID: QLK4-CT-2002-51494

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2003

End date 31 December 2004

Funded under

• Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Total cost € 114 972,00

EU contribution € 114 972,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Objective

Chemo taxis allows bacteria to sense minor changes in their environment and respond by swimming towards optimum conditions for growth. We plan to clone the chemoreceptors from bacterial species growing in polluted environments and express them in well-characterized bacterial strains to create highly sensitive detectors of environmental contaminants.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology › bacteriology

Programme(s)

• FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Topic(s)

• 1.1.1.-4. - Key action Environment and Health

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: SOUTH PARKS ROAD ; OX1 3QU OXFORD ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data