The FNS financed Sinergia project SAMS: Sensor Assay Microbe Systems, is a collaboration between the Lab of Microsystems of Prof. Philippe Renaud (EPFL), the group of Prof. Martial Geiser at the HES-SO in Sion, Valais, and ourselves. The project will run for three years and started in April 2009.
The objective of the SAMS Sinergia project is to construct a hand-held miniaturized electronic microfluidic device that holds bioreporter bacteria responsive to arsenic. The microfluidics design is performed by the group of Philippe Renaud; the electronic system will be build in the group of Martial Geiser, whereas the construction, use and calibration of the arsenic bioreporter bacteria is taking place in our group.
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Watch bacterial cells fill in a microcage. Video: Nina Buffi (EPFL) and Davide Merulla.
Listen to the radio interview (in French on RSR-La 1ère -l'émission Impatience) with Martial Geiser (HES-SO) and Jan van der Meer on the Sinergia project and the miniaturization of bacterial bioreporter assays for arsenic.
