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Project

Microbial Chip to Capture, Analyse and Steer communities (MICCAS)

The general objective of the proposal is to exploit the full potential of combining modern microelectronics and micro-fabrication techniques with microbiological functionality. Marrying these interdisciplinary aspects will allow to construct a new class of chips that will facilitate novel and radically different approaches in microbial ecology. The MICCAS project will create a unique setting to develop a multifunctional tool that will allow us detection, identification and manipulation of microbial populations. The objective from the electrical engineering point of view is – for the first time- to combine the full power of CMOS circuit with microfabrication techniques for microbacterial manipulation and analysis. From a microbiological point of view, the MICCAS chip will allow obtain unique bacterial fingerprints resulting from the Raman scattering or electrical  impedance spectroscopy. This can eventually lead to the development of cheap online microbial monitoring tools. Furthermore, the capturing and release properties of this unique MICCAS microchip will also allow us to create synthetic microbial communities that will be used to answer ecological questions in the field of microbial domestication.

Date:1 Jan 2019 →  31 Dec 2022
Keywords:Sensors and biosensors
Disciplines:Nanoelectronics, Micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems