MOBILES meets one of its sister’ projects AquaBioSens. Three MOBILES partners (NTUA, CTU and RICPA) participated as guests at AquaBioSens annual project meeting. A MOBILES representative joined AquaBioSens teams on 26th and 27th May at the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) in Crete (Greece).
The two-day conference featured comprehensive progress reports from all AquaBioSens partners. The coordinator of MOBILES (Dr. Angelo Ferraro, NTUA) presented an overview of the project, followed by speeches form CTU and RICPA.
At the AquaBioSens meeting Dr. Lukasz Gontar (RICPA) discussed the importance of propaedeutic risk assessment for genetically modified organisms (GMO) that are intended for use as biosensors and consequently released into the environment. Prof. Constantinos Varotsis (CTU) presented the laser-based technologies that will be used to construct a diatom-based biosensor for the detection of micro- and nanoplastic pollution in seawater.
During the two-day meeting, MOBILES and AquaBioSens found several opportunities for collaboration and expertise exchange. The most relevant are:
- a collaborative interaction to utilize the pre-concertation device developed by AquaBioSens and
- the sharing of RNA extraction methods, also developed by AquaBioSens.
The AquaBioSens partners were interested in the electrochemical devices developed by MOBILES.
A second topic of discussion was focused on the preparation of policy recommendation reports on the use of biosensors.
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