Fifth Workshop on Biosensors and Biological Techniques in Environmental Analysis

      Second Technical Session: Continued
      Antibody, Receptor, and Nucleic Acid Based Biosensors
      Saturday, June 1, 2002

      Nucleic acid biosensors for the detection of biological threat agents   -Invited lecture
      Andrew Ellington
      University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

      Novel array biosensors for screening endocrine disrupting
      O. Sadik*, M. Ngudi*, S. Suye**, H. Okada**
      *Dept. of Chemistry, SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, USA
      **Dept. of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan

      Saxiphilin: a candidate protein for a biosensor for paralytic shellfish poisons
      C. Robillot, J. Doyle, L. Llewellyn
      Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

      Biosensor for femtomolar level detection of cholera and botulinum toxin using
      nano-vesicles and ganglioside receptors
      Richard A. Durst and Soohyoun Ahn
      Dept. of Food Science and Technology, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA

      Modification of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle by application of
      streptavidin to the biotin-coupled transmembrane protein
      Howard H. Weetall* and David Shelton**
      *Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV, USA
      **Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

      Biomolecule engineering by directed molecular evolution
      SunAi Raillard
      Maxygen, Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA