Engineered Bioprobes for the Identification of Chemical-Toxicological Hazards in Foods

This PhD thesis research project is aimed at the achievement of engineered bioprobes as rapid, effective and in situ operating devices for study and identification of chemical-toxicological hazards in liquid food matrices. For this purpose two bioprobes will be developed: i) yeast cell amperometric bioprobe for studying of mitochondrial effect of milk contaminated bioactive substances (e.g. bisphenol A); ii) optical bioprobe with transgenic microbial cells as biomediators for semi or quantitative detection of veterinary antibiotic residues in milk samples.