Current Research

Photoproteins

Hybrid Biomaterials

Protein Engineering in Biosensors

Biomedical Devices and Individualized Medicine

Biosensors for Quorum Signaling Molecules:  Managing Crohn’s Disease

Spore-Based Biosensing Systems: A Stabilized Dormant-Active Approach to Whole-Cell Biosensors

Sensing Superfund Chemicals with Recombinant Systems

Current Funding

National Science Foundation-NIRT
Grant Title: NIRT: C-MEMS/C-NEMS for Miniature Biofuel Cells

National Science Foundation-IGERT
Grant Title: IGERT:  Engineered Molecular and Biological Materials

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 
Grant Title: Versatile Biosensing Platform for Monitoring Bone Markers for Space Medicine

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Grant Title : Sensing Superfund Chemicals with Recombinant Systems

U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USMRMC)
Grant Title: Tissue Repair and Regeneration Following Orthopedic and Craniofacial Trauma

National Institute of Hometown Security (NIHS)
Grant Title: Use of Natural Antimicrobials to Mitigate Biological Threat Agents in High Risk Foods

United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD)
Grant Title: A Whole-Cell Biosensor Panel for Agricultural Endocrine Disruptors

National Institutes of Health
Grant Title: Modified Photoproteins as Labels and Molecular Switches in Bioanalysis

National Science Foundation
Grant Title 1: Spore-Based Biosensing Systems: A Stabilized Dormant-Active Approach to Whole-Cell Biosensors

Grant Title 2: Collaborative Research: Extended Life Implantable Biosensor Platform