Basic Research in bioforensics and microscale manipulation with bacteria
Abstract
Covers the understanding of microbe adaptations, and micro-scale locomotion and controls for micro-bio-robots. The long term goal of this research is to improve the scientific understanding of how microbes adapt to an environment, enabling the ability to determine where microbes originated, how closely related they are, and their recent growth environment, which could ultimately reveal the identity and feasibility of bacterial signatures that could be used to trace the history of an organism to provide a means of tracking the cause, potential danger, and source of a biological event, whether naturally occurring or nefarious; and understand how micro-scale locomotion and manipulation is possible, with potential applications in bacteria propelled micro-structures for engineering of micro-manipulators and micro-robotics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 7fd7aa421536b16d30a4cf1e209fb650