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Dr. alocilja Awarded Nano Grant
This article originally appeared in the August 2005 Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station newsletter
Evangelyn “Vangie” Alocilja, MAES scientist in the Department of Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering, has been awarded a $160,000 grant for exploratory research as part of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NNI is a federal research and development program that coordinates the multiagency efforts in nanoscale science, engineering and technology.
Alocilja is working on a polymer carbon nanotube-based biosensor to detect threats to the U.S. water supply, livestock industries and food supply chains. She hopes her biosensors, roughly the dimensions of a small stick of chewing gum, might eventually enable real-time field-based diagnosis of pathogenic contamination. Even with the best current technology, today it takes up to one week to confirm the existence of biohazardous agents – a category that includes everything from Salmonella to anthrax.
Alocilja’s nano-collaborators are MAES researcher Amar K. Mohanty in the School of Packaging and Vladimir Tarabara, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
More information on the NNI is available at www.nano.gov/. Alocilja’s work is featured in the spring 2004 issue of Futures, the MAES research magazine.
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