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Handbook of Cell Biosensors

Editors:

  • Explores all aspects of cell biosensors from a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach
  • Written by leading Cell Biosensor experts
  • Relevant for students and researchers in academia and industry

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Table of contents (39 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Fundamentals and Genetics for Cell Biosensors Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
    2. Engineering Autobioluminescent Eukaryotic Cells as Tools for Environmental and Biomedical Surveillance

      • Tingting Xu, Dan Close, Ghufran Ud Din, Gary Sayler, Steven Ripp
      Pages 57-70
    3. Biosensors of the Well-being of Cell Cultures

      • Karen Marie Polizzi
      Pages 71-88
    4. Riboswitches as Sensor Entities

      • Svetlana Harbaugh, Michael Goodson, Yaroslav Chushak, Jorge Chávez, Nancy Kelley-Loughnane
      Pages 111-140
    5. Integration of Sensor Cells into Hardware Platforms

      • Rajendra P. Shukla, Avia Lavon, Hadar Ben-Yoav
      Pages 141-162
    6. Whole-Cell-Based Fiber-Optic Biosensors

      • Boris Veltman, Evgeni Eltzov
      Pages 163-188
    7. Optical Approaches to Visualization of Cellular Activity

      • Mei-Yi Lu, Ji-Yen Cheng
      Pages 189-203
    8. Digital and Analogue Approaches to Whole-Cell Sensor Design

      • Luna Rizik, Litovco Phyana, Daniel Ramez
      Pages 205-221
    9. Engineering of Sensory Proteins with New Ligand-Binding Capacities

      • Diogo Tavares, Vitali Maffenbeier, Jan Roelof van der Meer
      Pages 223-242
    10. Cell-Free Biosensors: Synthetic Biology Without Borders

      • Aidan Tinafar, Yu Zhou, Fan Hong, Kirstie L. Swingle, Anli A. Tang, Alexander A. Green et al.
      Pages 243-281
    11. Engineering Prokaryote Synthetic Biology Biosensors

      • Xinyi Wan, Trevor Y. H. Ho, Baojun Wang
      Pages 283-318
    12. Cell-Free Synthetic Biology Biosensors

      • David K. Karig, Allison Reno, Lauren Elizabeth Franklin, Andrea C. Timm
      Pages 319-338
    13. Genetic Circuit Design Principles

      • Jing Wui Yeoh, Salvador Gomez-Carretero, Wai Kit David Chee, Ai Ying Teh, Chueh Loo Poh
      Pages 339-381
    14. Fundamental Building Blocks of Whole-Cell Biosensor Design

      • Ke Yan Wen, Jack W. Rutter, Chris P. Barnes, Linda Dekker
      Pages 383-405
    15. Mammalian Cell-Based Biosensors

      • Karl-Heinz Feller
      Pages 407-433

About this book

This handbook is an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference covering all aspects of cell biosensors. It is divided into four main sections which are led and organized by numerous international experts. The scope of coverage includes:

  • Fundamentals and genetics for biosensor applications
  • Transducers, Materials and Systems
  • Markets, innovation and education
  • Application of biosensors in business

      Biosensor research is an exciting hybrid world where biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers and computer engineers come together. This handbook will serve as an invaluable living resource for all researchers in academia and industry working with cell biosensors.  

      Editors and Affiliations

      • UMR CNRS 6144 GEPEA, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, La Roche sur Yon, France

        Gérald Thouand

      About the editor

      Gérald Thouand received his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Nancy, France, in 1993. He is tenured Professor in microbiology at the University of Nantes and Deputy for research innovation at the French Ministry of Research (DRRT Pays de La Loire) from 2008 to 2018 and now Expert for the County Pays de la Loire for innovation. In 2008 he was Auditor at the Institute of Higher Studies for Science and Technology (IHEST, Paris). His research interest includes environmental monitoring of biodegradation and biotechnology using microbial biosensors. He is mainly involved in the development of biosensors for chemical pollutants detection and pathogenic bacteria. He is President of the International Society for Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence, editor for Environmental Science and Pollution Research (ESPR, Springer), and editor for Sensors and was associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology

       

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