Biosensors for the Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring at Global Scale and the EU Level

   • Marinella Farré, Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz, Miren López de Alda, Damià Barceló, Peter-Diedrich Hansen

   Pages 1-32

3. Achievements of the RIANA and AWACSS EU Projects: Immunosensors for the Determination of Pesticides, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals

   • Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz, Miren López de Alda, Damià Barceló

   Pages 33-46

4. Biosensors for Pharmaceuticals and Emerging Contaminants Based on Novel Micro and Nanotechnology Approaches

   • Javier Adrián, Fátima Fernández, Alejandro Muriano, Raquel Obregon, Javier Ramón-Azcon, Nuria Tort et al.

   Pages 47-68

5. Recombinant Yeast Assays and Gene Expression Assays for the Analysis of Endocrine Disruption

   • Benjamin Piña, Susanna Boronat, Marta Casado, Alba Olivares

   Pages 69-113

6. Biosensors for Aquatic Toxicology Evaluation

   • Marinella Farré, Damià Barceló

   Pages 115-160

7. Genetically Engineered Bacteria for Genotoxicity Assessment

   • Alva Biran, Pedahzur Rami, Sebastian Buchinger, Reifferscheid Georg, Shimshon Belkin

   Pages 161-186

8. Adverse Effects in Aquatic Ecosystems: Genotoxicity as a Priority Measurement

   • Tamara Grummt, Petra Rettberg, Petra Waldmann, Jürgen Zipperle, Peter-Diedrich Hansen

   Pages 187-201

9. Genotoxicity in the Environment (Eco-Genotoxicity)

   • P. D. Hansen, E. Wittekindt, J. Sherry, E. Unruh, H. Dizer, H. Tüg et al.

   Pages 203-226

10. Liquid Chromatography—Mass Spectrometry Methods for Analysis of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Wastewaters

    • Cristina Postigo, Marina Kuster, Marta Villagrasa, Sara Rodríguez-Mozaz, Rikke Brix, Marinel la Farré et al.

    Pages 227-271

11. Back Matter

    Pages 273-278

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sector. This ensured eventual transfer of the technology demonstrated at the wo- shops and Technical Meetings to marketable devices. BIOSET provided assistance for researchers from European laboratories to meet to exchange ideas, use equ- ment, and establish a basis for new joint projects. The secretariat of the Concerted Action BIOSET supported the Technical Meetings. There were three Technical Meetings held, two in Berlin in 1997 and 1998, and the third in Barcelona, in April 2000. The goal of these technical meetings was to join different research and industrial teams to evaluate the performance of their biosensor technology in field conditions with common and standardized surface and waste waters. As a result of these field experiments, the additional information that biosensors can offer to environmental monitoring was also evaluated. Thus, these three Technical Meetings were useful accompanying measures and practical additions to the currently organized yearly workshops. The concerted action BIOSET was f- lowed by the SENSPOL network. The 1st SENSPOL Workshop was held on the 9–11 May 2001 on Sensing Technologies for Contaminated Sites and Groundwater at the University of Alcala. There was one special Workshop on “Genotoxicity Biosensing (TECHNOTOX)” supported by the European Commission DG XII D-1 and BIOSET in the year 2000. The TECHNOTOX meeting at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) in Mol was organized by Phillippe Corbisier (VITO), Peter-D. Hansen (TU Berlin) and Damia Barcelo (CSIC Barcelona).

• Biosensor
• bacteria
• contaminants
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• pesticide
• toxicity
• toxicology
• water quality and water pollution
• water industry and water technology

From the reviews: “The book provides a good and fairly complete overview of the biosensors that are used in bioanalytical and chemical methods … with many references provided. The book serves as an excellent compendium of the achievements of the field of new measurement devices … . Biosensors for the Environmental Monitoring of Aquatic Systems is a carefully written work that provides exact definitions … and results achieved by research groups around the world. … will be an invaluable source of information for active researchers in this field.” (Boguslaw Buszewski, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, November, 2009)

• Department of Ecotoxicology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Berlin, Gemany

  Peter-Diedrich Hansen

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