Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 27, 2017, 1:11 p.m.
...Awardees: Xin Zhou and Fatima Enam. There were many excellent applicants but Xin and Fatima stood out for their...reliably detect HMOs.
Fatima’s first design is a whole cell biosensor with two components - an enzyme that breaks...proposes using this sensor to detect HMOs found on cellular surfaces. After incubating the sensor with bacteria...binding results in an increase in fluorescence of cells that actively produce the HMOs.
Fatima has demonstrated...out Fatima's recent publication on her HMO work in Cell Chemical Biology!
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