SENSing PESTicides On Labelled Surfaces – Sens-PestOLS

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a main source of toxic exposure for the population worldwide. To protect populations, fast/sensitive/handy/cheap detection tools for such chemicals is a real need for in situ assessment of POPs environmental pollution by regular monitoring of food/water resources. Even beyond, such tool would pave the way for a better understanding of the environmental fate of POPs and for better effectiveness of remediation methods applied in the field. Here, we ambition to set up a new smart biosensing technology to binary classify polluted samples by POPs level and their degradation products: POPs-containing analytes will systematically interface a specifically designed organic-electrochemical transistor (OECT) micro-array, labelled with large series of synthetic biological probes. Multivariate data analysis techniques will be used for POP-level identification, necessary to deeper machine learning analysis such as neural network algorithms.