This grant opportunity focuses on creating and using a metagenomic process to find new biosensors that can detect water contaminants important to the Department of Defense (DoD). These biosensors can then be enhanced or adapted to allow for on-site detection of these contaminants in the field.

Develop and employ a metagenomic pipeline to discover novel biosensors for water contaminants of DoD concern. Biosensors can be further engineered or evolved to enable in-field sensing of these contaminants.