The Research Team of Professor Taek Lee (Department of Chemical Engineering) Develops Monitoring System for Harmful Cyanobacteria (Pre-Treatment Kit, Sensor) that can be used on-site at the Han River

- Development of Electrochemical CRISPR Biosensor for Detecting Harmful Cyanobacteria that can be used immediately in Rivers and Lake Basins -

- Development of Gene-Editing-Based Detection Platform Suggests Potential Applications to Other Environmental DNA -

- Published in the Prestigious International Academic Journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics (IF: 12.5, JCR: 4.1%) -

The research team of Professor Taek Lee (Department of Chemical Engineering) has developed a field-ready  system for detecting the most widely spread harmful cyanobacteria, Microcystis aeruginosa (M. aeruginosa). This system includes a graphene oxide-based pretreatment  filter and an electrochemical clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) biosensing platform (Ga-Hyun Kim, first author).

The research was supported by the Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (2020003030001) through Aquatic Ecosystem Health Management Program of the Ministry of Environment (MOE), by the Industrial Core Technology Development Program (20009121) of the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy, and the National Research Foundation of Korea (2021R1C1C1005583). The research results were published under the title "Fabrication of graphene oxide-based pretreatment filter and Electrochemical-CRISPR biosensor for the field-ready cyanobacteria monitoring system" in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, a leading academic journal in the biosensor field (IF: 12.5, JCR: 4.1%). (Reference: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2023.115474)