Mikkelsen Group Research Projects

For details on these projects, please click on the links.  To apply for admission to the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry and Biochemistry, please contact Andrea Wetmore.

Current and Continuing Graduate Student Projects

  • DNA Biosensors for Clinical Diagnostics

  • Electrochemical Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibilities in Microorganisms

  • Lectin-Based Biosensor Array for Bacterial Identification and Quantitation

  • Chemometric Analysis of Voltammetric Data for Bacterial Identification

  • Screen-Printed Electrode Arrays for High-Throughput Assays

  • Quantitative Atomic Force Microscopy of Biochemical Binding Reactions

  • Examples of Past Graduate Student Projects

  • Chemometric Analysis of Square Wave Voltammograms for Beverage Identification

  • Electrodeposition of Gold and Platinum on Carbon Screen-Printed Electrodes

  • Synthetic Redox Enzymes Based on Ferrocene-Cyclodextrin Conjugates

  • Ferrocene-Modified Polyacrylamide Redox Gels for Amperometric Biosensors

  • Identification and Quantitation of Chiral Beta-Blocking Drug Metabolites

  • Sequence-Selective DNA Assays Based on Optically-Detected DNA Intercalants