Project 4212
                    
          Rapid Detection of Cyanobacterial By-Products in Drinking Water
$170,136
      
                Principal Investigator
                                            Peter Vikesland
                          Research Principal
                                            Grace Jang, PhD
                          Contractor
              Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
          Abstract
This project optimized a rapid and simple method to concentrate and detect cyanobacterial by-products such as microcystin-LR (MC-LR) and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) in drinking water. The project focused on Raman based methods for detection and differentiation of MC-LR and its variants. Published in 2012.