The monitoring of contaminants in the marine environment still presents a number of challenges to overcome, e.g. large dilutions of pollutants which appear at very low, but biologically significant concentrations. The use of miniaturized biosensors can offer several advantages, such as high sensitivity, specificity, and ability to work on site and in a wide range of matrices. The outcome of the FLAshMoB project will be the development of small, portable, easy to use, and robust biosensing platforms to monitor marine contaminants. Different biosensors will be developed, based on chimera proteins endowed with both the adhesive properties of a self-assembling amyloid moiety and the recognition ability of specific proteins, suitable for monitoring contaminants relevant for the marine environment. Indeed amyloid fibrils can efficiently play the role of connecting bridge between organic and inorganic surfaces. By genetic fusion to these self-assembling proteins, the sensing proteins can be stably anchored onto a surface with a precise orientation. Biosensors based on amyloid-proteins show an enhancement of sensitivity with respect to other reported systems. Specific proteins will be genetically fused to a fungal amyloid protein: (i) laccase, an oxidative enzyme useful for sensing aromatic pollutants -Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals; (ii) arsenate reductase, an extremophilic enzyme to be used for specific arsenic detection; (iii) antibodies against marine toxins from algae, such as saxitoxin and domoic acid; (iv) Glutathione S-transferase (GST), a multifunctional protein useful for the detection of the total heavy metals content. Other strengths of the proposed project are the exploitation of nanomaterials to improve the efficiency of the systems and the development of both Lab-On-a-Chip and portable devices.