Team:Bielefeld-Germany

From 2013.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
Line 74: Line 74:
<div class="mask">
<div class="mask">
<h2>Project</h2>
<h2>Project</h2>
-
<p>This year the iGEM team 2013 decided to do research on microbial fuel cells (MFC). This project includes genetical modification of ''Escherichia coli'' and engineering of a suitable fuel cell to gain electricity. </p>
+
<p align="justify">This year the iGEM team 2013 decided to do research on microbial fuel cells (MFC). This project includes genetical modification of ''Escherichia coli'' and engineering of a suitable fuel cell to gain electricity. </p>
<a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-Germany/Project/Abstract" class="info">Read more</a>
<a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-Germany/Project/Abstract" class="info">Read more</a>
</div>
</div>

Revision as of 14:07, 15 October 2013





Ecolectricity - currently available



Electric energy by genetically modified E. coli
in a self-designed and -constructed Microbial Fuel Cell




Project

Project

This year the iGEM team 2013 decided to do research on microbial fuel cells (MFC). This project includes genetical modification of ''Escherichia coli'' and engineering of a suitable fuel cell to gain electricity.

Read more

Team

Team

Our team consits of ten bachelor and master students who study molecular biotechnology and genome-based systems biology. Get to know us better.

Read more

Biosafety

Biosafety

Biosafety is an essential aspect when you work with living organisms in that could possibly escape out of your application via damage or incorrect handling. We designed biosafety systems which counter this risk.

Read more

Results

Results

Our aim was to produce electricity with our application, which we finally achieved successfully. On the way we got a lot of data, which we analyzed and formated into graphics. Take a look.

Read more

Human Practice

Human Practice

It is important to get out of the lab and tell the public about your project and about synthetic biology. Therefore we arranged events and visited conferences in order to get in touch with the public.

Read more

Lab journal

Labjournal

We wrote all the experiments we did into a labjournal. We digitalized the lab journal so that everyone can comprehend our experiments with reproducible results.

Read more

Achievements

Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png European Region Winner Overgraduate

Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Award for best presentation
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Design, construction and development of a MFC over three generations
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Design and construction of a biodegradable 3D-printed MFC
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Established measuring methods for the MFC and characterized biobricks with it
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Generated electricity with the MFC
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Construction of OprF expressing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Construction of glyceroldehydrogenase expressing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Construction of riboflavin expressing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Improvement of the Biobrick [http://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K914014?title=Part:BBa_K914014 BBa_K914014]
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Development and successful test of three Biosafety systems
Bielefeld-Germany2013 Box checked.png Helped another team