Team:Dundee/HumanPractice/Collaboration

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           <p>Many open waters located in and around Dundee are affected by Blue-Green Algae. This was one motivation that made selecting our ToxiMop project appropriate because we are tackling a local problem that also has worldwide implications.</p><br>
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           <p>A focus of our work over the summer was to utilise our strengths to aid members of the iGEM community. We achieved this by providing help to as many iGEM teams as possible.<br><br>
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        <p> One particular location in Dundee where Blue-Green Algae has had a dramatic effect is Clatto Country Park. In the past the park has had up to 95,000 visitors per year with recreational activities such as watersports, children’s play areas and picnic sites being the main attractions focussed around the parks freshwater reservoir and surrounding woods.</p><br>
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This help largely consisted of the provision of bacterial strains which the respective teams required in order to realise their project. To ensure a safe transport of any samples, we had our lab mascot Jessie (Giraffe) bless the containers before they were sent off!<br>
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          <p>Moving forward in time, with the Blue-Green Algae problems faced by the park each year, recreational swimming is no longer permitted in the reservoir. This has shutdown the watersports programme at Clatto and the signage to warn people of the danger faced by the water has had such a dramatic effect to reduce the number of visitors per year to less than 30,000. This reduction in visitors has led to the closure of staffing facilities. The aim of ToxiMop project is to restore open waters like Clatto back to their former glory.</p><br>
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          <p>We have been working with George Potts, Senior Countryside Ranger, who has been involved at Clatto for 40 years. We want to raise awareness that the testing procedures at Clatto are insufficient to demand the closure recreational activities on the reservoir. This is strongly linked to the development of our MopTopus electronic sensing device, which can be used as a more appropriate measure of the toxin levels in the water. </p><br>
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          <p>Currently sampling is carried out once a month, and when a dangerous level of toxin is detected three clean tests are required to give the all clear to the reservoir. Therefore during the summer after microcystin is detected the reservoir is closed for 3 months minimum. MopTopus will allow daily samples and updates to be taken. </p><br>
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          <p>Dundee City Councils guidelines enforced for the dangerous levels of toxins for recreational sports are as advised by the WHO for safe drinking water, whereas in other locations around the world different practices are used. We want to work with Ancrum Outdoor Activity Centre, Dundee City Council and SEPA to raise awareness on the safety of the water and how using synthetic biology our MopTopus device has the potential to return locations like Clatto back to popular venues for future generations. </p><br>
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<p>Provision of the PP1-encoding gene in pSB1C3 for using in their Physco filter project.<p>
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<p>A Dundonian soil sample was sent off to test for antimycin-producing streptomycetes!<p>
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<p>An <i>envZ</i> deletion strain of <i>E. coli</i> was sent over for testing purposes, Project Colour by <i>E. coli</i></p><br>
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<strong>Westminster</strong>
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<p>We sent <i>Serratia marcescens</i> bacterial strains that secrete chitinases, together with some plasmids for overexpressing chitinases – Project Hit Bug</p>
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<strong>Zhejiang University, China</strong>
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<p>We are currently in the process of adapting our visualisation tool to describe their protein scaffold in their bacterial ghost</p><br>
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Latest revision as of 18:21, 28 October 2013

iGEM Dundee 2013 · ToxiMop

Dundee 2013

Collaborations

A focus of our work over the summer was to utilise our strengths to aid members of the iGEM community. We achieved this by providing help to as many iGEM teams as possible.

This help largely consisted of the provision of bacterial strains which the respective teams required in order to realise their project. To ensure a safe transport of any samples, we had our lab mascot Jessie (Giraffe) bless the containers before they were sent off!



Munich

Provision of the PP1-encoding gene in pSB1C3 for using in their Physco filter project.


To find out more about their project : Visit the Munich Wiki
Norwich

A Dundonian soil sample was sent off to test for antimycin-producing streptomycetes!


To find out more about their project : Visit the Norwich Wiki
Exeter

An envZ deletion strain of E. coli was sent over for testing purposes, Project Colour by E. coli



To find out more about their project : Visit the Exeter Wiki
Westminster

We sent Serratia marcescens bacterial strains that secrete chitinases, together with some plasmids for overexpressing chitinases – Project Hit Bug


To find out more about their project : Visit the Westminster Wiki
Zhejiang University, China

We are currently in the process of adapting our visualisation tool to describe their protein scaffold in their bacterial ghost



To find out more about their project : Visit the ZJU-China Wiki

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