Team:DTU-Denmark

From 2013.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
(→Requiem for a Stream:From Ammonia Pollution to Energy Production via Denitrification)
 
(39 intermediate revisions not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/StartPage|}}
{{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/StartPage|}}
<div class="overviewPage">
<div class="overviewPage">
-
== Requiem for a Stream:<br>From Ammonia Pollution to Energy Production via Denitrification ==
+
<div class="overviewBox">
 +
<html>
 +
      </div>
 +
      <!-- Slider -->
 +
<table border="0" style="background-color:transparent">
 +
<tr>
 +
<td style="width: 181px">
 +
      <div class="prev" style="position:relative"></div>
 +
</td>
 +
<td><div class="scrollable">
 +
        <div class="items">
 +
          <div>
 +
              <img width="600px" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/6/69/Dtu_1_vid.jpg"></img>
 +
          </div>
 +
          <div>
 +
              <img width="600px" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/dd/Dtu_2_vid.jpg"></img>
 +
            </div>
 +
          <div>
 +
              <img width="600px" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/8/8e/Dtu-Vid-05.png"></img>
 +
          </div>
 +
          <div>
 +
              <img width="600px" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/0/0b/Dtu-Vid-06.png"></img>
 +
          </div>
 +
          <div>
 +
              <img width="600px" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/6/6b/Dtu_4_vid.jpg"></img>
 +
          </div>
 +
        </div>
 +
      </div>
 +
</td>
 +
<td style="width: 181px">
 +
    <div class="next"></div>
 +
</td>
 +
</tr>
-
Intense agriculture is the base of feeding a growing world population. However it comes at a cost for the environment. Part of this is the growing problem of ammonia pollution. As the demand for food articles is steadily increasing farmers turn to extensive use of fertilizers and nitrogen-enriched animal feeds to increase their yield. Much of this nitrogen comes in the form of ammonia and accumulates in the argicultural runoff, which pollutes surface bodies of water like lakes and streams but also the groundwater.
 
-
Our project is a requiem for those streams. Our goal is to remove surplus ammonia from wastewater, and via two ''E. coli'' mutants turn it into nitrous oxide.
 
 +
<tr>
 +
<td colspan=3 style="text-align:center">
 +
<table style="width:100%">
 +
<td style="width:50%">
 +
</td>
 +
<td>
 +
  <div class="navi"></div>
 +
</td>
 +
<td style="width:50%">
 +
</td>
 +
</table>
 +
</td>
 +
</tr>
-
[[File:Dtu overview.png|400px|center]]
 
-
Ammonia is a common pollutant in agricultural runoff, and excess ammonia in the environment leads to increased algae growth and eutrophication, which starves other water-borne organisms for oxygen. Our project reverses nitrogen fixation, and is a means to clean up polluted streams and wastewater.  The final product is nitrous oxide, which can be sold as an industrial product or reclaimed and used as a source of small scale sustainable energy.
+
</table>
 +
   
 +
</html>
-
For more information on the mutants, please see [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Project| project details]], and for information on the experiments we did to characterize the mutants, see [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Experiments|an overview of the experiments]] we conducted.  Also be sure to check out our [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Notebook| online lab notebook]], and the [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Human_Practices | human practices events]] that we hosted.
+
<div class="la" style="margin: 20px">
-
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
+
==Highlights==
-
</div>
+
 +
* We successfully [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Experiment4|characterized ammonia consumption of our AMO transformant (Mutant 1)]].
 +
* We constructed and characterized a [[Team:DTU-Denmark/pBAD_SPL|synthetic promoter library]] built on the arabinose inducible promoter.
 +
* We successfully [[Team:DTU-Denmark/HelloWorld|targeted proteins to the periplasm]] in our Hello World pilot project.
 +
* We [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Modeling|modeled]] several aspects of the project including [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Kinetic_Model|the kinetics of the system]] and [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Reactor_Model|the size of reactor]] required.
 +
* We conducted several events around [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Human_Practices|human practices]], including a [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Biobrick_Workshop|biobrick workshop]] and a [[Team:DTU-Denmark/IP_and_Synthetic_Biology|discussion on IP and synthetic biology]].
 +
For more information on our project, please see [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Project| our project details]].  Also be sure to check out our [[Team:DTU-Denmark/Notebook| online lab notebook]].
 +
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="clear"></div>
 +
</div>
{{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/EndPage}}
{{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/EndPage}}
<!-- {{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/Footer1}} -->
<!-- {{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/Footer1}} -->
<!-- {{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/Footer}} -->
<!-- {{:Team:DTU-Denmark/Templates/Footer}} -->

Latest revision as of 20:58, 4 October 2013

Highlights

For more information on our project, please see our project details. Also be sure to check out our online lab notebook.

Retrieved from "http://2013.igem.org/Team:DTU-Denmark"