Team:Bielefeld-Germany

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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.

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Team

Team

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

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Biosafety

Biosafety

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

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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 formatted into graphics. Take a look.

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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.

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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 and achieve reproducible results.

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Pictures & Videos

Pictures & Videos

During the work on our project we took a lot of nice pictures and recorded some videos inside and outside the lab. See a collection of our favorites on our media page.

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Modelling

Modelling

To predict various processes in our MFC we did some modelling on different reactions and parameters.

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Since Regionals

Since Regionals

After the European Jamboree we were busy and continued working on our project to optimize it further and conduct the last measurements.

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Achievements

Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.pngEuropean Grand Prize Winner Overgraduate (Official results)

Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Award for best presentation (Official results)
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Design, construction and development of a MFC over three generations
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Design and construction of a biodegradable 3D-printed MFC
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Established measuring methods for the MFC and characterized biobricks with it
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Electricity generation with the MFC
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Construction of OprF expressing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Construction of glycerol dehydrogenase expressing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Construction of riboflavin producing Biobricks
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Improvement of the Biobrick [http://parts.igem.org/Part:BBa_K914014?title=Part:BBa_K914014 BBa_K914014]
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Development and successful verification of three novel Biosafety-Systems
Bielefeld-Germany-Box checked orange.png Helped another team