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*Please see our '''[http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2007 wiki]''' on OpenWetWare for our official website and more information!
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*[https://giving.mit.edu/givenow/AddGift.dyn?desig=2738692 https://giving.mit.edu/images/give_now.gif] to the MIT 2007 iGEM team.
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'''Team Detox''' presents '''Project E.coFilter''' 
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We are using surface display of polystyrene-binding proteins and heavy metal promoters to sense and remove Hg ions from contaminated water.
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===External links===
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*[http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/iGEM iGEM on OpenWetWare]
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*[http://partsregistry.org Parts registry]
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*Our Parts:
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**[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I728005 OmpC Surface Display]
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**[http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_I728004 CPX Surface Display]
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===For visitors===
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*Read more about [[Synthetic Biology|engineering biology]].
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*[[../2006|2006 MIT iGEM wiki]]
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*[[Synthetic_Biology:Polka_Dots|Polka Dots]]: The MIT IAP class, a precursor to iGEM
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===Internal links===
 
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Mercury contamination of drinking water is a significant problem in both developed and developing countries. Techniques to filter it out are both costly and intensive. Thus, the MIT iGEM 2007 team is engineering a biological mechanism to cost-effectively sense and remove Mercury ions from contaminated water through a two cell system. One cell will use the Mer promoter to sense the presence of Mercury ions, then activate the GFP fused downstream. The other uses a cell surface display mechanism to exhibit a Mercury capturing peptide, extracting the Mercury from the water. Both cells also display polystyrene binding peptides, and will thus be attached to a polystyrene filter. This setup would be easy to use, cheap to manufacture, and economical to distribute. It could be used from very small scales to even an entire village's drinking water supply.
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=== Want to join the team? ===
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*'''Graduate''' students interested in advising the team should email '''grads [AT] igem.mit.edu'''
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*'''Undergraduate''' students will have to wait until 2008!
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===Schedule===
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*April 8 - Application deadline (5pm on Sunday)
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[[Image:MITGoal.jpg|300px|center|MIT's goal]]
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[[Image:IGEM_team.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Top Row: Forrest Liau, Aditya Kohli, Brian Cook, Alex Lue, Semmie Kim, Bernice Huang, Jess Ho.  Bottom Row: Debbie Liu, Laure-Anne Ventouras, Toan Tran-Phu]]
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*November 3-4 - iGEM competition Jamboree, MIT, USA
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====Students====
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Jessho Jessica Ho]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Bernice Bernice Huang]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Awlue Alexander Lue]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Skim Semmie Kim]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Akohli Aditya Kohli]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Toan Toan Tran-Phu]
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===Meeting Logistics===
 
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===Last year's MIT iGEM contact info===
 
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Anton1 Anton Aboukhalil]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Ghoshd Rana Ghosh]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Hyungdo Hyung-Do Kim]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Tom_Knight Tom Knight]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Krauland Eric Krauland]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Forrest_Liau Forrest Liau]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Debbie_Liu Debbie Liu]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Ryrolitt Romie Littrell]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Venkataramanan Venkataramanan Soundararajan]
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*[http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Lventouras Laure-Anne Ventouras]
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Revision as of 05:21, 26 October 2007

  • Please see our wiki on OpenWetWare for our official website and more information!
  • https://giving.mit.edu/images/give_now.gif to the MIT 2007 iGEM team.
  • There are days left until the Jamboree!


Contents

Information

Mercury contamination of drinking water is a significant problem in both developed and developing countries. Techniques to filter it out are both costly and intensive. Thus, the MIT iGEM 2007 team is engineering a biological mechanism to cost-effectively sense and remove Mercury ions from contaminated water through a two cell system. One cell will use the Mer promoter to sense the presence of Mercury ions, then activate the GFP fused downstream. The other uses a cell surface display mechanism to exhibit a Mercury capturing peptide, extracting the Mercury from the water. Both cells also display polystyrene binding peptides, and will thus be attached to a polystyrene filter. This setup would be easy to use, cheap to manufacture, and economical to distribute. It could be used from very small scales to even an entire village's drinking water supply.


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MIT's goal
Top Row: Forrest Liau, Aditya Kohli, Brian Cook, Alex Lue, Semmie Kim, Bernice Huang, Jess Ho. Bottom Row: Debbie Liu, Laure-Anne Ventouras, Toan Tran-Phu

People People


Students

Email us: team [AT] igem.mit.edu



====Advisors====


Email grads: grads [AT] igem.mit.edu Email all: igem [AT] igem.mit.edu

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