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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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*Please see our wiki on '''[http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2007 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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[[Image:IGEM_team.jpg|thumb|center|300px|The MIT iGEM 2007 team. 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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Mercury contamination of drinking water is a significant problem in both developped and developping 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.
Mercury contamination of drinking water is a significant problem in both developped and developping 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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[[Image:IGEM_team.jpg|thumb|500px|The MIT iGEM 2007 team. 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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Please see our wiki on [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2007 openwetware]
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The MIT iGEM team consists of six undergraduate students working fulltime during summer 2007 on engineering a biological system.  In addition, we have a number of graduate student and faculty advisors.
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===Students===
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*Jessica Ho
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*Bernice Huang
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*Alexander Lue
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*Semmie Kim
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*Aditya Kohli
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*Toan Tran-Phu
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Email us: '''team [AT] igem.mit.edu'''
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===Advisors===
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*Anton Aboukhalil
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*Robbie Barbero
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*Peter Carr
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*Brian Cook
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*Drew Endy
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*Rana Ghosh
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*Hyung-Do Kim
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*Tom Knight
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*Eric Krauland
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*Forrest Liau
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*Debbie Liu
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*Romie Littrell
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*Venkataramanan Soundararajan
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*Laure-Anne Ventouras
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Email grads: '''grads [AT] igem.mit.edu'''
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Revision as of 16:59, 9 August 2007

  • Team Detox presents Project E.coFilter
  • We are using surface display of polystyrene-binding proteins and heavy metal promoters to sense and remove Hg ions from contaminated water.
  • Please see our wiki on [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2007 openwetware] for our official website and more information!
  • https://giving.mit.edu/images/give_now.gif to the MIT 2007 iGEM team.

INFORMATION Information

The MIT iGEM 2007 team. 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

Project Description


Mercury contamination of drinking water is a significant problem in both developped and developping 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.




People People

The MIT iGEM team consists of six undergraduate students working fulltime during summer 2007 on engineering a biological system. In addition, we have a number of graduate student and faculty advisors.


Students

  • Jessica Ho
  • Bernice Huang
  • Alexander Lue
  • Semmie Kim
  • Aditya Kohli
  • Toan Tran-Phu

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

Advisors

  • Anton Aboukhalil
  • Robbie Barbero
  • Peter Carr
  • Brian Cook
  • Drew Endy
  • Rana Ghosh
  • Hyung-Do Kim
  • Tom Knight
  • Eric Krauland
  • Forrest Liau
  • Debbie Liu
  • Romie Littrell
  • Venkataramanan Soundararajan
  • Laure-Anne Ventouras

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



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