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iGEM York 2017

DIHM assited co-culture optimization


About our project

A colaboration of the sciences

Biology

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Hardware

Using optical diffraction to create and probe 3D images through holography in order to monitor co-cultures.

Software

Taking images using the hardware and turning this into a holograph, then analysing this image to optimise co-cultures

With the decreasing supply but increasing demand for fossil fuels, biofuels are a renewable alternative to help cope with our growing energy needs. We aim to develop and optimize a stable microbial co-culture system whereby the source of energy is light, and carbon flows from CO2 in the atmosphere to synthesize a biofuel. This simple synthetic microbial community will comprise Chlamydomonas, an algae, that will produce sugars through photosynthesis to feed the biofuel-producing E. coli, ideally resulting in a growth system that could reduce the cost of feedstock materials for biofuel production. However, their differing growth rates would likely result in an unstable system in which one organism might outgrow the other.

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Our Team

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Administation

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Dom wood

Biology

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Joe McKeown

Hardware