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ENERGY STORED IN CELLULOSE • LIGHT-SENSING DORMANCY SYSTEM • OPTIMIZED NANOWIRES The PowerLeaf introduces a novel solution for long-term storage of solar energy, thus becoming an alternative to solar cells. This is accomplished without the use of environmentally harmful resources. The device is designed to resemble a plant leaf, which is meant to provide a nature-in-city ambience. This hypothetical implementation of the PowerLeaf in an urban environment, was developed through public engagement and collaboration. Functionality on the Wiki Hi there, I’m the creator of this wiki, and I welcome you to our webpage. This year I decided to make it a one-page wiki - make it stand out from the crowd. As you scroll through the wiki, I will gently guide you through our iGEM experience. You will always be able to follow along on the navigation bar, which carefully tells you where you are, as you scroll. Whenever you want, you can click through the tabs to see the content of the individual sections of the page. If you know where you want to go, you can click the links within the tabs, and they will get you there immediately.
A Green Wiki Our project is all about ensuring a greener future for ourselves as well as the coming generations. This of course meant that we had to get a green wiki. Luckily CO2NeutralWebsite wanted to fulfill our wish by sponsoring a CO2 quota equal to the amount of CO2 produced, by having our website running until 31-Oct-2018. This doesn’t mean our website specifically doesn’t pollute CO2. Receiving an official quota means that other companies won’t be able to buy our CO2 quota, thus, forcing them to improve their environmental policy to decrease the amount of CO2 polluted.
Introduction Welcome to our wiki! We are the IGEM team from the University of Southern Denmark. We have been waiting with great anticipation, for the chance to introduce you to our project and to tell you our story. It all began with a meeting between a group of strangers, each with their own disciplinary origin. Despite our differences, we had one thing in common; a shared interest in synthetic biology. We were soon herded off to a weekend in a cottage - far away from our regular lives. It was a place to bond, and to discuss project ideas. It immediately became apparent, that being an interdisciplinary team, was going to be our strength. Each member had unique qualities, that enabled them to efficiently tackle different aspects of the iGEM competition. So we made it our goal to take advantage of these qualities.
Bronze Requirements 4/4 Register and attend - bla bla bla Silver Requirements 3/3 Validated part/contribution - bla bla bla Gold Requirements 4/4 Integrated Human Practices - bla bla bla A Global Problem Our planet is currently facing a human caused energy crisis, due to increased demands for limited resources. This demand has caused severe damage to the ecosystem (see analysis by Bøgh), the consequences of which could be catastrophic. To prevent this, balance must be restored (needs to explain balance).
In a Local Environment We are a team of young adults, raised to be aware of climate changes and the potential limitations to the continuation of our way of life. However, we are also a generation of open source and shared information. A generation, that has been encouraged to constantly challenge the ideas of our peers. With this in mind, we decided the best solution to the future energy crisis, would be to seek out experts, the general public, even kids, in order to rethink the current notion; where the only way to save our planet, is to reduce our standard of living.
Inspiration Our early ideas were reviewed after attending the Danish Science Festival, where we met several young minds with very creative ideas. The kids would come to our booth with their parents to learn about bacteria, GMO, ethics and iGEM. After which, they would attend our “Draw-a-bacteria”-competition. While drawing their own unique bacteria, they would present us with detailed stories about their design.
Our Solution this section needs a really great illustration about the system
It will then be up to prospective iGEM teams to finish our vision, and take the PowerLeaf all the way. We would love to see our project become a reality one day, and have therefore created a special page for future iGEM teams. This page includes suggestions for further development of our/the project.
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lets gooo lets goo lets gooo lets goo lets gooo lets goo Prospects How is a product able to affect the future? What is the goal of the product? What are the most plausible obstacles on the road to reaching this common goal? And could this be used to optimize and even rethink the original idea? These are questions we will be covering in the perspectives section of the prospects category. We will then be listing short and to the point, the things we did achieve and the next steps on the road to a fully functional PowerLeaf, in order to make a nice overview for future iGEM teams. Furthermore, we present those teams that do not wish to continue the development of the PowerLeaf with some of that we liked the most from our idea generation. Hopefully this can sparkle some creative thoughts for new and interesting projects.
lets gooo Building a Product for a Better Future
How will our product affect the future? First and foremost, it will be able to provide an even greener alternative to already sustainable energy sources like solar. It will do so, by building complex technological energy solution, using the most common resource on our planet. This will contribute to a future without a critical shortage in natural resources like silica for technological devices. Not only will programming of biological systems like the PowerLeaf be complex, it will be self-replicating for easy expansion and integration into an urban environment.
Genetic Code Expansions for Biological Engineering Expanding beyond those technologies used today in Synthetic Biology, many research groups are working on genetic code expansion. We had an interesting talk with post.doc Julius Fredens, working at the Jason Chin Lab, about his work on genetic code expansion. Once this technology is fully working, it could completely revolutionize biological engineering, including that of the PowerLeaf. Genetic code expansion could potentially be used for optimization of all the biological systems used in the PowerLeaf; optimization of nanowires, improvement of the light-sensing system and making the breakdown of cellulose inducible.
Hi future iGEM’er and welcome to the section where you are the center of attention. First, congratulation on starting your iGEM journey, you are going to have a wonderful summer with lots of amazing experiences and new friendships. In this section, there will be two main topics, improvement and further development of our project, the PowerLeaf, and some of our project ideas generated in the startup phase to use for your project or start your creative thinking. Furthermore, we will sprinkle the section with a few tips and tricks that we learned from our iGEM experience. So what worked? Nothing. Nothing worked. And that’s the first lesson you should remember when you start your own iGEM journey, be prepared that most things that you plan in the lab will probably go wrong at some point. Just kidding of course, a few things did work, and the things that didn’t work, we will tell you about as well, so you can learn from that as well.
Tips and Tricks from our Experiences Something about tips and tricks we learned Ideas from Our Idea Generation List of ideas from our idea generation Credits Just like in movies, you get to meet the brilliant minds behind the project in the credits. Some might leave the cinema without reading them, but we hope you will continue to read our credits anyway; get to know us on a more personal level. At the end of the day, we probably have more in common than you think. You probably know the saying, behind every great team is a great amount of contributors? Our contributors have supported and inspired us, especially when things have been rough and deadlines near. Afterwards you can turn your attention towards our collaborations, since they are such an important part of the iGEM spirit.
Welcome to the team page, where you can get to know us on a more personal level. We are 12 students from 8 different majors. As a team, we have had the most amazing summer together, filled with various fun activities in- and outside the lab. We’ve had road trips, dinners, and we even celebrated Christmas in July! Of course we shared all of this with our wonderful supervisors, whom you can find listed under the team members.
Emil Bøgh Hansen Study: Biology Emil Søndergaard Study: History Emil Vyff Jørgensen Study: Physics Ellen Gammelmark Study: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Felix Boel Pedersen Study: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Frederik Bartholdy Flensmark Neergaard Study: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Frederik Mark Højsager Study: Medicine Jonas Borregaard Eriksen Study: Pharmacy Lene Vest Munk Thomsen Study: Philosophy Malte Skovsager Andersen Study: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Sarah Hyllekvist Jørgensen Study: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Sofie Mozart Mortensen Study: Biomedicine Nothing can be done alone, so please scroll further to read about the contributors, who helped make this project a reality. Nothing can be done alone, so please scroll further to read about the contributors, who helped make this project a reality. Laboratory, Technical and General support We would like to give special thanks to our supervisors: Thanks to: Sponsors Thanks to: Litterature Lots of nice articles and booksAkimov V, Henningsen J, Hallenborg P, Rigbolt KT, Jensen SS, Nielsen MM, Kratchmarova I, Blagoev B. StUbEx: Stable tagged ubiquitin exchange system for the global inves tigation of cellular ubiquitination. Journal of proteome res earch. 2014;13(9):4192-204.. Vestergaard P, Rejnmark L, Mosekilde L. Osteoporosis is markedly underdiagnosed: a nationwide study from Denmark. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 2005;16(2):134-41. Vestergaard P, Rejnmark L, Mosekilde L. Osteoporosis is markedly underdiagnosed: a nationwide study from Denmark. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 2005;16(2):134-41. Vestergaard P, Rejnmark L, Mosekilde L. Osteoporosis is markedly underdiagnosed: a nationwide study from Denmark. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 2005;16(2):134-41. Vestergaard P, Rejnmark L, Mosekilde L. Osteoporosis is markedly underdiagnosed: a nationwide study from Denmark. Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA. 2005;16(2):134-41. Project Synergism We have all been working together in every aspect of our project. Nevertheless, some people has had their focus on some areas more than others. The main groups are listed as follows; This year we attended several meetups which led to some amazing new friendships as well as helpful collaborations. Thanks to all the people that made this iGEM experience so memorable, we truly enjoyed your companionship! Danish ethics and wiki workshop at SDU In the spirit of the iGEM community, we hosted a meetup in august for our fellow Danish iGEM team: InCell from the University of Copenhagen (KU), and the Snakebite Detectives from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). A total of seven members from these two teams joined us for breakfast and attended our meetup. This was the first ever iGEM meetup hosted by our university, so we decided to make it something special. For this purpose we took advantage of our interdisciplinary team roster, and designed a workshop that focused on aiding our fellow Danish teams with their wiki and project related ethics. An undertaking that was, to our knowledge, the first time in the history of iGEM, that these two subjects were combined into a single workshop. We utilised the broad interdisciplinary profile of our team by having Emil S., who has a Bachelor of Arts in History, and Lene, who has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, hold presentations. These concerned respectively the perception of science throughout history and the bioethical aspects surrounding GMO. The ethical presentation was purposely turned into an ethical debate, where the different facets and viewpoints of ethical conduct were exchanged and discussed. After the presentations and discussions on ethical conduct, it was time for the second topic on the agenda: the wiki workshop. The SDU iGEM teams have won the Best Wiki prize several times in the past. As such we wanted to share the knowledge gained from our university's past experiences, with our fellow Danish teams. To facilitate this exchange of knowledge on wiki development, we recruited our current supervisor Thøger Jensen Krogh, to hold several presentations on how to design a good wiki. He was qualified for this task through his role as the designer of the SDU iGEM 2013 and 2014 teams wikis, which won the special prize on both occasions. During the presentation, Thøger had arranged for several workshop segments. All three teams were to mingle, discuss and evaluate the wikis, which resulted in a steady flow of information and constructive feedback between all three teams. After the a long day of learning and discussing, we went for a tour under the summer sun around our campus, which concluded in a visit to the roof terrace of the campus dormitory, followed by dinner.
Attending meetups Additionally to hosting our own meetup, we also attended several ones during our iGEM experience. The first of which, was the 5th Annual Biobrick Workshop in March, hosted by the Technical University of Denmark. This meetup not only gave us our first experience with the Biobrick Standard, but also worked as a foundation for friendships across the team.
Further collaboration In our project, we have been in contact with the iGEM teams from Bielefeld and Imperial College, who have helped us by sending us crucial parts for our project.
Thank you so much for reading our entire wiki, it’s now that you can sit back, relax, and be proud of your hard earned “I read their wiki”-emblem that we made. Just for you. Well, and the other readers, may there be any. While you do so, feel free to enjoy some of the less serious pictures and snippets of stories from our amazing iGEM summer.
lots of fun stories and pictures
All the best,PowerLeaf - a bacterial solar battery
Abstract
The bacterial solar battery is composed of an energy storing unit (1), and an energy converting unit (2). The energy storing unit (1) is defined by a genetically engineered Escherichia Coli, which fixates carbon dioxide into the chemically stable polymer cellulose. A light sensing system activates dormancy during nighttime, to reduce energy lost by metabolism. The energy converting unit (2) uses genetically engineered Geobacter Sulfurreducens to consume the stored cellulose. Retrieved electrons are transferred by optimized nanowires to an anode resulting in an electrical current.About Our Wiki
Since it’s a one page wiki, I decided to keep all the information on this single page. Which of course can seem like a lot of text on one page. Don’t worry though, whenever there is in-depth information, not all our readers will be needing, it’s hidden within a pop-up screen. Once you’re done reading the in-depth details, you simply close the pop-up screen and continue right where you left off, just like with this section. Throughout the wiki, you will be able to see this (book icon), if you hover over it, details about the references of the specific statements will appear.
As a person, always in a race against time, I can definitely identify with those of you who just need the details of the wiki, quick-and-dirty. So, I went ahead and highlighted some of the important things, that should make you able to quickly skim-read the entire wiki and get the most important information. Whenever you need my highlights, just go ahead and enable them in the top right corner. Go ahead and give it a try, it makes this wiki-nonsense so much easier to understand. ;-)
We decided to make a proof-of-concept project. Specifically, we wanted to use bacteria as a novel and greener solution for solar energy storage. This project was later dubbed the PowerLeaf – a bacterial solar battery. There is so much to tell you about our bacterial solar battery and its’ amazing features.
Since it’s a one-page wiki, you will be taken on a journey, and introduced to our story throughout the wiki-page. Just keep scrolling, and we will gently guide you through our project.
Achievements
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World Situation
One of the most recognized methods to restore this balance, is the implementation and advancement of technologies for renewable energy. However, there are currently certain limitations on the existing solutions for renewable energy; the intermittency- and diluteness problem. The intermittency problem describes the discontinuous energy production, with inefficient storage. Whereas the diluteness problem is described as the resource demanding production of technical devices, such as solar cells and batteries.
To face these problems, we took on the challenge of creating a truly green solution!
Thankfully, through our interaction with local experts, we quickly learned that a great deal of people share our philosophy – the belief that we ought to pursue the creation of low energy cities with a high quality of life. In fact we even discovered that our very own city(hometown) – Odense – wants to be the greenest, most renewable city in Denmark by 2050 https://www.odense.dk/borger/miljoe-og-affald/klima.
We decided to partake in this goal, by taking on the challenge to create a truly green solution, which will offer not only a source of energy, but also a green aesthetic and naturalistic ambience to compliment a high quality of city-life.
Please keep scrolling if you wish to read more about our solution, or go straight to bioethics, if you wish to read about why we not only could, but ought to do something about the current energy crisis.
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Through this, we felt inspired and decided to revise our ideas. At this point, our project was starting to take its final shape. They even inspired the physical design for our final product; the PowerLeaf.
Our Solution
The bacterial solar battery we envision, is composed of an energy storing- and an energy converting unit. The energy storing unit is defined by a genetically engineered Escherichia Coli (E. Coli). The E. Coli uses solar energy for ATP production, to fixate carbon dioxide into the chemically stable polymer, cellulose, essentially making it a battery. A light sensing system activates dormancy during nighttime, in order to reduce energy lost by metabolism. The energy converting unit uses genetically engineered Geobacter Sulfurreducens to consume the stored cellulose, using an inducible switch. Retrieved electrons are transferred by optimized nanowires to an anode, resulting in an electrical current.
The device is designed to resemble a plant leaf, which is meant to provide a nature-in-city ambience. This hypothetical implementation of the PowerLeaf in an urban environment, was developed through public engagement and collaborations. We even worked together with local city planners from our hometown, Odense.
Our vision was clear and ambitions were high, probably too high, considering the limited timeframe. So, at an early stage, we decided to focus on the following features:
this section needs a little more text and an illustration of the system
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Project Design
Modelling
Experiments
Demonstration and Results
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Parts
Notebook
SOPs and Protocols
Lab Safety
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Bioethics
Integrated Practices
Events
Perspectives
As the technology of the PowerLeaf develops, it will not only be self-replicating, it will also be able to replicate using CO2 from its environment. This will make it able to clean the cities from pollution. The PowerLeaf even has the potential to become even less dependent on inputs to the device, as biological editing tools become better and more complex. The device might become completely independent, when it comes to the metabolic pathways that produce essential amino acids and vitamins required for its functionality.
Sociologically the PowerLeaf will, by representing a natural leaf design, lead to a nature-in-city ambiance. Not only will the design represent a plant leaf, but some of the key functionality aspects of the device are inspired from those of a plant leaf. Hereby, we refer to photo synthesis and building cellulose as a biological product.
To Future iGEM Teams
Systems that did work:
Systems that didn’t work:
System we didn’t work on but should be implemented in the device:
Last but not least, don’t miss out on the ‘after-the-credits-clip’, which summarizes the fun we had during this wonderful iGEM experience. This is especially important, since you get the ‘thank you for listening, we hope you liked our wiki and project’ - we know you have been waiting impatiently to reach that part of the wiki.
Team
E-mail: ehans15@student.sdu.dk
Howdy! I’m the first of many Emil’s, and the team's only biologist! I am a huge wolf enthusiast! This summer I put my boots in the closet, in order to put on a proper lab coat doing iGEM. Besides my time in the lab I’ve also looked into how GMOs can influence the environment.
E-mail: emsoe09@student.sdu.dk
Ahoy thar! My name is Emil, and I want to be the next Indiana Jones. But before I can raid any tombs, I’ve decided to raid iGEM trophies. When I’m not cooking or travelling, I’m drawing on my background in history for communications and human practices.
E-mail: ejoer15@student.sdu.dk
Mojn! I am yet another Emil! I might not be a model biochemist, so instead I am modelling biochemistry! My iGEM existence is a stochastic binary function between naps and extreme bursts of energy.
E-mail: elgam15@student.sdu.dk
hy, hello there! My name is Ellen, and I spend most of my waking hours either in the lab with a pipette in my hand, or just outside it with a computer on my lap. You know.. Learn iGEM, live iGEM, love iGEM!
E-mail: feped15@student.sdu.dk
Aloha. My name is Felix and I bring joy to others by eating my daily ryebread with paté. 2 years and still going strong, magical. Speaking of magic, I’m the team’s wiki lizard(get it?). I also join the others in the lab from time to time, when they miss me too much.
E-mail: frnee15@student.sdu.dk
Hey yo! I’m Frederik and I have worked day and night on iGEM, mostly drinking beers at night time, but that should count as well. When I’m not working in lab or on the PC, I make fun with the other teammates and tell bad dad jokes. Also I make crazy ideas come true, like celebrating christmas in July.
E-mail: frhoe14@student.sdu.dk
Heyah! I’m the other Frederik. I’m a green, lean, coffee-machine. I’ve been the steady supplier, and consumer of coffee on the team. My main focus has been on how to build a sustainable iGEM-project. I’ve been planting trees, eating green and lowering our team's carbon-footprint. Oh, and did I also mention I starred in our commercial? You can get autographs later.
E-mail: jerik15@student.sdu.dk
Hey sup? I’m Jonas and used to like sports, partying, eating cake, hanging out with friends and such things most people like to do. During iGEM these interest has changed… I have been enslaved into the lab, and has realised that the only purpose of my life is to be in the lab.
E-mail: letho11@student.sdu.dk
Hey, is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me? When not wondering whether or not there is an external world, I’ve been busy working out how to implement our solar battery into our local community and what to gain from doing so. Oh, and imposing metaethics on my team members, but I Kant go into detail with this just yet.
E-mail: malta14@student.sdu.dk
Ey what up pimps, I’m Malte. I’ve mostly been working in the lab wrapped in the dankest of lab coats, doing the most exciting of experiments. All in the name of why the hell not. In the lab the utmost highest level of patience is needed, especially when tasked with testing if biobricks function as intended. This has, as seen in the image, caused me to pull out most of my hair.
E-mail: sajo415@student.sdu.dk
Despite my favorite occupation being going into depth with theory, my main attribution to our project has primarily been running around in the lab. Luckily, there is a clear link between wet- and dry-lab. I am the smallest member of the SDU iGEM team, but I have definitely risen to the occasion.
E-mail: sofmo15@student.sdu.dk
Hi there! My name is Sofie, and I am the team mama! I am the one who makes sure everyone gets their fair share of cake. When I’m not in the kitchen, busy making cakes for my teammates, you can find me in the lab, where I’m working on enhancing our systems cellulose production.Attributions
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As part of the evaluation of the meetup, it was suggested, that we should make the SDU meetup a tradition for future teams. Another suggestion was that the teams ought to get together later in the process, where they could once again evaluate each other's progress on the wikis.
Our second meetup, the Nordic iGEM Conference, was hosted by the University of Copenhagen in june. The main focus of this meetup, was the traditional mini Jamboree. The outcome of participating in which was useful feedback from the judges, as well as the other iGEM teams - which helped us further shape and develop our project.
To celebrate the beginning of our iGEM summer, we went on a road trip to attend at the European Meetup, hosted by the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Here we discussed ideas regarding our project at a poster session, learned from all the other great iGEM team’s projects and made new friends from all over Europe.
As our project revolves around global warming and green sustainable energy, we were thrilled to hear about the iGEM Goes Green initiative from the TU Dresden iGEM team. Following their guidelines, we have calculated the carbon footprint of our laboratory work and travelling. We have, in part, tried to make up for our carbon footprint, by changing our travelling and eating habits in our everyday lives. Furthermore we have reduced our daily electricity consumption and made an effort of sorting waste. The full report can be scrutinized here **det skal så være link til en model, hvori der er meget mere tekst*
As the iGEM team from Macquarie has worked with the implementation of photosynthesis in E. coli since 2013, we sought their expertise. Which we achieved through a Skype call. Here we discussed what particular challenges the current and previous teams have experienced in their projects. Furthermore, we found that their team could equally benefit from our team, as they were interested in the electron transport pathways that we used.
Additionally, we were able to help the Stony Brook iGEM team by facilitating communication with members of the SDU iGEM team from 2016. Shortly after the European meetup, we received a mail from the Cologne-Düsseldorf iGEM team regarding a postcard campaign idea, which we gave some feedback.
During our project we have received several questionnaires from fellow teams, which we have been happy to fill out. These included questionnaires from the following iGEM teams:
Final Words
SDU-Denmark 2017