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<p>This page is used by the judges to evaluate your team for the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Judging/Medals">medal criterion</a> or <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Judging/Awards"> award listed above</a>. </p>
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            For our gold medal criteria, we looked more into the problems concerning our ethylene production. Our subpopulation approach will use sucrose as a substrate, which is a carbon-neutral process. To reduce the food vs fuel conflict we looked into lignocellulose and the sucrose production using cyanobacterium. As we thought of these ideas mostly thanks to Graanul Invest, who contacted us in the beginning of October. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to implement our possible solutions into the project.
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<p>This page will contain information for your Gold medal Human Practices work, which you can also use to nominate your team for the Best Integrated Human Practices page. To make things easier, we have combined the Gold medal page with the Best Integrated Human Practices page since we expect the work to overlap considerably. </p>
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<p>iGEM teams are unique and leading the field because they "go beyond the lab" to imagine their projects in a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.</p>
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<p>Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest. </p>
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition/Human_Practices">Human Practices page</a>.</p>
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We got sponsored by Graanul Invest, an Estonian wood pellet producer. They were interested in our project and proposed the idea of biodegradation of lignocelluloses (for example from their wood pellets.) as a possibility to solve the food vs fuel conflict by the use of sucrose. Therefore we started looking more into the possibility of using sugar from the lignocellulose as substrate.
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The other option could be adding Synechococcus elongates a sucrose-secreting cyanobacterium, which would be engineered to over-express an Escherichia coli gene cscB to effectively secrete intercellular sucrose, to our cultures. The cyanobacterium would use CO<sub>2</sub> and light while being in salt-stress to make sucrose, which would be secreted to the media.
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We didn’t have time to implement these ideas, but we think that these would be a valid possibility to make our project better. With the lignocellulose approach, we would make this approach a reality for Estonia, as we have a lot of biomass.
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<p>Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project.</p>
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1.    Arfi, Y. (2014) Integration of bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases into designer cellulosomes promotes enhanced cellulose degradation  <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/25/9109.full">http://www.pnas.org/content/111/25/9109.full</a> (16.10.2017)
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2.    Li, T. et al. (2017). Mimicking lichens: incorporation of yeast strains together with sucrose-secreting cyanobacteria improves survival, growth, ROS removal, and lipid production in a stable mutualistic co-culture production platform. Biotechnology for Biofuels <a href="https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-017-0736-x">https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-017-0736-x</a> (16.10.2017)
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<li><a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:INSA-Lyon/Integrated_Practices">2016 INSA Lyon</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:UofC_Calgary/Integrated_Practices">2016 UofC Calgary</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/Practices">2015 Bielefeld</a></li>
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Latest revision as of 22:43, 1 November 2017

For our gold medal criteria, we looked more into the problems concerning our ethylene production. Our subpopulation approach will use sucrose as a substrate, which is a carbon-neutral process. To reduce the food vs fuel conflict we looked into lignocellulose and the sucrose production using cyanobacterium. As we thought of these ideas mostly thanks to Graanul Invest, who contacted us in the beginning of October. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to implement our possible solutions into the project.
We got sponsored by Graanul Invest, an Estonian wood pellet producer. They were interested in our project and proposed the idea of biodegradation of lignocelluloses (for example from their wood pellets.) as a possibility to solve the food vs fuel conflict by the use of sucrose. Therefore we started looking more into the possibility of using sugar from the lignocellulose as substrate.
The other option could be adding Synechococcus elongates a sucrose-secreting cyanobacterium, which would be engineered to over-express an Escherichia coli gene cscB to effectively secrete intercellular sucrose, to our cultures. The cyanobacterium would use CO2 and light while being in salt-stress to make sucrose, which would be secreted to the media.
We didn’t have time to implement these ideas, but we think that these would be a valid possibility to make our project better. With the lignocellulose approach, we would make this approach a reality for Estonia, as we have a lot of biomass.

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1. Arfi, Y. (2014) Integration of bacterial lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases into designer cellulosomes promotes enhanced cellulose degradation http://www.pnas.org/content/111/25/9109.full (16.10.2017)

2. Li, T. et al. (2017). Mimicking lichens: incorporation of yeast strains together with sucrose-secreting cyanobacteria improves survival, growth, ROS removal, and lipid production in a stable mutualistic co-culture production platform. Biotechnology for Biofuels https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-017-0736-x (16.10.2017)