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<li><b>Human Practices: </b>We made sure our project made a significant impact on the community as a whole, with a variety of stem days, outreach activities, and our very own iGEM summer camp. We introduced the idea of synthetic biology into the curriculum of local elementary schools and went to a variety of meetings with industry professionals, from BP, Exxon, Synthetic Genomics, and even a representative from Argonne National Laboratories. We used our project as a catalyst for increasing awareness of the nuances of biological research, and we made sure we talked to experts in the field to ensure our project was viable and potentially implementable.</li> | <li><b>Human Practices: </b>We made sure our project made a significant impact on the community as a whole, with a variety of stem days, outreach activities, and our very own iGEM summer camp. We introduced the idea of synthetic biology into the curriculum of local elementary schools and went to a variety of meetings with industry professionals, from BP, Exxon, Synthetic Genomics, and even a representative from Argonne National Laboratories. We used our project as a catalyst for increasing awareness of the nuances of biological research, and we made sure we talked to experts in the field to ensure our project was viable and potentially implementable.</li> | ||
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Revision as of 03:25, 2 November 2017
Medal Criteria
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- Integrated Human Practices: Taking the advice of the scientists we talked to, we used their techniques and guidance to improve our testing procedures. PAH’s and bioremediation are fairly niche topics, so we sought out industry professionals like Roger Prince, who invented bioremediation as a concept, and talked to BP, who likewise deal with these kinds of crises regularly. Their insight into how we could test nonpolar, generally insoluble materials in a biological setting was key to how we formatted our entire testing protocol.
- Improving the function of a BioBrick: We took pSB3K3, and replaced the origin of replication with an Rk2 to generate a shuttle vector that can be replicated and expressed in a wider range of bacterial vectors. This resulted in the creation of BBa_K2491030.
- Modelling: We did an intensive modelling of the degradation pathways and mechanisms behind our project’s degradation of fluorene, naphthalene, and phenanthrene using Pymol and the Swiss Model softwares. The models can be found under our Model page.
- Demonstration: Our project was demonstrated to be effective by a demo experiment we conducted. More details can be found under the Demo tab.