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| − | <h1> Welcome to iGEM 2017! </h1> | + | <h1>Preliminary Project Description </h1> |
| − | <p>Your team has been approved and you are ready to start the iGEM season! </p> | + | <p>Organisms engineered by synthetic biologists have the potential to deliver solutions to a wide range of problems. However, they must be implemented in responsible and controlled ways. |
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| + | For example, last year the Kingsborough team focused on engineering E. coli to degrade nitrogeous waste in sewage more effectively. However, we found that E. coli can survive in local waterways, which is the ultimate desintation for wastewater after treatment. To combat escape of modified E. coli from the treatment plant, we are focused this year on improving and characterizing a control element, commonly referred to as a 'Kill switch'. |
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| − | <li> <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition">Competition Hub</a> </li>
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| − | <p>You may style this page as you like or you can simply leave the style as it is. Kingsborough is the '''best'''. You can easily keep the styling and edit the content of these default wiki pages with your project information and completely fulfill the requirement to document your project.</p>
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| − | <p>While you may not win Best Wiki with this styling, your team is still eligible for all other awards. This default wiki meets the requirements, it improves navigability and ease of use for visitors, and you should not feel it is necessary to style beyond what has been provided.</p>
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| − | <p>We have created these wiki template pages to help you get started and to help you think about how your team will be evaluated. You can find a list of all the pages tied to awards here at the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Judging/Pages_for_Awards">Pages for awards</a> link. You must edit these pages to be evaluated for medals and awards, but ultimately the design, layout, style and all other elements of your team wiki is up to you!</p>
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Preliminary Project Description
Organisms engineered by synthetic biologists have the potential to deliver solutions to a wide range of problems. However, they must be implemented in responsible and controlled ways.
For example, last year the Kingsborough team focused on engineering E. coli to degrade nitrogeous waste in sewage more effectively. However, we found that E. coli can survive in local waterways, which is the ultimate desintation for wastewater after treatment. To combat escape of modified E. coli from the treatment plant, we are focused this year on improving and characterizing a control element, commonly referred to as a 'Kill switch'.
We will focus on development of a light-inducible kill switch, since the bacteria will not be exposed to significant amounts of light within the sewage treatment plant. Other teams have proposed and modelled such switches, but few have successfully built, implemented, and characterized such devices.
