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Team:Evry/Overview/Project
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Overview - Project
Water is the most precious and fragile resource on Earth. However seas and oceans are polluted by a wide range of compounds stemming from human activities.
Faced with this issue, our team wants to heighten awareness about environmental pollution and particularly its devastating consequences on the aquatic life.
In this line of thinking we are driven to design a bioremediation tool based on the considerable filtration capacity of sponges to decrease the marine pollution and protect aquatic ecosystems.
We have created a new chassis able to work in depth of oceans thank to a forceful duo : bacterium and sponge. Hence, the sponge can filtrate up to 20m3 of water/day/kg making it one of the most powerful filtrating system alive.
This year, our team objective is to develop a filtrating system which could allow to sense and could even degrade pollutants in the future.
For this project, we chose to work on elements most great classes of marine pollutants belonging to most important classes of pollutants of the marine environment.
Hence, we have chosen to focus on phenols, PCBs, nitrite and heavy metals.
The Sponge Patrol Project
For the third participation to the iGEM competition, we decided to introduce a new chassis to the competition, based on the symbiosis between bacteria and sponges.
We have worked on the bacterium Pseudovibrio denitrificans living in symbiosis with the sponge : Spongia Officinali.
Chassis
Transposons
Target
Chassis
Chassis - Cell characterization
Transposons
Target
Toxic compounds
Le détail des 3 soius-unités avec une image sympa pour chacun, on clique dessus pour avoir la suite
Chassis : draw a bacteria in water the same as the one in the logo
