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IGEM Evry 2014

Overview - Project


The Sponge Patrol 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.
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
Conference
Transposons
Workshops
Target
Hackathons


Chassis


We have created a new chassis able to work in depth of oceans thank to a forceful duo : bacterium and sponge. They live together on symbiosis in depth oceans.

Chassis - Cell characterization

Transposons




Transposons

Target


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.

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