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    <td colspan="2" rowspan="7" valign="top"><p>Hi! We are the University of Leicester iGEM Team, a group of Biologists, Chemists and a Computer Scientist, all focused on degrading polystyrene. </p>
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<p>The team consists of a computer scientist (Emily), two organic chemists (Reema and Idres) , one main stream biological scientist (Christopher), two geneticists (Anthony and Nathan), and three biochemists (William, Luke and Philip). The whole team were inducted into the Genetics Department at the University of Leicester. This means everybody is cleared to work in the lab and all of us can contribute to the hands-on experiments.<br />
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    <p>Christopher Morton - Project Leader <br />
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    <td>We're from the University of Leicester, located in the UK. The University was founded in 1921 and gained  University Status by Royal Charter in 1957. It is perhaps most famous for the discovery of DNA fingerprinting by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS (one of our generous sponsors!). It is also home to the Genetics Education Network for Innovation and Exellence (GENIE), the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Genetics. </td>
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Our project is about trying to reduce the amount of Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS) waste going into landfill sites by engineering a bacteria to degrade this long lived material. Some bacteria have been found to form biofilms on polystyrene, indicating that it may be being degraded by micro-organisms, albeit at a very slow rate. We have several different parts to our project, including a citizen science experiment (CSE).
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Over the summer the team intend to isolate the genes involved in the EPS degradation pathway. These can then be used to develop an improved pathway,  for example by making modifications to the enzymes that act on polystyrene. One approach is to modify existing enzymes that are able to degrade aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons to accommodate polystyrene into their active sites. The bacteria that have these new genes inserted should then be able to degrade polystyrene at a much higher rate than naturally occurring bacteria.
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If we can build a bacteria that can degrade the polystyrene it could potentially be applied to landfill sites to degrade the polystyrene in situ, reducing the amount of this long-lasting waste. Alternatively the bacteria could be used as a first step in polystyrene recycling by engineering it to produce chemical intermediates that slot into other synthetic pathways, reclaiming the valuable fossil hydrocarbons the polystyrene was originally made from.
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Latest revision as of 08:11, 26 September 2012

iGEM Leicester Test Page 2012

Meet the team

Hi! We are the University of Leicester iGEM Team, a group of Biologists, Chemists and a Computer Scientist, all focused on degrading polystyrene.

The team consists of a computer scientist (Emily), two organic chemists (Reema and Idres) , one main stream biological scientist (Christopher), two geneticists (Anthony and Nathan), and three biochemists (William, Luke and Philip). The whole team were inducted into the Genetics Department at the University of Leicester. This means everybody is cleared to work in the lab and all of us can contribute to the hands-on experiments.

Christopher Morton - Project Leader
Anthony Cox - Vice Project Leader
Philip Higgs - Treasurer
Luke Thompson - Lab Leader
Nathan Hanna - Webmaster
Will Harrison - Deputy lab Leader
Emily Halsey - Bioinformatician
Reema Naran - Organic Chemist
Mohammed Idres - Organic Chemist

 

Christopher Morton - Project Leader

Anthony Cox - Vice Project Leader

Philip Higgs - Treasuerer

Luke Thompson - Lab Leader

William Harrison - Deputy lab Leader

Nathan Hanna - Webmaster

Emily Halsey - Bioinformatician

Reema Naran - Organic Chemist

Mohammed Idres - Organic Chemist
     

Where we're from
We're from the University of Leicester, located in the UK. The University was founded in 1921 and gained University Status by Royal Charter in 1957. It is perhaps most famous for the discovery of DNA fingerprinting by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS (one of our generous sponsors!). It is also home to the Genetics Education Network for Innovation and Exellence (GENIE), the UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Genetics.

Our Sponsors

 

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