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<br/>Chris Morton - Team Leader
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Our project is about trying to reduce the waste going into landfill sites by engineering a bacteria to degrade polystyrene. Some bacteria have been found to form biofilms on polystyrene, indicating that polystyrene may be being degraded, albeit at a very slow rate. We have several different parts to our project, including a citizen science experiment (CSE).
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We intend to find and extract the genes involved in the pathway of degrading Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). We can then use this to develop a new pathway involving modifications to existing enzymes able to degrade aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons to fit polystyrene and its derivatives into the active sites. The bacteria strain that we insert these new genes into should then be able to degrade polystyrene at a higher rate than natural bacteria.
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The team consists of a computer scientist, 2 organic chemists, 3 genetecists, and 3 biochemists. The whole team has been insured by the genetics department to work in the lab so all of us can contribute to the actual experiments.


Chris Morton - Team Leader
Anthony Cox - Vice Team Leader
Philip Higgs - Treasurer
Luke Thompson - Lab Leader
Nathan Hanna - Webmaster
Will Harrison - Chief Fundraiser
Emily Halsey - Bioinformatician
Reema Naran - Organic Chemist
Mohammed Idres - Organic Chemist


The jobs were allocated to make the workload lighter, and so everyone has a specific part to play in team.

Leicester logo.png

Our project is about trying to reduce the waste going into landfill sites by engineering a bacteria to degrade polystyrene. Some bacteria have been found to form biofilms on polystyrene, indicating that polystyrene may be being degraded, albeit at a very slow rate. We have several different parts to our project, including a citizen science experiment (CSE).


We intend to find and extract the genes involved in the pathway of degrading Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). We can then use this to develop a new pathway involving modifications to existing enzymes able to degrade aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons to fit polystyrene and its derivatives into the active sites. The bacteria strain that we insert these new genes into should then be able to degrade polystyrene at a higher rate than natural bacteria.

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Team Leicester


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Meet the team



Supervisors :

  • Main Supervisor: Dr Richard Badge
  • supervisor 2: Dr Raymond Dalgleish
  • supervisor 3: Professor Julian Ketley


Undergrads:

  • Project Leader: Christopher Robert Morton
  • vice Project leader: Anthony Cox
  • Lad Leader: Luke Thompson
  • bioinformatician : Emily Halsey
  • Chief Fundraiser : William Harrison
  • Web master: Nathan Hanna
  • Treasurer : Philip Higgs
  • Organic Chemist : Reema Naran
  • Organic Chemist : Idres Mohammed
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Team member 1

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Team member 2

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Team member 3

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Team member 4

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Team member 5

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Team member 6

Treasurer : Philip Higgs

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Team member 8

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Team member 9

What we did

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Where we're from

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