Synergy: Putting it all Together

Incorporating human practices in the design of our system

In the earlier stages of our project, we realized that in order to give our project the best chance of being implemented, we needed to do it in a way that was in line with both industry’s wants and needs. In order to ensure we did this, we established a dialogue with several experts in order to get their opinions on how we should approach our project. This led to an informed design of our system, in which we emphasized the need for both physical and genetic containment devices.

Have we accomplished our goal?

Nearing the end of our project however, we wanted to see if we had accomplished what we set out to do. So we decided to go back to the experts, this time taking the progress we’ve made on our project with us. We got a variety of different perspectives from suggestions on the. One major concern was scale-up. One expert wanted to know how feasible this system would actually be. We have some FRED components, we have OSCAR some OSCAR components, and we have some killswitch components. So our next major goal was to try to put some of these pieces together in order to assess how far we’d actually gotten.

Talking to experts again... The final product and scale-up.

Incorporating the Killswitch into OSCAR

- Data: glycine knockout growth in media (David), Glycine

Biosensor field test

Bioreactor field test

pics, video, GC-MS data