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Team
The Deerfield, MA iGEM team is composed of students from Deerfield Academy and Frontier Regional High School. Deerfield Academy is a boarding school located in Western Massachusetts, while Frontier Regional High School is located in proximity to Deerfield.
Mercury poisoning is a serious problem, which can devastate fish populations and ecosystems. Humans who consume contaminated fish may experience negative affects as a result. The Deerfield, MA iGEM Team has proposed a remedy to this issue with the aid of a biosensor. Our goal is to manipulate the system found in part K346001 that uses the merR gene to detect mercury, and then either promote or suppress a reporter gene. Previously GFP has been used as the reporter, but our plan is to test a few different reporters including Lumazine (K216007) and LacZ (I0500). We will test for transform efficiency, reporter strength, and objective overall succes to find which reporter is most effective in this system. Once these transformed cells are produced, someone (i.e. a fisherman) would be able to take a water sample in the area he or she plans to fish, allow the cells to inoculate overnight in the water sample, and then discover whether mercury is present in the water source. Depending on the output, the cells may be able to detect the severity of the contamination.
Notebook
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Results/Conclusions
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Safety
We will be using Mercury 2+ as compared to Mercury for our experiments for two reasons: Mercury is not soluble in water and is less safe to work with than Mercury 2+.
Attributions
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Human Practices
The toxic metal known as Mercury is sometimes found in water sources such as rivers and lakes. Mercury damages the ecosystems and is harmful to wildlife. If a fisherman catches a fish that has been contaminated with mercury, the results can prove hazardous. One remedy to this issue is to create a biosensor with the ability to detect whether mercury is present in a water source. If a someone such as a fisherman took a water sample from an area, and then allowed it to inoculate overnight with our biosensor, he or she would be able to detect whether Mercury is present and potentially to what level of severity the area has been contaminated.
Fun!
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