Team:Consort Alberta

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11 students, and one supervisor make up the Consort iGEM team. Being in the middle of no where, 3 and a half hours away from the nearest University, it's tough to get all the supplies we need when it comes to lab equipment. We not only took on the challenge of genetically engineering E.Coli, but we took on the challenges of building our very own lab from the ground up, design, HTML coding, and most importantly, synthetic biology. Before iGEM, we didn't even know there was such a thing as "Synthetic Biology", so we were completely oblivious to the concept of genetic engineering (and we '''still''' are).''
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<b> <font size="6"> Consort Alberta iGEM 2013  </font> </b>
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This is our first year in the competition. Our class heard about this competition in late November from our Biology teacher, Gerry Bourassa, when he returned from a Science Conference. The class started brainstorming ideas for our project right after we signed up in late January. After which we  
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[[Image:iGem_Logo_Shadow.png|250px|left|]] <br>  <p> Eleven students and two supervisors make up the Consort iGEM team. We are located in Consort, Alberta and attend the local K-12 school which has 232 students, with around 70 people in the high school. This is our very first year in iGEM and, being in the middle of nowhere, three and a half hours away from the nearest city with a bio chemistry lab.  Because of our remoteness, it has been a little problematic to get the supplies we need. We not only took on the task of genetically engineering E.Coli, but we took on the challenges of developing our very own biochemistry lab in the high school science classroom, designing the bio brick, teaching ourselves HTML coding, and most importantly teaching our community about synthetic biology. The iGem project has been a great experience for all of us, and we cannot wait to participate in the coming years when we will have the equipment and the experience to focus more on the science than we were able to this year.
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The aim of this year’s Consort high-school iGEM project is to engineer a bacterial strain which can be used to test for xylene levels in soil samples. We live in a rural area and our economy is based on agriculture and fossil fuel production. The presence of certain hydrocarbon compounds can pose health and safety risks if they enter the food chain or if people exceed safe exposure limits. Oil and gas wells are routinely drilled on leases, which are small portions of fields used for agricultural production. Oil is usually trucked from these sites to collection centres where it is processed. Every time the oil is transferred, there is an opportunity for some spillage to occur. Not all spills, however, are equally dangerous and differentiating between more and less dangerous spills is important in reacting to them appropriately. Additionally, the extent or the presence of a dangerous spill is often uncertain. Our project would, in principle, allow anyone to easily and quickly answer all the queries above. Early identification of contamination will facilitate rapid clean-up and minimize health risks to members of our community and to the consumers who rely on the food we produce.
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Our focus during this project has been to construct E. Coli to detect Xylene, an aromatic-hydrocarbon. Our bacteria will do this by producing a protein named xylR, which in the presence of Xylene will produce a Green Florescent Protein.
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Consort is a small town on the eastern side of Alberta, Canada. Each member of our team is in our Biology 30 course, and is striving for a new experience such as iGEM. This competition is enriching our education while having a fun time doing it. Here is a link if you would like to <html><a href="https://2013hs.igem.org/Team:Consort_Alberta/team">meet our team.</a></html>
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Consort Alberta iGEM 2013

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Eleven students and two supervisors make up the Consort iGEM team. We are located in Consort, Alberta and attend the local K-12 school which has 232 students, with around 70 people in the high school. This is our very first year in iGEM and, being in the middle of nowhere, three and a half hours away from the nearest city with a bio chemistry lab. Because of our remoteness, it has been a little problematic to get the supplies we need. We not only took on the task of genetically engineering E.Coli, but we took on the challenges of developing our very own biochemistry lab in the high school science classroom, designing the bio brick, teaching ourselves HTML coding, and most importantly teaching our community about synthetic biology. The iGem project has been a great experience for all of us, and we cannot wait to participate in the coming years when we will have the equipment and the experience to focus more on the science than we were able to this year.


The aim of this year’s Consort high-school iGEM project is to engineer a bacterial strain which can be used to test for xylene levels in soil samples. We live in a rural area and our economy is based on agriculture and fossil fuel production. The presence of certain hydrocarbon compounds can pose health and safety risks if they enter the food chain or if people exceed safe exposure limits. Oil and gas wells are routinely drilled on leases, which are small portions of fields used for agricultural production. Oil is usually trucked from these sites to collection centres where it is processed. Every time the oil is transferred, there is an opportunity for some spillage to occur. Not all spills, however, are equally dangerous and differentiating between more and less dangerous spills is important in reacting to them appropriately. Additionally, the extent or the presence of a dangerous spill is often uncertain. Our project would, in principle, allow anyone to easily and quickly answer all the queries above. Early identification of contamination will facilitate rapid clean-up and minimize health risks to members of our community and to the consumers who rely on the food we produce.

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