Team:Michigan

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The Toluene Terminator Investigating Toluene Remediation In-Situ Toluene is a toxic substance used in petrol, paint, paint thinners and adhesives. Through spills and improper disposal, toluene can contaminate soil and ground water environments. Using microorganisms to clean up toluene-contaminated sites can be an effective and economical way of degrading the pollution before it can spread throughout the environment. There is concern, however, that these non-native microorganisms may upset the balance of the ecosystem through unnatural competition or horizontal synthetic gene transfer. We are engineering the Toluene Terminator as a way to neutralize toluene pollution while addressing these concerns. It will have the capabilities of sensing and mineralizing the toluene into carbon dioxide and water, but this terminator will not be back. The Toluene Terminator will have a suicide mechanism which kills the bacteria in the absence of toluene.

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+{{Michigan Header}}
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-This is a template page. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
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-<div id="instructions" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; color: #f6f6f6; padding: 5px;">
-You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season.  You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki.  You can find some examples <a href="https://2009.igem.org/Help:Template/Examples">HERE</a>.
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-You <strong>MUST</strong> have a team description page, a project abstract, a complete project description, and a lab notebook.  PLEASE keep all of your pages within your teams namespace.
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+{|class="wikitable" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="1" style="padding: 1px; background-color:dodgerblue;  border: 1px solid mediumblue; text-align:center"
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+<font color=royalblue size=6>The Toluene</font>
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+<font color=royalblue size=6>Terminator</font>
-|You can write a background of your team here.  Give us a background of your team, the members, etc.  Or tell us more about something of your choosing.
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-|[[Image:Example_logo.png|200px|right|frame]]
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+==<B><font size=4>Investigating Toluene Remediation In-Situ</font></B>==
-''Tell us more about your project.  Give us background.  Use this is the abstract of your project.  Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)''
+<div align=justify>
-|[[Image:Team.png|right|frame|Your team picture]]
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+Toluene is a toxic substance used in petrol, paint, paint thinners and adhesives.  Through spills and improper disposal, toluene can contaminate soil and ground water environments.  Using microorganisms to clean up toluene-contaminated sites can be an effective and economical way of degrading the pollution before it can spread throughout the environment.  There is concern, however, that these non-native microorganisms may upset the balance of the ecosystem through unnatural competition or horizontal synthetic gene transfer.  We are engineering the Toluene Terminator as a way to neutralize toluene pollution while addressing these concerns.  It will have the capabilities of sensing and mineralizing the toluene into carbon dioxide and water, but this terminator will not be back.  The Toluene Terminator will have a suicide mechanism which kills the bacteria in the absence of toluene.  </div><br>
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-|align="center"|[[Team:Michigan | Team Example]]
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+[[Image:Tshirtbackyellowbg.png|400px]]
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-{| style="color:#1b2c8a;background-color:#0c6;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="1" bordercolor="#fff" width="62%" align="center"
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan|Home]]
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan/Team|The Team]]
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan/Project|The Project]]
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan/Parts|Parts Submitted to the Registry]]
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan/Modeling|Modeling]]
-!align="center"|[[Team:Michigan/Notebook|Notebook]]
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-(''Or you can choose different headings.  But you must have a team page, a project page, and a notebook page.'')