From 2009.igem.org
(Difference between revisions)
|
|
| Line 450: |
Line 450: |
| | |} | | |} |
| | | | |
| - | [[Media:Example.ogg]]== '''Who we are''' ==
| + | == '''Who we are''' == |
| | {|border = "0" | | {|border = "0" |
| | |- | | |- |
| Line 494: |
Line 494: |
| | |} | | |} |
| | | | |
| - | == '''What we did''' ==
| |
| - |
| |
| - | (Provide proper attribution for all work)
| |
| | | | |
| | == '''Where we're from''' == | | == '''Where we're from''' == |
| | The city by the bay, a center of beauty and biotechnology for Northern California. | | The city by the bay, a center of beauty and biotechnology for Northern California. |
Revision as of 23:11, 21 October 2009
| Project description
|
|
We at City College of San Francisco, the world's first Junior College iGEM team, have begun constructing a bacterial powered battery. The design has been generated with sustainability in mind, and aims to create an alternative to traditional fossil fuel technologies.
The battery owes its capabilities to two strains of bacteria: the heterotroph Rhodoferax ferrireducens, and the photoautotroph Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Each strain will occupy its own concentration cell and after being cultured anaerobically, will either oxidize (in the case of R. palustris) ferrous iron or reduce (in the case of R. ferrireducens) ferric iron. The resulting current will be collected and used to demonstrate the functionality of the battery.
The reduction and oxidation reaction will be self-substaining. This process is further aided by the genetic modification of R. palustris. As a photosynthetic prokaryote, R. palustris generates glucose readily. We intend to share this glucose with R. ferrireducens by inserting a passive glucose transporter into the cells of R. palustris.
|
|
|
|
|
Who we are
|
Advisors:
- Dirk VandePol
- Edith Kaeuper
Undergrads:
- Salvatore Alioto
- Emily Bedard
- Angela Brock
- Nick Candau
- Bowen Hunter
- Dan Ingwersen
- Gregory Sean Kielian
- Tram Lai
- Bertram Lee
- Robert Lodes
- Colby Sandate
- Elizaveta Sergeeva
- Ben Walls
- Renhao Zhang
|
Dirk Vandepol
Program Advisor
|
Colby Sandate
Team Member
Club President
|
Dan Ingwersen
Team Member
|
Leeza Sergeeva
Team Member
UCSF Team Alumna
|
|
|
|
|
Where we're from
The city by the bay, a center of beauty and biotechnology for Northern California.
"
