Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai/Achievements

Achievements

Project

  1. Constructed a red/green light cultivation system successfully.
  2. Achieved functional expression of halorhodopsin controlled by Pdark and PcpcG2.
  3. Designed a biodesalination process and proved its effectiveness.

Modeling

  1. Build an ODEs model to describe the concentration of chloridion variation in the molecule level.
  2. Simulate the model and plot the result by MATLAB.

Human practices

Resource water study The desalination industry Cell-water separation consideration

  1. Single use and bio-mass utilization
  2. Long-term use and collaboration with Nanjing-China team

Public and government

  1. Post section in Shanghai science museum
  2. Coloring several maps using government data to address water shortage problem in China
  3. Discussing with experts the requirements to get government approval

Communication with other iGEM team

  1. Nanjing-China:
    1. collaborate study relating to seawater restoration
    2. immbolization cooperation
  2. Communication with 11 teams in small scale meet-up or visits to each other.
  3. Join 2 issues of Newsletter as writer and participate in 3 surveys online posted on iGEM community