Find out about the subgroups that make up the project.
Task: Genome integration of the ohaA-gene and optimization of the oxalate synthesis.
We worked on the plasmid contruction for our bacteria, cultivation experiments, the optimization of our oxalate production, and our own oxalate assay. Find out more about our work on the Project page.
Task: Investigation of the leaching process, its optimization and complex separation.
Chemistry is in its basics a science of experimentation and its proper refinement. It bodes a striving for understanding the reactions taking place on every scale and reaches out for turning the acquainted knowledge into practical use for developing new ideas which reshape our everyday life and improve our status and possibilities of research. Nothing else has been done by those of us who wanted to combine the disciplines of biotechnology and chemistry for improving the current method of the recycling of critical (raw) metals. We have directed our attention towards a very special of these metals, the so-called PGM’s. PGM is an abbreviation for Platin Group Metals and refers to a group of metals being crucial to catalysts. They are supposed to overall reduce dangerous emissions from vehicles. The recycling of the PGM’s is, given taken place at all, very expensive and takes a lot of time, as a lot of chemicals are involved. This results in dumping a considerable high percentage of PGM’s together with the broken and old catalysts in which they originally had been built. As each new problem demands a new and inventive solution, we wanted to elaborate a new and better method for recycling PGM’s. Our method is working without the use of expensive chemicals or exquisite equipment. Furthermore, it holds the potential to create a (continuous) working circle together with the realization of our biotechnological projects being fed on by the addition of further remains of shredded catalysts. Find out more about the chemistry part on our Project page.
Task: Sponsoring for iGem funding, PR work.
Our work mostly focuses on the promotion and the acquisition of our project.
Participating at the iGEM competition is very expensive/ has grown very expensive over the past years and our team faced that challenge by net-working with various institutions at the university related with Biology like the Stuttgarter Research Center for Systems Biology and with many (major) companies like Audi which all supported our vision with financial aid as well as with promoting our project further.
Additionally, we keep people constantly informed about all activities, successes and break-throughs on our Instagram channel and on this website.
Don't miss to also check out the work of the other teams. Enjoy.
Task: Wiki Coding, Data analysis and Modeling.
We conduct both energetic modeling of the complex to explore its coordination and kinetic modeling to create first a descriptive and further a predictive model. Additionally we coded this Wiki.
Task: Educate on synthetic biology, iGem to youth, families and science enthusiasts.
To introduce synthetic biology and our project we used the yearly Tag der Wissenschaft at the University of Stuttgart. A very broad audience was interested about our project, leaving with a new point of view. Further we visited schools to spark interest in synthetic biology to young people who are choosing their next steps. Find out more on our Education site.
