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                    <p>Despite being under your feet and out of sight, sewers are extremely important components of urban infrastructure that help to keep the area safe from flooding and minimize the spread of water-borne disease. Nowadays, existing sewer networks are under increasing strain mainly as a result of population growth, increasing urbanization and even climate change. But it’s not just an increased usage of sewers which are beginning to challenge these infrastructural wonders. Human activity can, as per usual, be blamed. Life is like a sewer. You get out what you put into it and sometimes, it stinks. We have created monsters. We have created fatbergs.
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These large congealed masses composed of fat, oil, grease and non-biodegradable materials like wet wipes are beginning to wreck infrastructural havoc, causing thousands of blockages resulting, which the UK government spend millions clearing each year. Though the fatberg issue could be solved by simply changing everyday habits, we - the Warwick iGEM team - have begun to lay the foundations for a biological solution to this growing problem. </p>
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                  <p>Following weeks of consideration over a local or global issue to tackle, we were inspired by the work carried out by the 2014 Sheffield iGEM, who worked on the fatberg problem. We decided to build upon their foundational research and carry it forward to benefit society by using specific lipases suited to an environment like the sewage system. This includes the thermostable lipase A (TliA) from Pseudomonas fluorescens; a previous iGEM part utilised by Sheffield, as well as the Stuttgart and KAIST iGEM teams </p>
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                    <p>Our mission as Warwick iGEM 2019 is to attempt to tackle the growing fatberg crisis. We have implemented two key strategies to do this: preventing their formation through the education of the general public to increase awareness of these monstrous masses, explaining how simple changes in human behaviour can significantly reduce their formation. Secondly, we will utilise the power of synthetic biology to clone candidate lipases, derived from microorganisms living within fatbergs, into our E. coli carrier cells. The lipase activity of our clones will then be characterised using both a qualitative and quantitative assay of our own design, alongside experiments to establish the viability of our engineered bacteria in oil. </p>
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Revision as of 13:34, 19 October 2019

Descriptions

A Greasy Nightmare...

Despite being under your feet and out of sight, sewers are extremely important components of urban infrastructure that help to keep the area safe from flooding and minimize the spread of water-borne disease. Nowadays, existing sewer networks are under increasing strain mainly as a result of population growth, increasing urbanization and even climate change. But it’s not just an increased usage of sewers which are beginning to challenge these infrastructural wonders. Human activity can, as per usual, be blamed. Life is like a sewer. You get out what you put into it and sometimes, it stinks. We have created monsters. We have created fatbergs. These large congealed masses composed of fat, oil, grease and non-biodegradable materials like wet wipes are beginning to wreck infrastructural havoc, causing thousands of blockages resulting, which the UK government spend millions clearing each year. Though the fatberg issue could be solved by simply changing everyday habits, we - the Warwick iGEM team - have begun to lay the foundations for a biological solution to this growing problem.

Inspiration

Following weeks of consideration over a local or global issue to tackle, we were inspired by the work carried out by the 2014 Sheffield iGEM, who worked on the fatberg problem. We decided to build upon their foundational research and carry it forward to benefit society by using specific lipases suited to an environment like the sewage system. This includes the thermostable lipase A (TliA) from Pseudomonas fluorescens; a previous iGEM part utilised by Sheffield, as well as the Stuttgart and KAIST iGEM teams

Infatuation - The Guardian of The Sewers

Our mission as Warwick iGEM 2019 is to attempt to tackle the growing fatberg crisis. We have implemented two key strategies to do this: preventing their formation through the education of the general public to increase awareness of these monstrous masses, explaining how simple changes in human behaviour can significantly reduce their formation. Secondly, we will utilise the power of synthetic biology to clone candidate lipases, derived from microorganisms living within fatbergs, into our E. coli carrier cells. The lipase activity of our clones will then be characterised using both a qualitative and quantitative assay of our own design, alongside experiments to establish the viability of our engineered bacteria in oil.

Sponsors

wellcome trust
Qiagen
BBSRC
WISB
New England Biolabs
Science Facutly Grant
School of Life Sciences
Nanopore
IDT Sponsor
EPSRC Sponsor
Warwick Global Research
SnapGene
eppendorf
Twist Bioscience