Team:ASU/Awards

Awards
Awards
Bronze
Competition deliverables
We have completed all of the required deliverables for the 2021 iGEM competition. You are currently looking at our wiki, our presentation video is submitted to the video universe, and our judging form was completed.
Attributions We are proud of the work of each team member and grateful to all of those who helped us along the way. Check out who did what on our Attributions page and meet each of the team members on our Team page.
Project description Our project is outlined in our Project Description page, where we address the impetus behind our project, the goals we set for ourselves, and the work we did to accomplish them.
Contribution We have created many new basic and composite parts computationally and have cloned them in the laboratory. They are displayed on our Parts page and more information can be found in the registry. We also tested the arsenic bioremediation capabilities of all of our successfully transformed colonies, improved an existing part, and learned and spent time troubleshooting two methods of transformation. Learn about our accomplishments on our Contributions page.
Silver
Engineering success The process of designing, building, testing, learning, and integrating our learned changes into our original design was crucial in many aspects of our project. Laboratory work required numerous cycles of learning and optimization, as did the development and design of our filter. We go into greater depth in its role in our project on our Engineering Success page.
Collaboration Throughout the entirety of the project, we were part of a relatively large coalition of teams focusing on a project involving an autotrophic chassis. During our time with these teams, we presented our work, received feedback, met with experts and other teams doing similar work, traded protocols and advice, and helped develop a comprehensive guide to working with autotrophic organisms in synthetic biology. Our involvement in this partnership shaped our project for the better. Read more about our experience on our Collaboration page.
Human practices The eventual nature of our project is an implemented filtration system for use in communities lacking access to clean drinking water. As a direct result of that, our project very heavily integrated human practices in the form of outreach to experts and putting serious thought towards the ramifications of introducing a synthetic biology approach to a health centric issue. The work we did towards integrated human practices is hosted here.
Proposed implementation With similar thinking of human practices, we spent a great deal of time considering how exactly our recombinant organism would be of actual use in a realistic setting. In order to consider containment, biosafety, and efficacy, we met with experts and put ourselves in the positions of our proposed users. Follow our thought process and design considerations on our Proposed Implementation page.
Gold
Integrated human practices The eventual nature of our project is an implemented filtration system for use in communities lacking access to clean drinking water. As a direct result of that, our project very heavily integrated human practices in the form of outreach to experts and putting serious thought towards the ramifications of introducing a synthetic biology approach to a health centric issue. The work we did towards integrated human practices is hosted here.
Improvement of an existing part One of our parts, metallothionein, is an improvement of RHIT’s 2019 iGEM team’s part BBa_K3275000. Their original part is human metallothionein protein, and we have codon optimized it for use in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Proof of concept We prototyped and designed a filtration system that could be implemented in a community-based solution for the removal of arsenic from water. The process of designing the filter and considering its place as a real solution is detailed on our Proof of Concept page.