Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico

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You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples HERE.
You MUST have the following information on your wiki:
  • a team description
  • project description
  • safety information (did your team take a safety training course? were you supervised in the lab?)
  • team attribution (who did what part of your project?)
You may also wish to add other page such as:
  • lab notebook
  • sponsor information
  • other information
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Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)

Team CIDEB-UANL_Mexico


Official Team Profile

Contents

Team

Tell us about your team, your school!


Project Description

The detection of various components in a safe and rapid way has been a challenge in modern science. Biosensors using genetic circuits in bacteria have been made, which allows knowing whether the sensed component is present or not. Nowadays, it is known that certain levels of heavy metals in water can be dangerous for living organisms. For that reason, it is important to know the concentration of these metals, but the techniques for detection and quantification are complex and require expensive equipments.

And, that brings us to the aim of our project; the aim is to make a study model for quantifying heavy metals with fluorescent colors, depending on their levels of concentration. In order to do so, a biosensor will be made, based on three different fluorescent reporters. Additionally, this design could be improved in order to achieve higher sensitivity by adding more modules to the circuit. This design, as we mentioned previously, will be easier, faster, and cheaper than the other alternative, which is expensive, and complex.

This genetic circuit could be applied for building biosensors to detect the presence of heavy metals and semi-quantify them. This design will recognize the component that it is meant to be analyzed and give an approximation of the quantity. With the previous information, it could be useful to know if certain concentration is toxic for living organisms.

Notebook

Show us how you spent your days.


Results/Conclusions

What did you achieve over the course of your semester?


Safety

What safety precautions did your team take? Did you take a safety training course? Were you supervised at all times in the lab?


Attributions

Who worked on what?


Human Practices

What impact does/will your project have on the public?


Fun!

What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?


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