A song about iGEM and our love towards it from the Estonia_TUIT team 2022.

https://2022.igem.wiki/estonia-tuit/

Episode 1 of the ASU x QGEM podcast H2bio, featuring Dr. Brown. In this series of podcasts, we (the ASU and QGEM teams) have discussions with various professionals in the fields of water decontamination, synthetic biology, and bioethics speak to us about the different considerations that need to be made when solving water quality issues with bioremediation.

Speakers: Dr. Stephen Brown, interviewed by Priyati Sharma (ASU), Carol Lu (ASU), Avery Mooring (QGEM), and Kristen Di Stefano (QGEM)

Episode 4 of the ASU x QGEM podcast H2bio, featuring Dr. Sundaram. In this series of podcasts, we (the ASU and QGEM teams) have discussions with various professionals in the fields of water decontamination, synthetic biology, and bioethics speak to us about the different considerations that need to be made when solving water quality issues with bioremediation.

Speakers: Dr. Lalitha Sundaram, interviewed by Carol Lu (ASU) and Avery Mooring (QGEM)

Episode 3 of the ASU x QGEM podcast H2bio, featuring Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown. In this series of podcasts, we (the ASU and QGEM teams) have discussions with various professionals in the fields of water decontamination, synthetic biology, and bioethics speak to us about the different considerations that need to be made when solving water quality issues with bioremediation.

Speakers: Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, interviewed by Carol Lu (ASU)

Episode 2 of the ASU x QGEM podcast H2bio, featuring Dr. Varman. In this series of podcasts, we (the ASU and QGEM teams) have discussions with various professionals in the fields of water decontamination, synthetic biology, and bioethics speak to us about the different considerations that need to be made when solving water quality issues with bioremediation.

Speakers: Dr. Arul Varman, interviewed by Tohma Taniguchi (ASU), Priyati Sharma (ASU), and Avery Mooring (QGEM)

Arizona State University's high-tech filtration system that utilizes our strain of C. reinhardtii to remove arsenic as part of a total water treatment system.

While this design provides an investigation of possible uses of arsenic-uptaking algae, overall, it would be an incredibly expensive system. There are other water treatment technologies that are more accessible and practical. For our end users – Arizona residents with extreme arsenic levels in their water supplies–current technology would be more economical. After presenting this design, we moved on to a low-tech filter, which was designed after implementing the feedback of various stakeholders, limits the arsenic in the water supplies of livestock.

Filter Design: Katie Pascavis & Rishabh Guttal

A Low-Tech version of ASU iGEM's water filter. In contrast to the high-tech version, the low-tech filtration system is cheaper and less complicated in design due to fewer moving parts and fewer tasks it needs to complete. It is intended for farm or ranch livestock, who have a higher threshold of acceptable arsenic consumption than humans. As a result, the low-tech filter does not need to meet the strict design considerations that made the high-tech filter so expensive and complicated.

Filter Design: Katie Pascavis & Rishabh Guttal

An instructional video showing a specific technique of cellular transformation in c. reinhardtii using the glass bead transformation method. Multiple variations of this protocol exist in literature, however, this adapted version gave our team the most success (i.e. the highest number of successful transformations).

Protocol Written and Preformed by: Priyati Sharma, Gabriella Cerna, Tohma Taniguchi, & Reuven White

Check out our full project on our wiki, at https://2022.igem.wiki/asu/