Jun 14, 2016
An ideal implementation of our genetic device is within a microbial fuel cell (MFC), which is a unit that generates energy by processing wastewater.
This energy can then be used for the desalination of water or as a sustainable power source. We desire to put E. coli that are more efficient and easily managed than existing microbes into these cells in an effort to generate larger amounts of clean electricity.
We are engineering two strains of E. coli: one to uptake phosphorus so as to prevent toxic algal growth in lakes and streams and another to express electrically conductive projections, known as nanowires, in order to generate energy from organic waste. By expressing these genes in E. coli - a model organism - we hope to provide a platform for further study in agriculture, the environment, and alternative energy.
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