Team:Brown/template/bg

From 2010.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
__NOTOC__
 +
{{:Team:Brown/header}}
<html>
<html>
-
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.8.1/build/base/base-min.css">
+
<div id="menu_wrap">
-
<style type="text/css">
+
</html>
 +
{{:Team:Brown/menu|contentpage={{{contentpage|home}}} }}
 +
<html>
 +
</div>
 +
<div id="content_wrap">
 +
<div id="content_table">
 +
    <div id="top_row">&nbsp;</div>
 +
    <div class="main_row">
 +
        <div id="main_td">
-
body {
+
        <style>
-
background-color: #001e25;
+
        #panel_mask {
-
background-position: top center;
+
            width: 925px;
-
background-attachment: scroll;
+
            overflow:hidden; 
 +
            margin:0 auto; 
 +
        }
 +
        .page_panel {
 +
            float:left;
 +
            width: 925px;
 +
            padding-right:10px;
 +
        }
 +
        </style>
 +
 
 +
        <div id="panel_mask">
 +
        <!-- to load pages that are not in the main sliding pages -->
 +
        <div id="subpage_panel" style="display:hidden;"></div>
 +
        <div id="panel">
 +
        <!-- CONTENT STARTS HERE /-->
 +
 
 +
            <div id="page_home" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:Brown/pages/home}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
           
 +
            <div id="page_blog" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:Brown/pages/team}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
 
 +
            <div id="page_competition" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:Brown/pages/project}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
 
 +
            <div id="page_background" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:Brown/pages/background}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
 
 +
            <div id="page_project" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:TU_Delft/pages/project}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
 
 +
            <div id="page_education" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:TU_Delft/pages/education}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
           
 +
            <div id="page_sponsors" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:TU_Delft/pages/sponsors}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
           
 +
            <div id="page_press" class="page_panel">
 +
            </html>{{:Team:TU_Delft/pages/press}}<html>
 +
            </div>
 +
        <!-- CONTENT ENDS HERE /-->
 +
        </div>
 +
        </div>
 +
 
 +
        </div>
 +
    </div>
 +
    <div id="bottom_row">&nbsp;</div>
 +
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div id="footer_wrap"></html>
 +
{{:Team:TU_Delft/footer}}
 +
<html></div>
 +
</div>
 +
 
 +
<!-- CODE SECTION -->
 +
 
 +
<script type="text/javascript">
 +
 
 +
function isUndefined(x) { var u; return x === u; }
 +
 
 +
var activePage = "</html>{{{contentpage|home}}}<html>";
 +
var pageCache = {};
 +
 
 +
function setupTabButton(page) {
 +
  var btn= $(".menu_button_" + page);
 +
  btn.click(function(event) {
 +
    $.address.value(page);
 +
    return false;
 +
  });
 +
 
 +
  // setup hovering
 +
  var btnCssClassSelected = "menu_button_" + page + "_sel";
 +
  btn.hover(function() {
 +
    if (page != activePage)
 +
      btn.addClass(btnCssClassSelected);
 +
  }, function() {
 +
    if (page != activePage)
 +
      btn.removeClass(btnCssClassSelected);
 +
  });
 +
 
 +
  btn.addClass("button_pointer");
 +
  if (page == activePage)
 +
    btn.addClass("menu_button_"+activePage+"_sel");
}
}
-
</style>
+
// rewrite links to load with AJAX within the frame
 +
function rewriteLinks(elem) {
 +
// TODO: replace full links too (with "http://..")?
 +
  $("a[href^=/Team:TU_Delft/]", elem).each(function()
 +
  {
 +
      this.href = this.href.replace("Team:TU_Delft/", wgPageName+ "#/");
 +
  });
 +
}
 +
 
 +
var pages = [ "home", "blog", "competition", "background", "project", "press", "education", "sponsors" ];
 +
 
 +
function updatePageMaskHeight()
 +
{
 +
    var maxHeight = 0;
 +
    for(var i=0; i<pages.length;i++) {
 +
      var page=pages[i];
 +
 
 +
      var pgHeight = $("#page_"+page).height();
 +
      if(pgHeight > maxHeight) maxHeight = pgHeight;
 +
    }
 +
 
 +
//  $('#panel_mask').height(maxHeight);
 +
  // $('.page_panel').height(maxHeight);
 +
  $("#panel_mask").height(2000);
 +
}
 +
 
 +
// this runs when page is loaded
 +
$(function() {
 +
    for(var i=0; i<pages.length;i++) {
 +
      var page=pages[i];
 +
      setupTabButton(page);
 +
 
 +
      if(wgUserName != null) {
 +
        var editurl = wgServer+"/Team:TU_Delft/pages/"+page+"?action=edit";
 +
        $("#page_" + page + ">*:first").before($("<a href=\""+editurl+ "\">Edit " + page + "</a>"));
 +
      }
 +
    }
 +
    $(".page_panel").each(function() { rewriteLinks(this); });
 +
    updatePageMaskHeight();
 +
 
 +
    //Set the sub-panel width according to the #mask width (width of #mask and sub-panel must be same)
 +
    $('#panel .page_panel').width($('#panel_mask').width());
 +
 
 +
    //Calculate the total width - sum of all sub-panels width 
 +
    //Width is generated according to the width of #mask * total of sub-panels
 +
    $('#panel').width(parseInt($('#panel_mask').width() * $('#panel div').length));
 +
 
 +
    // instead of button click handler, all actions pass through the address bar so history works too
 +
    $.address.change(function(event) {
 +
      var page = event.path.substring(1);
 +
      if(page=='') page = activePage;
 +
 
 +
      $(".menu_button_" + activePage).removeClass("menu_button_" + activePage + "_sel");
 +
      activePage = page;
 +
 
 +
      if($.inArray(page, pages) < 0) {
 +
        // hide tab content, and load new page
 +
        var url = wgServer+"/Team:TU_Delft/"+page+"?action=render";
 +
 
 +
        $("#panel").fadeOut(200);
 +
 
 +
        $.get(url, function(data) {
 +
          $("#subpage_panel").html(data).fadeIn(200);
 +
          rewriteLinks($("#subpage_panel"));
 +
        });
 +
      } else {
 +
        $("#subpage_panel").fadeOut(200, function() {
 +
          $("#panel").fadeIn(200);
 +
        });
 +
 
 +
        // remove old page if any, show tab content
 +
        $(".menu_button_" + activePage).addClass("menu_button_" + activePage + "_sel");
 +
 
 +
        //Get the height of the sub-panel 
 +
        var panelheight = $("#page_" + page).height();
 +
 
 +
        //Scroll to the correct panel, the panel id is grabbed from the href attribute of the anchor 
 +
        $('#panel_mask').scrollTo("#page_" + page, 400);
 +
 
 +
        //Resize the height
 +
//        $('#panel_mask').animate({ 'height': panelheight }, { duration: 50 });
 +
      }
 +
  });
 +
 
 +
  $.trigger('postload');
 +
 
 +
});
 +
 
 +
</script>
 +
 
</html>
</html>

Revision as of 18:43, 13 July 2010

Team:Brown/header

 
Team:Brown/pages/home
Team:Brown/pages/team
Team:Brown/pages/project
Team:Brown/pages/background

Project Description

This year's TU Delft team will be working on the biological conversion of hydrocarbons in aqueous environments, e.g. biological degradation of oil particulates in oil sands tailing waters. The project addresses one of the more considerable challenges in this branch of industry. Addressing the issue through a biological means will require an interdisciplinary approach. The broad range of scientific fields to which we have been exposed throughout our studies will provide the knowledge and experience to formulate an efficient solution for this issue. Besides competing in iGEM, the team also wants to contribute to future research into oil utilization and create new possibilities for sustainable developments in the fossil fuel industry.

The members of the TU Delft team carry a broad range of multidisciplinary assets, but it should be noted that there is a large focus on wet lab work, due to the large number of students from Life Science and Technology. This study is collaboration of two top universities in the Netherlands, the Leiden University (molecular genetics and medicine) and the Technical University of Delft ((bio-)chemical and process engineering), combining fundamental research and applied sciences.

The basis of the 2010 TU Delft iGEM team's project is the generation of a biological chassis for the conversion of hydrocarbons. The conversion system will be implemented and characterized using the well-studied cellular environment of Escherichia coli, the workhorse for genetic and metabolic engineering. To tackle the important aspects faced when using biological systems for oil utilization, we are focusing on the following features:

  • Conversion of hydrocarbons

The aerobic alkane conversion pathways of medium and long chain (<C36) alkanes from Gordonia sp. TF6 and Geobacillus thermodenitrificans will be the basis of our parts. These pathways will be implemented using the BioBrick principle and characterized in detail with respect to single enzyme activities and affinity. Using these measurements the efficiency of different enzymes can easily be compared.

  • Hydrocarbon tolerance

Hydrocarbons are known to damage the cell membrane and some essential cell proteins. It was found that organisms which are naturally hydrocarbon tolerant produce chaperons and other proteins, which maintain the cellular activity. We will implement this type of hydrocarbon by generating the respective BioBricks.

  • Hydrocarbon solubility

An engineering challenge faced in oil bio-conversions is the low solubility of hydrophobic molecules in water. In order to overcome this mass‐transfer limitation we will clone two genes encoding for proteins with emulsifying properties. It is expected that these proteins will increase the solubility of hydrocarbons, which can be then converted more efficiently into potentially valuable products. Additionally, these emulsifiers are promising reagents for oil extraction from sands making the process cheaper and more sustainable.

  • Halotolerance

High salt concentrations, as can be found in tailing waters and other aqueous environments contaminated with oil, are toxic to many microorganisms. Our aim is to create a BioBrick which will facilitate cell growth at increased salt concentrations.

  • Genetic regulation

In order to have efficient cell growth, it is important to develop a system that activates gene expression at the optimal moment in time. An alkane sensing mechanism will be coupled to the 'in-house' catabolic repression system (crp) generating energy efficient cell growth under glucose conditions as well as produce enzymes for hydrocarbon degradation when needed.

  • Genome‐scale modeling

Modeling approaches are used to explore the possibilities of valuable product formation from hydrocarbons. The model will be based on the MetaCyc pathway database, which contains pathway information of many sequenced organisms, covering a broad range of products such as biofuels, bioplastics and other fine chemicals.

The tasks of the team are roughly be divided into two groups. One group will deal mainly with the aspects related to the modeling and design of the synthetic system. A second group of students will mainly carry out the wet lab work.

Also the ethical and safety issues posed by synthetic biology will be considered. The synthesis of a DNA strand representing a set of genes arbitrarily chosen by the designer, and its insertion in a living cell will, in general, provide the host cell, with new emerging properties that were not present in the original organisms. This poses several challenges in terms of safety and ethics that need to be addressed within the project.

We also presented our project in more detail for a number of faculty members, you can find this presentation here.

All registered BioBricks will be published here:

<groupparts>iGEM010 TU_Delft</groupparts>

Planning

The project can be divided into three phases:

The team members get to know each other, get a working knowledge of each other’s topic and start generating ideas.

  • Design phase

The students define the biological design which they want to carry out, together with the project specifications.

  • Production phase

The (wet-lab) realization of the system and the evaluation of its performance.

During the brainstorming phase, the involvement of the students will be part-time. There are weekly meeting to exchange ideas and discuss proposals. For the remaining 6 months covered by the actual project (May-October), the involvement of the team is full time.

Press

For more information about our project, feel free to contact us!

TU Delft iGEM Team

Phone: +31 15 278 1625

Email: info@igemtudelft.nl

Address

KLUYVERLABORATORIUM VOOR BIOTECHNOLOGIE

Julianalaan 67

2628 BC Delft

THE NETHERLANDS

Press Contact

Nadine Bongaerts - nadine@igemtudelft.nl +31 (0) 6 22 87 92 83

Pieter van Boheemen - pieter@igemtudelft.nl +31 (0) 6 14 15 32 98

Media Coverage

  • [http://www.delta.tudelft.nl/nl/archief/artikel/green-solution-for-oil-spills/21312 Green Solution for Oil Spills] - TU Delta - 2010-05-27
  • [http://headlines.nos.nl/forum.php/list_messages/20585 TU heeft groene oplossing] - NOS Headlines Radio 3FM - 2010-06-16
 

Retrieved from "http://2010.igem.org/Team:Brown/template/bg"