Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Team

From 2011.igem.org

(Difference between revisions)
 
(17 intermediate revisions not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
-
<!-- *** What falls between these lines is the Alert Box!  You can remove it from your pages once you have read and understood the alert *** -->
 
-
 
<html>
<html>
-
<div id="box" style="width: 700px; margin-left: 137px; padding: 5px; border: 3px solid #000; background-color: #fe2b33;">
+
<head>
-
<div id="template" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: large; color: #f6f6f6; padding: 5px;">
+
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
-
This is a template page. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
+
<title>Team</title>
 +
<meta name="viewport" content="width = 1219, minimum-scale = 0.25, maximum-scale = 1.60">
 +
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Freeway 5 Express 5.6.1">
 +
<style type="text/css">
 +
<!--
 +
body { margin:0px; background-color:#fff; height:100% }
 +
html { height:100% }
 +
img { margin:0px; border-style:none }
 +
button { margin:0px; border-style:none; padding:0px; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:top }
 +
p:first-child { margin-top:0px }
 +
table { empty-cells:hide }
 +
.f-sp { font-size:1px; visibility:hidden }
 +
.f-lp { margin-bottom:0px }
 +
.f-fp { margin-top:0px }
 +
.f-x1 {  }
 +
.f-x2 {  }
 +
.f-x3 {  }
 +
em { font-style:italic }
 +
h1 { font-size:18px }
 +
h1:first-child { margin-top:0px }
 +
strong { font-weight:bold }
 +
.style36 { color:#f8fa53; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:50px; text-align:right }
 +
.style34 { color:#fff; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12px; text-align:right }
 +
.style19 { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:18px; text-align:center }
 +
.style5 { color:#000; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-align:justify }
 +
.style21 { color:#000; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:18px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-align:justify }
 +
.style11 { color:#000; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px }
 +
.style15 { font-size:14px }
 +
.style6 { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; text-align:justify }
 +
.style3 { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px }
 +
.style14 { color:#000; font-size:20px }
 +
.style18 { color:#000 }
 +
.style2 { font-size:20px }
 +
.style10 { color:#000 }
 +
-->
 +
</style>
 +
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
 +
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="css/ie6.css">
 +
<![endif]-->
 +
<script src="Resources/FW_Object.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 +
</head>
 +
<body>
 +
<div id="PageDiv" style="position:relative; min-height:100%">
 +
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=961>
 +
<colgroup>
 +
<col width=960>
 +
<col width=1>
 +
</colgroup>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=113 bgcolor="#0082ef"><p class="style36"><strong>Tokyo-NokoGen 2011</strong></p>
 +
<p class="style34 f-lp">Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology</p>
 +
</td>
 +
<td height=113></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr class="f-sp">
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=960 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td height=6><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=1 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
</table>
 +
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=962>
 +
<colgroup>
 +
<col width=6>
 +
<col width=239>
 +
<col width=73>
 +
<col width=288>
 +
<col width=312>
 +
<col width=43>
 +
<col width=1>
 +
</colgroup>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=357 rowspan=4></td>
 +
<td height=357 rowspan=4 bgcolor="#cdcdcd"><p class="style3">&nbsp;</p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Home</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Team"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Team</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/memebers"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Members</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Project"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Project: EcoLion</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Parts"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">BioBricks</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/notebook"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Notebook</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/protocols"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Protocols</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/attribution"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Attribution</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/safety"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Safety</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
<p class="style3 f-lp"><strong><span class="style14"><a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/sponsors"><span class="style18" style="text-decoration:underline">Sponsors</span></a></span></strong></p>
 +
</td>
 +
<td height=1 colspan=4></td>
 +
<td height=1></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=28 colspan=2></td>
 +
<td height=26 colspan=2 style="border:solid #000 1px"><p class="style19 f-lp"><a href="https://igem.org/Team.cgi?id=519">Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011 official team profile</a></p>
 +
</td>
 +
<td height=28></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=5 colspan=4></td>
 +
<td height=5></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=323></td>
 +
<td height=450 colspan=2 rowspan=2><img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2011/f/fa/Nokgen_team.jpg" border=0 width=600 height=450 alt="Nokgenteam" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td height=450 rowspan=2></td>
 +
<td height=323></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=127 colspan=3></td>
 +
<td height=127></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr class="f-sp">
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=6 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=239 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=73 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=288 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=312 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=43 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td height=6><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=1 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
</table>
 +
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=961>
 +
<colgroup>
 +
<col width=254>
 +
<col width=706>
 +
<col width=1>
 +
</colgroup>
 +
<tr valign=top>
 +
<td height=355></td>
 +
<td height=355><p class="style5"> We are the Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011, a Japanese team from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. 10 undergraduates and 2 graduates have been joining the project in this year. All members belong to the Department of Biotechnology and Life Science of TUAT. Our team name stands for the name of our university (東京農工大学), in Japanese. </p>
 +
<p class="style21"><span class="style11"> </span><span class="style15">Tokyo-NoKoGen has participated in iGEM since 2009, making our broad knowlegde of biotechnology to use in synthetic biology. NoKoGen had worked on the </span><em><span class="style15">E. coli</span></em><span class="style15"> auto protein synthesizer designated &quot;ESCAPES&quot; in 2009 and the EcoTanker in 2010. With contribusions for iGEM and synthetic biology, our teams got a bronze and a gold medal in 2009 and 2010, respectively.</span></p>
 +
<p class="style21"><span class="style15"> In this year, Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011 produce EcoLion, the </span><em><span class="style15">E. coli</span></em><span class="style15"> collecting heavy metal ions. The EcoLion works for bioremediation and recovery of heavy metals such as cadmium and arsenic. The EcoLion can be differenciated from other team's previous projects aiming at collecting heavy metals using </span><em><span class="style15">E. coli</span></em><span class="style15">. Our EcoLion transport heavy metal ions into its cell and capture the ions using metallothionein. Then the captured heavy metals are transferred into a bacterial microcompartment (BMC) and concentrated in it. BMCs are very atractive protein structures that function for localization particular small molesules and proteins, especially enzymes. The combination of a BMC and a metallothionein fused to locallization-tag peptide would make it possible to accumulate more amount of heavy metals in E. coli and concetrate the collected metals, thus you can collect much more heavy metals using the EcoLion.</span></p>
 +
<p class="style6 f-lp"> In the same time of having fun for our iGEM projects, we had many discussions on the synthetic biology and biosafety. We hope our EcoLion project contribute to expand the potential of synthetic biology for the future. </p>
 +
</td>
 +
<td height=355></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
<tr class="f-sp">
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=254 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=706 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
<td height=1><img src="Resources/_clear.gif" border=0 width=1 height=1 alt="" style="float:left"></td>
 +
</tr>
 +
</table>
</div>
</div>
-
<div id="instructions" style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal; font-size: small; color: #f6f6f6; padding: 5px;">
+
</body>
-
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 <a href="https://2008.igem.org/Help:Template/Examples">HERE</a>.
+
-
</div>
+
-
<div id="warning" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; font-size: small; color: #f6f6f6; padding: 5px;">
+
-
You <strong>MUST</strong> have a team description page, a project abstract, a complete project description, a lab notebook, and a safety page.  PLEASE keep all of your pages within your teams namespace. 
+
-
</div>
+
-
</div>
+
-
</html>
+
-
 
+
-
<!-- *** End of the alert box *** -->
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
-
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+
-
  <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
+
-
   
+
-
    <meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 3.0.4" />
+
-
    <meta name="iWeb-Build" content="local-build-20110823" />
+
-
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
+
-
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=700" />
+
-
    <title>About Me</title>
+
-
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,print" href="About_Me_files/About_Me.css" />
+
-
    <!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen,print' href='About_Me_files/About_MeIE.css'/><![endif]-->
+
-
    <!--[if gte IE 8]><link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='screen,print' href='Media/IE8.css'/><![endif]-->
+
-
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/iWebSite.js"></script>
+
-
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/Widgets/SharedResources/WidgetCommon.js"></script>
+
-
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/Widgets/Navbar/navbar.js"></script>
+
-
    <script type="text/javascript" src="About_Me_files/About_Me.js"></script>
+
-
  </head>
+
-
  <body style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0pt; " onload="onPageLoad();" onunload="onPageUnload();">
+
-
    <div style="text-align: center; ">
+
-
      <div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; word-wrap: break-word;  background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; width: 700px; " id="body_content">
+
-
        <div style="margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 0; " id="nav_layer">
+
-
          <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>
+
-
          <div class="com-apple-iweb-widget-navbar flowDefining" id="widget0" style="margin-left: 35px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1.00; position: relative; width: 630px; z-index: 1; ">
+
-
   
+
-
            <div id="widget0-navbar" class="navbar">
+
-
 
+
-
     
+
-
              <div id="widget0-bg" class="navbar-bg">
+
-
 
+
-
       
+
-
                <ul id="widget0-navbar-list" class="navbar-list">
+
-
<li></li>
+
-
</ul>
+
-
               
+
-
     
+
-
</div>
+
-
             
+
-
   
+
-
</div>
+
-
          </div>
+
-
          <script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--
+
-
new NavBar('widget0', 'Scripts/Widgets/Navbar', 'Scripts/Widgets/SharedResources', '.', {"path-to-root": "", "navbar-css": ".navbar {\n\tfont-family: Arial, sans-serif;\n\tfont-size: 1em;\n\tcolor: #666;\n\tmargin: 9px 0px 6px 0px;\n\tline-height: 30px;\n}\n\n.navbar-bg {\n\ttext-align: center;\n}\n\n.navbar-bg ul {\n\tlist-style: none;\n\tmargin: 0px;\n\tpadding: 0px;\n}\n\n\nli {\n\tlist-style-type: none;\n\tdisplay: inline;\n\tpadding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;\n}\n\n\nli a {\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n\tcolor: #666;\n}\n\nli a:visited {\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n\tcolor: #666;\n}\n\nli a:hover\r{\r\n \tcolor: #463C3C;\n\ttext-decoration: none;\r}\n\n\nli.current-page a\r{\r\t color: #463C3C;\n\ttext-decoration: none;\n\tfont-weight: bold;\r\r}", "current-page-GUID": "92BD1B5C-8677-4970-A132-985341EF21F0", "isCollectionPage": "NO"});
+
-
//--><!]]></script>
+
-
          <div style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="spacer"> </div>
+
-
        </div>
+
-
        <div style="height: 73px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 10; " id="header_layer">
+
-
          <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>
+
-
          <div id="id1" style="height: 50px; left: 35px; position: absolute; top: 23px; width: 630px; z-index: 1; " class="style_SkipStroke shape-with-text">
+
-
            <div class="text-content style_External_630_50" style="padding: 0px; ">
+
-
              <div class="style">
+
-
                <p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Header">About Me</p>
+
-
              </div>
+
-
            </div>
+
-
          </div>
+
-
         
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
          <div style="height: 1px; width: 630px;  height: 1px; left: 35px; position: absolute; top: 3px; width: 630px; z-index: 1; " class="tinyText">
+
-
            <div style="position: relative; width: 630px; ">
+
-
              <img src="About_Me_files/shapeimage_1.jpg" alt="" style="height: 1px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 630px; " />
+
-
            </div>
+
-
          </div>
+
-
        </div>
+
-
        <div style="margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 5; " id="body_layer">
+
-
          <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>
+
-
          <div style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px; " class="tinyText"> </div>
+
-
          <div style="margin-left: 275px; margin-top: 437px; position: relative; width: 390px; z-index: 1; " class="style_SkipStroke_1 shape-with-text flowDefining">
+
-
            <div class="text-content style_External_390_256" style="padding: 0px; ">
+
-
              <div class="style">
+
-
                <p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Body">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ligula suspendisse nulla pretium, rhoncus tempor placerat fermentum, enim integer ad vestibulum volutpat. Nisl rhoncus turpis est, vel elit, congue wisi enim nunc ultricies sit, magna tincidunt. Maecenas aliquam maecenas ligula nostra, accumsan taciti. Sociis mauris in integer, a dolor netus non dui aliquet, sagittis felis sodales, dolor sociis mauris, vel eu libero cras. Interdum at. Eget habitasse elementum est, ipsum purus pede porttitor class, ut adipiscing, aliquet sed auctor, imperdiet arcu aliquam maecenas ligula nostra tempor fermentum. Ligula suspendisse nulla pretium, rhoncus tempor placerat.</p>
+
-
              </div>
+
-
              <div style="height: 3px; line-height: 3px; " class="tinyText"> </div>
+
-
            </div>
+
-
          </div>
+
-
         
+
-
 
+
-
 
+
-
          <div id="id2" style="height: 32px; left: 275px; position: absolute; top: 413px; width: 390px; z-index: 1; " class="style_SkipStroke_2 shape-with-text">
+
-
            <div class="text-content graphic_shape_layout_style_default_External_390_32" style="padding: 0px; ">
+
-
              <div class="graphic_shape_layout_style_default">
+
-
                <p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Title">Rasellus hendrerit pulvinar nibh</p>
+
-
              </div>
+
-
            </div>
+
-
          </div>
+
-
          <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="spacer"> </div>
+
-
        </div>
+
-
        <div style="height: 150px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative; width: 700px; z-index: 15; " id="footer_layer">
+
-
          <div style="height: 0px; line-height: 0px; " class="bumper"> </div>
+
-
          <a href="http://apple.com/mac" title="http://apple.com/mac"><img src="About_Me_files/mwmac.png" alt="Made on a Mac" style="border: none; height: 50px; left: 280px; opacity: 0.35; position: absolute; top: 81px; width: 139px; z-index: 1; " id="id3" />
+
-
 
+
-
</a>
+
-
        </div>
+
-
      </div>
+
-
    </div>
+
-
  </body>
+
</html>
</html>
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
{|align="justify"
 
-
|You can write a background of your team here.  Give us a background of your team, the members, etc.  Or tell us more about something of your choosing.
 
-
|[[Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_logo.png|200px|right|frame]]
 
-
|-
 
-
|
 
-
''Tell us more about your project.  Give us background.  Use this is the abstract of your project.  Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)''
 
-
|[[Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_team.png|right|frame|Your team picture]]
 
-
|-
 
-
|
 
-
|align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen | Team Example]]
 
-
|}
 
-
 
-
 
-
<!--- The Mission, Experiments --->
 
-
 
-
{| style="color:#1b2c8a;background-color:#0c6;" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="1" bordercolor="#fff" width="62%" align="center"
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen|Home]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Team|Team]]
 
-
!align="center"|[https://igem.org/Team.cgi?year=2010&team_name=Tokyo-NoKoGen Official Team Profile]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Project|Project]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Parts|Parts Submitted to the Registry]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Modeling|Modeling]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Notebook|Notebook]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Safety|Safety]]
 
-
!align="center"|[[Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Attributions|Attributions]]
 
-
|}
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
[[File:[[File:Example.jpg]]]]== '''Who we are''' ==
 
-
{|border = "0"
 
-
|-
 
-
|rowspan="3"|
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
 
-
'''Advisors:'''
 
-
 
-
*''' Advisor 1''':    Mentor for all
 
-
*'''Advisor 2''':      Our favorite
 
-
*'''Grad Student 1''':    Our leader 
 
-
 
-
 
-
'''Undergrads:'''
 
-
 
-
*'''Student 1''':    Sleepyhead
 
-
*'''Student 2''':    Math nerd
 
-
*'''Student 3''':  Michael, Is going to save the world
 
-
*'''Student 4''':    Loves iGEM
 
-
*'''Student 5''':  A normal student... or(r) am I?
 
-
*'''Student 6''':  Table football fan
 
-
*'''Student 7''':
 
-
 
-
 
-
|
 
-
<gallery>
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_1.png|Team member 1
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_2.png|Team member 2
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_3.png|Team member 3
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_4.png|Team member 4
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_5.png|Team member 5
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_6.png|Team member 6
 
-
Image:Tokyo-NoKoGen_Team_member_7.png|Team member 7
 
-
</gallery>
 
-
|}
 
-
 
-
== '''What we did''' ==
 
-
 
-
(Provide proper attribution for all work)
 
-
 
-
 
-
'''TEST bold 110615'''
 
-
 
-
''test italic 110615''
 
-
 
-
 
-
'''tokyo nokogen'''
 
-
 
-
== Headline text ==
 
-
 
-
== test headline 110615 ==
 
-
 
-
 
-
<nowiki>
 
-
[[File:test110615.jpg|200px|thumb|left|enter an explaination]]
 
-
</nowiki>
 
-
 
-
== '''Where we're from''' ==
 

Latest revision as of 11:13, 5 October 2011

Team

Tokyo-NokoGen 2011

Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

 

Home

Team

Members

Project: EcoLion

BioBricks

Notebook

Protocols

Attribution

Safety

Sponsors

Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011 official team profile
Nokgenteam

We are the Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011, a Japanese team from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. 10 undergraduates and 2 graduates have been joining the project in this year. All members belong to the Department of Biotechnology and Life Science of TUAT. Our team name stands for the name of our university (東京農工大学), in Japanese.

Tokyo-NoKoGen has participated in iGEM since 2009, making our broad knowlegde of biotechnology to use in synthetic biology. NoKoGen had worked on the E. coli auto protein synthesizer designated "ESCAPES" in 2009 and the EcoTanker in 2010. With contribusions for iGEM and synthetic biology, our teams got a bronze and a gold medal in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

In this year, Tokyo-NoKoGen 2011 produce EcoLion, the E. coli collecting heavy metal ions. The EcoLion works for bioremediation and recovery of heavy metals such as cadmium and arsenic. The EcoLion can be differenciated from other team's previous projects aiming at collecting heavy metals using E. coli. Our EcoLion transport heavy metal ions into its cell and capture the ions using metallothionein. Then the captured heavy metals are transferred into a bacterial microcompartment (BMC) and concentrated in it. BMCs are very atractive protein structures that function for localization particular small molesules and proteins, especially enzymes. The combination of a BMC and a metallothionein fused to locallization-tag peptide would make it possible to accumulate more amount of heavy metals in E. coli and concetrate the collected metals, thus you can collect much more heavy metals using the EcoLion.

In the same time of having fun for our iGEM projects, we had many discussions on the synthetic biology and biosafety. We hope our EcoLion project contribute to expand the potential of synthetic biology for the future.

Retrieved from "http://2011.igem.org/Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen/Team"