Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Ann Arbor Groundwater

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Who are we?

We are the Michigan Synthetic Biology Team (MSBT), a student-led research team that designs and executes a synthetic biology research project every year that targets a problem in our local, regional, or even global community. In the fall, representatives of our team travel to Paris to present our research at the iGEM competition alongside hundreds of other undergraduate, postgraduate, and even high school teams. 

This year's project

There is currently an unsafe level of the carcinogen 1,4-dioxane in our very own Ann Arbor groundwater, and it poses a great threat to the Ann Arbor community and environment. This year, our team engineered a bacterium capable of breaking down this pollutant, and sought to use it to design a bioreactor that could be implemented in the Ann Arbor water treatment cycle.

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MSBT is entirely funded by grants and donations from the University, other organizations, and the community, and we believe in giving all of our members an equitable opportunity to engage in the entire research process. Your donations directly support our team's research projects and help us target issues relevant to our communities. Moreover, your support helps our members improve as students and scientists.


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