Our team, TPR_China, consists of students from several high schools, several team advisers and academic mentors. Our team members come from different cities in China and United States. The diversity makes our team unique in culture and broad in knowledge base.
Project
Hope to know new methods to contain the locust problem? Click this link to see the unique project of our team and to know more about the locust master.
Results
Successfully constructed engineering bacteria in to produce nitrilase with enough enzyme activity.
Judging
Why do we deserve metals, honors, and awards? Why are we excellent? We hope to help judges on evaluating our project.
Part
We have interesting part and we want to share them with you. Parts including several Sequences of nitrilases and plasmids constructed are applied by our team, including originals and new parts improved and collected based on the originals.
Human Practices
Besides working in the lab and conducing research, we also pay attention to human practices in order to raise social awareness of synthetic biology and advocate our projects and solutions.
Lab
This section includes notebook, general protocols, as well as lab safety during the process of experiments.
Locust plague has been one of the devastating disasters to humans and the environment. Both chemical and biological pesticides were widely used, but because of the rapid movement and unpredictability of locust swarms, these methods are costly and cause serious environmental problems. We designed a rapidly deployable locust attraction scheme, the core of which is to synthesis specific locust aggregation pheromone 4-Vinylanisole to attract locusts and prepare for further rapid and effective eradication in the attraction area. Furthermore, an engineered bacteria which can degrade phenylacetonitrile was successfully created, avoiding its interference to the trapping effect. Through synthesis of 4-Vinylanisole and degradation of Phenylacetonitrile, locusts are “attracted” together and the site-specific control of locust swarms is realized. Our project provides a more environmentally friendly and greener way to kill locusts in the future.
