Bloom Busters Project Contributions

In our project, our team had the goal of genetically engineering Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to increase its ability to sequester phosphorous, and to increase its uptake of nitrate by converting nitrous oxide to dinitrogen gas.

To accomplish this, our team developed 3 new simple parts. We utilized additional simple parts from the Chlamdydomonas reinhardtii MoClo toolkit (Crozet et al. 2016), which have been documented by other iGEM Teams, along with a simple part for the Psr1 gene from the Alison Baker Lab (Slocombe et al. 2023). This led to the generation of 8 new composite parts. A brief description of these parts is in the table below.

For more information, including a description of which simple parts were used to assemble each composite part, please visit the part’s Registry page!