Presentation Year

2019

Depreciated Participant

Kayla TempletonChemistryUndergraduate Student,Dr. Jenny CappuccioChemistryFaculty,Azariah CoblentzChemistry

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Heavy metal contamination of soils and waterways due to industrial processes continues to be a problem in the United States. Recent reports indicate that microbial surface layers (S-layers) can bind and sequester heavy metals, thereby removing them from the environment. Our approach is to enhance this process for lead bioremediation. Through this study, C. vibrioides strains were morphologically characterized through transmission and scanning electron microscopy, and recombinant surface layer export was genetically verified. Using a fluorescence-based assay, we show that our engineered strains were 10% more effective in bioremediating lead than the wildtype in nanomolar concentrations.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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684

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