{"id":1050,"date":"2011-08-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-415\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:28","slug":"innovation-anthology-415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/08\/09\/innovation-anthology-415\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #415:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 415.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Naphthenic acids<\/strong> are a toxic compound found in oil sands tailings ponds. <\/p>\n<p> Students at the University of Calgary are genetically modifying two organisms to build a <strong>biosensor<\/strong> for naphthenic acids.    <\/p>\n<p> And they hope to win big with this project at the <strong>2011 International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition<\/strong> in Boston. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Emily Hicks<\/strong> is a 4th year student in biomedical sciences.  Her team is using  bacteria and microalgae.   <\/p>\n<p><strong> EMILY HICKS:<\/strong><em> It&rsquo;s a bit of challenge because microalgae is a new organism that we&rsquo;re working with. And so, in e.coli, if we want to put different DNA sequences into it, we just transform it.  It&rsquo;s easy.  Everyone does it.   Whereas microalgae it&rsquo;s a little bit more challenging because we don&rsquo;t really have all those tools. And then the second stage is that we have to have a reporter, so we need  something that will give us some output to tell us that we&rsquo;ve got the DNA  in there.  So with e.coli we have tons of reporters that are easy to use.  But in microalgae. we&rsquo;ve had to play around with the ones we get the best reading, because the one we wanted to use actually had really high background levels in the organism just due to the way the organism works.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p> According to Emily Hicks, if successful, the biosensor will provide an inexpensive probe to test for concentrations of naphthenic acids in oil sands tailings.   <\/p>\n<p><em> Thanks today to<strong> Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/> I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\">Alberta Innovates Technology Futures<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Alberta Innovates launched its consolidation on November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et-waypoint et_pb_image et_pb_animation_off et_pb_image_5 et_always_center_on_mobile et_pb_image_sticky et-animated\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/albertainnovates.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tech_futures_v2_icon.png\" \/> \t\t\t \t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>780-450-5111<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertatechfutures.ca\/\">albertatechfutures.ca<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>250 Karl Clark Road,<br \/>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada<br \/>T6N 1E4<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/AI_Tech_RGB_smallForWeb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02011-08-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at the University of Calgary are genetically modifying two organisms to build a <strong>biosensor<\/strong> to test for <strong>naphthenic acids<\/strong> in oil sands tailings.   And they hope to win big with this project at the 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition in Boston.  <strong>Emily Hicks<\/strong> is a 4th year student in biomedical sciences.  Her team is using  bacteria and microalgae.  <em>(Alberta Innovates Technology Futures)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,31,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta-innovates-technology-futures","category-life-sciences","category-oil-sands","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4733,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/4733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}