Together, the Synthetic Biology students developed a groundbreaking project proposal tackling mercury pollution through innovative bioengineering. Their solution uses nature-based bacterial biofilms with curli proteins and mutant merR genes to effectively capture mercury from contaminated water - a sustainable alternative to traditional remediation methods.
This is the third year that student teams from the UCL MRes Synthetic Biology degree have competed in GoGec and achieved awards.
Well done, team MercuryGuard!
