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     <p> This year, the 2018 UCSC iGEM team is partnering with a group of undergraduate students from the Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Guanajuato (ITESG) in Mexico. ITESG approached the UCSC team in early spring with a proposal to partner  together with a goal to reduce waste in farm communities. Their project is to use dairy waste from local farms,  specifically whey, and convert the protein into sugar. Whey is currently a major source of waste from the production of cheese, milk, and other dairy products. Extracting sugar from the excess whey allows researchers to utilize waste for other functions.  
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     <p> This year, the 2018 UCSC iGEM team partnered with a team of undergraduate students from the Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Guanajuato (ITESG) in Mexico. ITESG approached the UCSC team in early spring to collaborate on a project that would reduce waste in farm communities.  
 
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         This year's UCSC iGEM team aims to build off of the ITESG project and use the lactose created as a food source for our progesterone producing yeast. We hope that through this collaboration, we can provide communities the opportunity to reduce and utilize unwanted waste.
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         They developed methods for isolating lactose from whey, a dairy waste product. We will use the upcycled dairy waste as a low cost growth media for \textit{Y. lipolytica str. PoPPY}. Because whey can be obtained from any milk-producing animal, it is widely available throughout the world. Using the methods that ITESG developed to isolate lactose, anyone with access to a milk-producing animal can create the growth media for PoPPY.  
 
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Revision as of 22:09, 4 September 2018

Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Guanajuato



Reduction of Dairy Waste in Local Communities through the Extraction of Sugar from Whey

This year, the 2018 UCSC iGEM team partnered with a team of undergraduate students from the Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Guanajuato (ITESG) in Mexico. ITESG approached the UCSC team in early spring to collaborate on a project that would reduce waste in farm communities.
They developed methods for isolating lactose from whey, a dairy waste product. We will use the upcycled dairy waste as a low cost growth media for \textit{Y. lipolytica str. PoPPY}. Because whey can be obtained from any milk-producing animal, it is widely available throughout the world. Using the methods that ITESG developed to isolate lactose, anyone with access to a milk-producing animal can create the growth media for PoPPY.

Reduccion de los Desechos Lácteos en las Comunidades Locales a Través de la Extracción de Azúcar de Suero de Leche

Este año, el equipo de UCSC iGEM se esta asociando con un grupo de estudiantes de pregrado el Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Guanajuato (ITESG) en mexico. ITESG se acercó al equipo de UCSC con una propuesta para asociarse junto con un objetivo para reducir el desperdicio en las comunidades agrícolas. Su proyecto es usar desechos lácteos de granjas locales, específicamente suero, y convierte la proteína en azúcar. El suero es actualmente una importante fuente de residuos durante la producción de queso, leche y otros productos lácteos. La extracción de azúcar del exceso de suero permite que las investigaciones utilicen los desechos para otros funciones.
El equipo de UCSC iGEM de este año pretende construir a partir del proyecto ITESG y usar la lactosa creada como fuente de alimento para nuestro Progesterona produciendo levadura. Esperamos que a través de esta colaboración, podamos brindar a las comunidades la oportunidad para reducir y utilizar los desechos no deseados.