Engineering yeast for heavy metal waste remediation

The global rate of waste production has consistently outpaced the world's ability to manage and remediate it. Specifically, global consumption of raw materials, unrenewable energy sources, and disposal of electronic goods have contaminated water sources with heavy metals causing enviornmental damage and public health concerns. Despite the urgent need to contain and remove metals from the environment, there still does not exist robust and complete remediation technologies. Physicochemical technologies like chemical precipitation, absorption, and ion-exchange lack the specificity for metal capture, produce their own secondary-waste in the form of chemical byproducts or sludge, and have a high cost barrier requiring development of dedicated infrastructure and technical expertise. Instead, this work investigates biologically-derived strategies for managing waste, technologies also known as bioremediation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Sun, George L.(George Le-Le)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Angela M. Belcher.

• Biological Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124184

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/124184