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Who we are

Undergraduate Team Members
Ho Wing Chan Bioengineering	Dongwook Choe Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology	Alexander Darling Biochemistry	Felix Ekness Bioengineering
Washington george fu.jpg Bill Fu Major	Tianyuan (George) Fu Biochemistry and Computer Science	Max Gelb High School - Future Computer Science Major	Xindi Guo Biochemistry and ACMS
Daniel Hadidi Neurobiology	Matthew Harger Biochemistry	Jeremy Housekeeper Chemistry	Teresa Jiang Biochemistry
Rada Jumroon Biochemistry	Kevin Kwong Biochemistry	Gabriel Licina Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology	Austin Moon Molecular Biochemistry
Erik Murphy Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology	Rashmi Ravichandran Microbiology	Nikole Robertson Biochemistry	Mathew Scott Physiological Biology and Biochemistry
Sarah Seo Microbiology and Biochemistry	Amanda Tanadinata Biochemistry	Ruihong Wang Chemical Engineering	Pin-Jou (Ponny) Wu Biochemistry
Yina Xu Pharmacology	Washington lei zheng.jpg Lei Zheng Biochemistry	David Zong Bioengineering

Advisors
Mike Certo Molecular Biology	Aaron Chevalier Major	William Conrad Pharmacology	Nick Bolten Electrical Engineering
Benjamin Groves Major	Washington mo li.jpg Mo Li Major	Aaron Miller Genome Sciences	Jeremy Mills Biochemistry
Alex Rosenberg Major	Chris Takahashi Electrical Engineering

Who did what

Winter quarter marked the beginning of participation for this year's team for both students and advisors alike. Advisors helped students to familiarize themselves with the synthetic biology world by recommending published scientific papers and weekly meetings. In addition, students also familiarized themselves with previous years Washington iGEM projects and gave presentations about their respective projects. During spring quarter, the team progressed into giving another round of presentations in which published scientific papers concerning synthetic biology were the topics of interest. Students, being well prepared and familiarized with the inner workings of iGEM and synthetic biology, then brainstormed and chose our projects with the guidance of our advisors.

The work documented here in this wiki and on our presentation is entirely the work of iGEM students - it does not represent the project of any host lab, advisor, or instructor participating in iGEM.

Protein Degradation: After producing promising results, in future directions:

Flu Binders:

Optogenetics:

iGEM Toolkits Michael Brasino, Rashmi Ravichandran, and Alicia Wong worked on extracting and BioBricking the essential genes for magnetosomes, made the fusion proteins, and did the experimental measurements. They also expanded on work that was started by UW iGEM students in 2010, by constructing more Gibson-friendly plasmid backbones and characterizing the Gibson-assembly efficiencies of pSB and pGA plasmids.

Community Outreach

Faculty
David Baker Biochemistry	Washington Klavins.jpg Eric Klavins Electrical Engineering	Georg Seelig Electrical Engineering

Collaborators and Support
Oil Sands Leadership Initiative Funding to support travel and registration costs	UW Biochemistry Lab space	Washington Anaspec.gif Anaspec Peptide discounts	Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Registration support	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lab materials and supplies

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-The teams were assembled during our winter quarter. During this term, we went around to classes and had weekly meetings to introduce students to synthetic biology through a series of guest lectures. During the spring, students participated in brainstorming projects related to the sponsoring Faculty advisors' labs (Baker and Klavins) and came up with the project they wanted to carry out. Students also planned and participated in community outreach events where we taught the local public about synthetic biology. Over the summer, students completed all of the experimental work, but worked closely with both graduate students and faculty advisors to plan the most pertinent experiments and make the most of our limited time.
+Winter quarter marked the beginning of participation for this year's team for both students and advisors alike. Advisors helped students to familiarize themselves with the synthetic biology world by recommending published scientific papers and weekly meetings. In addition, students also familiarized themselves with previous years Washington iGEM projects and gave presentations about their respective projects. During spring quarter, the team progressed into giving another round of presentations in which published scientific papers concerning synthetic biology were the topics of interest. Students, being well prepared and familiarized with the inner workings of iGEM and synthetic biology, then brainstormed and chose our projects with the guidance of our advisors.
 The work documented here in this wiki and on our presentation is entirely the work of iGEM students - it does not represent the project of any host lab, advisor, or instructor participating in iGEM.
-Diesel Production
+Protein Degradation:
 After producing promising results, in future directions:
-Casey Ager, Austin Moon, and Seth Sagulo worked on Enzyme Localization via Direct Fusion and Zinc Finger Fusion methods.
-Juhye An, Elaine Lai, and Benjamin Mo worked on Decarbonylase Redesign
+Flu Binders:
-Marika Cheng and Justin De Leon worked on Alternative Chassis
-Chris Choe and David Zong worked on Alternate Aldehyde Production
+Optogenetics:
-Matthew Harger worked on Branched Alkanes Production
-Matthew Harger and Lei Zheng worked on System Optimization
-Emily Yang worked on modelling the alkane production pathway.
-Gluten Destruction
-Sydney Gordon, Daniel Hadidi, Liz Stanley, Angus Toland, Sarah Wolf, and Sean Wu designed, built, and tested Kumamolisin-As and over 100 mutants to combat gluten intolerance by increasing the activity on the PQLP antigenic peptide.
 iGEM Toolkits
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 Community Outreach
-Cindy Wu headed and organized all iGEM 2011 Community Outreach events.