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Der aktuelle Abstract lautet: The TU Munich iGEM Team engineers Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as baker's yeast, in order to contribute to a new generation of functional foods with nutritionally valuable ingredients. More specifically, the team currently designs and produces BioBricks™ to introduce the metabolic pathways for the substances Xanthohumol (anticancerogenic), Limonene (flavor of lime), Caffeine (CNS stimulant) and the protein Thaumatin (sweetener, E957). To achieve this goal the team adapts a yeast shuttle vector (pYES2), uses a yeast integration vector for stable transfections, creates and characterizes constitutive, alcohol- and light-inducible promoter systems. Combining these BioBricks™ will enable the team to brew iGEM’s first SynBio Beer.

You can see our progress in our Labjournal

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-The topic of this year's project is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as baker's yeast. Our goal is to genetically modify this organism to biosynthetically produce nutritionally valuable ingredients, particularly those that are naturally produced by plants. This removes the necessity to extract these ingredients from costly resources. As exploratory example of use, we decided to produce a beer whose color, taste and ingredients can be selectively changed with the help of the modified yeast during the brewing process. In this framework we will introduce promoters, that are readily regulated by external stimuli and connected to a variety of known biological pathways into yeast. With our experiments we want to demonstrate how to pave new ways in the area of food and drink manufacturing, notably the traditional art of brewing.
+Der aktuelle Abstract lautet: The TU Munich iGEM Team engineers Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as baker's yeast, in order to contribute to a new generation of functional foods with nutritionally valuable ingredients. More specifically, the team currently designs and produces BioBricks™ to introduce the metabolic pathways for the substances Xanthohumol (anticancerogenic), Limonene (flavor of lime), Caffeine (CNS stimulant) and the protein Thaumatin (sweetener, E957). To achieve this goal the team adapts a yeast shuttle vector (pYES2), uses a yeast integration vector for stable transfections, creates and characterizes constitutive, alcohol- and light-inducible promoter systems. Combining these BioBricks™ will enable the team to brew iGEM’s first SynBio Beer.
-This approach smartly combines long-cherished traditions with molecular biotechnological tools. Hence our this year's motto is Tradition Unified with Modernity, just as in our university's name TUM.
 You can see our progress in our [[Team:TU_Munich/Labjournal|Labjournal]]