How wonderful would it be, if you can see flowers in full glory throughout the year? If flowers bloom whenever you want, you could eat tasty fruits and see beautiful flowers any time. It is what we have been looking for, the technology to make flowers bloom. There is a plant hormone that enables us to realize this dream. The plant hormone, Florigen, controls and triggers flowering in plants. We will create Flower Fairy E.coli. This will make Florigen and transfer it into plant cells! This will enable us to make flowers bloom anytime!

Have you ever hoped for a faster experiment? We guess you have. In order to achieve a successful study, we have to experiment day by day. This is the case for iGEM, too. iGEMers tend to experiment on Escherichia.coli, and almost all experiments take a lot of time. Unless our guess is wrong, all scholars and iGEMers undergo hardships that make it seem impossible to complete their work by a deadline. Golden Gate assembly made up by Carola Engler, Romy Kandzia, Sylvestre Marillonnet enables us to construct genes faster than any other assembly methods. We will confirm this assembly method and will so some experiments to check how the number of promoters influences the strength of transcription.

This year, we implemented nine projects on "human practice".

Especially, we gave high priority to two programs, "Making iPhone app" and "Educational program"
We created an iPhone app named "iColi" which is a way to bring Japanese closer to synthetic biology. In addition, we carried out a lecture of synthetic biology and biochemistry at many places, Hibiya high school; Horikawa high school, Kyoto University, and so on. Our activities which we conduct this year actually help many people know synthetic biology and gene recombination.

Application

One of the main projects is to create an iPhone apps to help many Japanese know synthetic biology.

We set the project because some Japanese people seem to have a bad impression for gene recombination, and we want to modify this bias.

In addition, few Japanese people know what gene recombination is all about, so we would like to show them how wonderful recombination is.

Education

The second project is to introduce the synthetic biology to high school students, as we would like many high school students to participate in iGEM. This summer, we carried out lectures about gene recombination and biochemistry in "Seiryo festival" at Hibiya high school, furthermore we held a poster session in open campus of Kyoto University.

Due to the curriculum in our country, it is rather difficult for high school students to take part in iGEM undergraduate category, so we tell them about the HS division and support students who are interested in it. We hope that many japanese teams take part in the next iGEM HS division.

Other activities

• Kyoto University Academic day
  
• November Festival and Open Campus at Kyoto University
  
• Science agora
  
• Tie-up with Super Science High school
  
• Cooperation
  

You can see it at here.