Team:Carnegie_Mellon

Introduction: Motivation

We seek to develop a BioBrick that will allow researchers in the field of synthetic biology to accurately measure translational efficiency, and transcriptional strength.

We believe that we can use Spinach as a biosensor to reflect these metrics in vivo, rather than in vitro, which has previously proven to be very costly and impractical.

We will characterize the relationship between genetic expression of Spinach (upstream), translational efficiency, and transcriptional strength.

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A false-colour SEM of MicroMaize cells.

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We have also been continuing the work of our 2012 team in engineering Escherichia coli to be awesome. Here is a link to awesomeness (WHO).

In the pursuit of our project, as well as the biological aspects, we:

considered aspects of scale-up, including the ethical, legal and social implications of our potential final product, MicroMaize,
programmed a new piece of software for use in metabolic modelling,
developed and tested a number of new techniques to make the process of creating BioBricks^TM that little bit easier,
collaborated with the University of Guelph team, sharing carotenoid synthesis genes, flux modulators, and gram positive plasmids.