The third ever Washington University iGEM team is composed of six undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors majoring in Biology, Biochemistry, and Biomedical Engineering. With the help of two mentors, Dr. Joe Jez and Dr. Gautam Dantas, and several graduate students (Brian Landry, Bert Berla, and Larry Page), the team decided to synthesize the components of saffron in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis.
The WashU 2012 iGEM team consists of six undergraduate students majoring in biochemistry, biomedical engineering and biology, along with an amazing team of graduate students and professors that advised us along the way. Without them, the project would have been unattainable. We would like to thank them and everyone else who helped us realize this project.
The team was assembled during the beginning of the spring semester. Through weekly meetings where we brainstormed project ideas with the advisors, we eventually arrived at a concrete idea. Then, we started working on our gene. During the summer, we did all of the lab work required for our project while still meeting with our advisors weekly to talk over the nitty-gritty of the project, such as protocols and basic premises behind our project.
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