Team:UC Chile

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Cyanolux & SpiderColi - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, iGEM 2012



Bactomithril

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Our goal is to generate new synthetic spider silk-like proteins that maintain or improve some of the properties of the spider silk and to efficiently create a new biomaterial for biomedical or construction applications.


Cyanolux

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Synthethic biology aims to quantitatively design, control and predict complex
spatiotemporal cell behavior, and to doing so by developing standarized and
engineerable genetic tools, nevertheless, to the date, no synthetic genetic
circuit has acomplished the task of exhibit a robust and constant (i.e phase
and amplitude in a week period) time oscillation. We want to take advantage
of more than 2000 million years of evolution of cyanobacteria to use their
endogenous circadian rythm to develop a time-controlled metabolic pathway.
As a proof of concept we want to engineer the first light-rechargeable
biological lamp: Synechocystis pcc6803 cells that emit light only by night
while recovering and producing the substrates in the day.








THE BEERDRAGON

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I like dragons :)
do you?