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The iGEM HQ Example team is a fictitious team that was formed to help illustrate how to use different aspects of the iGEM 2007 registration website and wiki, including how to officially add students to your team roster and to provide an example of a prototypical project description. Eventually we would like to present an entire Example team set of wiki pages which other teams could use as a template for their pages.

Inspired by the [http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006/Blurb MIT iGEM 2006] team's Wintergreen- and Banana-scent generating devices, our goal is to produce a vanillin-generating device by making biobrick-standard basic parts out of several genes that produce proteins that work together to make vanillin from ferulic acid. We are in the process of mutating the genes, which we have obtained from several generous [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=17437627 Italian researchers], to conform to the biobrick standard and assembling them into larger composite protein-generating parts (see for an example). We will send our finished parts to the Registry of Standard Biological Parts for future distribution. One of the most exciting ramifications of our project is the prospect of engineering a completely novel cell-to-cell signaling system using our vanillin-generating device and the the Valencia iGEM 2006 team's synthetic [http://partsregistry.org/Part:BBa_J58105 vanillin receptor device]. We hope to pursue this as a project for the iGEM 2008 competition.

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