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Contents 1 The Team! 2 The Project! 2.1 Bacterial counter 2.2 Self flavouring yoghurt 3 IP Talk 4 Links

The Team!

https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2007/0/0f/EdinburghTeam.jpg

This year the team is composed by 8 undergraduate/graduate students and three supervisors from three different schools within the University of Edinburgh (Biology, Engineering and Informatics).

Click here to see our ugly faces and to know more about us.

The Project!

Currently have two projects we are looking to take forward:

Bacterial counter

Project Goal

The aim is to produce output as a function of cell division. This can have the added potential of performing programmed cell death after a determined number of divisions. We also hope to further analyse cell division and recombinase mechanisms.

Self flavouring yoghurt

Project Goal

Engineer lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactobacillus acidiphilus to synthesise flavours and colours during yoghurt production. The idea is to stimulate the synthesis of a certain flavour and colour via the addition of an external stimulus. Due to the nature of the finished product we will be using promoters induced by the disaccharides maltose, trehalose and arabinose.

The project will be carried out in two steps. The first step is to generate the flavour and colour biosynthesis pathways in E. coli, before transferring them to Lactobacillus.

Targets		Operons Overview
Insert a biobrick into a non E. coli bacterium (Bacillus Sublillis) Engineer a pathway to make Vanillin
Potential Flavours Potential Colours Vanilla Orange Strawberry Red Lemon Yellow Orange Pink

IP Talk

Some members of the team presented a talk on Synthetic Biology and Intellectual Property to the Linux Users Group in Edinburgh

More information can be found at Edinburgh/Intellectual Property Talk

Links

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples "How to write in a Wiki" Manual]
[http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page Registry of Standard Biological Parts]
[http://openwetware.org/images/0/0d/Nature04342.pdf Foundations of Synthetic Biology Paper on Nature by Drew Endy]
[http://parts2.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Resources Link to the teaching material in the last year iGEM wiki]