Team:Washington/Team/Members

From 2011.igem.org

Who we are

Undergraduate Team Members

Casey Ager Major	Juhye An Biochemistry	Michael Brasino Materials Science and Engineering	Marika Cheng Major
Chris Choe Major	Justin De Leon Major	Sydney Gordon Major	Daniel Hadidi Neurobiology
Matthew Harger Major	Elaine Lai Microbiology	Benjamin Mo Major	Austin Moon Major
Rashmi Ravichandran Microbiology	Seth Sagulo Major	Liz Stanley Microbiology, Chemistry	Angus Toland Major
Sarah Wolf Major	SauShun (Alicia)Wong Materials Science and Engineering	Cindy Wu Major	Sean Wu Major
Lei Zheng Major	David Zong Major

Advisors

Aaron Chevalier Bioengineering	Rob Egbert Electrical Engineering	Chris Eiben Biochemistry	Jeremy Mills Biochemistry
Justin Siegel Biomolecular Structure and Design	Matt Smith Molecular and Cellular Biology	Ingrid Swanson Microbiology

Faculty

David Baker Biochemistry

Eric Klavins Electrical Engineering

Collaborators and Support

Oil Sand Leadership Initiative Funding to support Travel and Registration Costs

Washington UniversitySeal.gif Biochemistry Lab space

Washington Anaspec.gif Anaspec Peptide Discounts

Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy Registration Support

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Lab materials and supplies

Who did what

The teams were assembled during our winter quarter. During this term we went around to classes and had weekly meetings to introduce students to synthetic biology through a series of guest lectures. During the spring, students participated in brainstorming projects related to the sponsoring Faculty advisors labs (Baker and Klavins) and came up with the project they wanted to carry out. Students also planned and partcipated in community outreach events where we taught our community about synthetic biology. Over the summer, students completed all of the experimental work, but worked closely with both graduate students and faculty advisors to plan the most pertinent experiments and make the most of our limited time.

Alkanes Production

After producing promising results, in future directions

Casey Ager, Austin Moon, and Seth Sagulo worked on Enzyme Localization via Direct Fusion and Zinc Finger Fusion methods.

Juhye An, Elaine Lai, and Benjamin Mo worked on Decarbonylase Redesign

Marika Cheng and Justin De Leon worked on Alternative Chassis

Chris Choe and David Zong worked on Alternate Aldehyde Production

Matthew Harger worked on Branched Alkanes Production

Matthew Harger and Lei Zheng worked on System Optimization

Gluten Degradation

Sydney Gordon, Daniel Hadidi, Liz Stanley, Angus Toland, Sarah Wolf, and Sean Wu designed, built, and tested Kumamolisin-As and over 100 mutants to combat gluten intolerance by increasing the activity on the PQLP antigenic peptide.

iGEM Toolkits

Michael Brasino, Rashmi Ravichandran, and Alicia Wong

Community Outreach

Cindy Wu headed and organized all iGEM 2011 Community Outreach events.