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From 2011.igem.org

Team Grinnell

Who we are

Grinnell College

Grinnell College is a small, liberal arts school located in the beautiful and fun small town of Grinnell, IA.

Advisor:

• Lisa Bowers : Lisa is currently an assistant professor of Biology at Grinnell College teaching courses in Molecular Biology and Microbiology. She was a Postdoctoral fellow from 2007-10 at the University of California - Berkeley in the Dept. of Plant and Microbiology. She received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Dept. of Microbiology.

Undergrads:

• Alex Aaring: Alex just finished his sophomore year at Grinnell College as a Biological Chemistry major. He originally hails from Eugene, OR.

• Nora Kostow: Nora is a third year Biology major from New York, NY. She is interested in Genetics and Molecular Biology. She enjoys short bike rides, porches and cheesecake.

• Qimeng Gao: Qimeng will be a third year Biology major this coming fall. He is from Hangzhou, China.

What we did

We each worked on out own aspect of the project by working with a specific gene that would contribute to the overall goal.

Qimeng Gao: esp

Nora Kostow: dspB

Alex Aaring: rsaA

We will work as a group to test the expression of the proteins and the effect that our engineered C. crescentus has on biofilm formation and stability.