Wiki Highlights

• Read our project description and summary on our Project page: more details on how team members completed work for the three sections of our project are on Design, Synthesize, and Test pages, respectively.

• Results of all parts of our project (including our biobricks) are located on our Results page, along with an Acknowledgments section.

• Human practices can be found on our Human Practices page.

• Please be sure to stop by our poster during the poster session with any questions.

Accomplishments

Experimental Results:

✓ Researched zinc finger proteins and choose 6 novel, clinically relevant target sequences

✓ Generated 55,000 zinc finger protein sequences using bioinformatics

✓ Used three recently developed technologies together for the first time: a foundational advance ✓ Expressed those 55,000 sequences in E.coli, with a sub-library for each target

✓ Created a genomic one-hybrid selection system sensitive enough to detect one in a million hits

✓ Found up to 15 novel zinc finger proteins

Biobricks and Protocols:

✓ Submitted 5 Biobricks to the registry, including our one-hybrid selection strain ✓ Created several chassis for our Biobricks, including our one-hybrid selection strain ✓ Used and shared our easy-to-follow protocols '''✓''' Made protocols, Biobricks, and source code freely available, so that others can adapt them for other projects

Human Practices

✓ Interviewed zinc finger researchers Dr. Keith Joung and Dr. George Church ✓ Researched intellectual property and how it applies to zinc finger proteins

✓ Created a timeline and case study of zinc finger intellectual property ✓ Handed out IP pamphlets and chassis data sheets at our poster presentation