Team:NYC Wetware

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Our Team

Our iGEM squadron consists of students from the Dalton School, Hunter College, Columbia University, Yeshiva University, NYU-Poly, and Cornell University. Our advisors (and donated workspace) reside at Weill Cornell Medical College on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Briefly, over the summer we will be investigating the genetic mechanisms for ionizing radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans through genome sequencing, RNA-sequencing experiments, and high throughput cloning.

Our Project

We're placing genes from Deinococcus radiodurans into E. coli and upregulating some of E. coli's own genes. We targeted genes associated with radioresistance in the hopes of conferring radioresistance upon radiovulnerable E. coli. Future applications for the control of cellular resistance to radiation include bioremediation of radioactive waste, highly effective stem cell transplants, and terraforming Mars.

Our Approach

We've been following the literature on three approaches to radioresisitance:
1. DNA Repair - Dr John Battista's work has focused on the DNA repair proteins of D. rad as the responsible parties for it extraordinary radioresistance.

2. Iron-Manganaese Ratios

3. Oxidative Damage Repair

Yeshiva University Wetlab Team Members

Jake Friedman

David Sweet

Yossi Steinberger

Yair Saperstein


Weill Cornell Medical Grad Students + Faculty Advisors

Russell Durrett, Christopher Mason PhD - Institute for Computational Biology

Alex Hansler, Steven Gross PhD - Department of Pharmacology

Sponsors

  • Illumina
  • Agilent
  • Science House
  • Quartzy
  • NY SynBio
  • Integrated DNA Technologies



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