Team:Washington

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'' Current biofeuls are made up of compounds that have properties that make them not a perfect substitute for gasoline. A much better solution would be to use bacteria to produce alkanes, the main chemical found in gasoline. This system would allow for the production of net-carbon neutral gasoline from organisms that can directly or indirectly utilize carbon dioxide. One of the goals of our team is to optimize alkane production in ''E. coli'' as a model for alkane production in such organisms.
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A previous iGem team(Cambridge 2010) worked with luciferase, a protein from ''Vibrio'' that produces bioluminescence. This system has been shown to work well in ''E. coli'', but has not been used in brewer's yeast(''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''). We are attempting to port the luciferase system into yeast, both to improvew the engineering of yeasst using standardized parts, and to  take steps towards producing beer that glows( because glowing beer would be awesome).
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Revision as of 03:40, 16 July 2011


This is a template page. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples HERE.
You MUST have a team description page, a project abstract, a complete project description, a lab notebook, and a safety page. PLEASE keep all of your pages within your teams namespace.



You can write a background of your team here. Give us a background of your team, the members, etc. Or tell us more about something of your choosing.

Current biofeuls are made up of compounds that have properties that make them not a perfect substitute for gasoline. A much better solution would be to use bacteria to produce alkanes, the main chemical found in gasoline. This system would allow for the production of net-carbon neutral gasoline from organisms that can directly or indirectly utilize carbon dioxide. One of the goals of our team is to optimize alkane production in E. coli as a model for alkane production in such organisms.

A previous iGem team(Cambridge 2010) worked with luciferase, a protein from Vibrio that produces bioluminescence. This system has been shown to work well in E. coli, but has not been used in brewer's yeast(Saccharomyces cerevisiae). We are attempting to port the luciferase system into yeast, both to improvew the engineering of yeasst using standardized parts, and to take steps towards producing beer that glows( because glowing beer would be awesome).


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