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Welcome to our webpage, here you can find a lot of information about us & our project

Our project Abstract

The RENBO or THERMOGENIC RESPONSE NUTRIENT BIOSENSOR

To develop flexible and better sensors for environmental, agricultural and engineering applications are the aims of the UTP-Panama Team “SynBio Engineering Tool Kit”. In this way we work with Nitrate Biosensor (PyeaR - GFP composite) developed by Team BCCS-Bristol 2010, which expresses fluorescent signals upon nutrient detection, producing a high-resolution map of arable land. To achieve this goal we use the collateral effect of the AOX enzyme (Alternative oxidase) mainly designed to generate heat in response to a cold-shock, using the hybB promoter. This effect increases the bacteria growth at temperatures below 20°C. Finally we design a prototype device with a better cold shock promoter (CspA promoter) developed by UNAM-CINVESTAV Team in 2010, in order to give our E. coli a “Intelligent Coat", which means that not to only survive a cold-shock but to also still been able to keep up with his duties due to improve their expression mechanism at low temperature.

Our University:

Universidad Tecnologica de Panamá

Web Site: http://www.utp.ac.pa/
For information about us or our project contact us:
Email: igem.utppanama@utp.ac.pa

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+<div align="justify"> To develop flexible and better sensors for environmental, agricultural and engineering applications are the aims of the UTP-Panama Team “''SynBio Engineering Tool Kit''”. In this way we work with Nitrate Biosensor (PyeaR - GFP composite) developed by Team BCCS-Bristol 2010, which expresses fluorescent signals upon nutrient detection, producing a high-resolution map of arable land.  To achieve this goal we use the collateral effect of the AOX enzyme (Alternative oxidase) mainly designed to generate heat in response to a cold-shock, using the hybB promoter. This effect increases the bacteria growth at temperatures below 20°C.
+Finally we design a prototype device with a better cold shock promoter (CspA promoter) developed by UNAM-CINVESTAV Team in 2010, in order to give our E. coli a “Intelligent Coat", which means that not to only survive a cold-shock but to also still been able to keep up with his duties due to improve their expression mechanism at low temperature. </div>
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+== Our University: ==
+====Universidad Tecnologica de Panamá====
+Web Site: http://www.utp.ac.pa/ <br>
+'''''For  information about us or our project contact us:'''''<br>
+Email: igem.utppanama@utp.ac.pa
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-The UTP-Panama Team is decided to broke this paradigm in the Republic of Panama. To accomplish this goal the UTP-Panama Team is working develop of  we called " SynBio Engineering Tool Kit", the develop of engineering tools from biology sources.
-At this moment,  Engineering's groups are designing projects in differents fields, using the biological devices to improve and solve traditional engineering problems.
-In this sense the proposed works (looking for) are:
-; Agricultural & Environmental Engineering
-* Nitrogen Area: introduce chemotaxis to BioBrick BBa_K381001 develop by the Bristol 2010 iGEM Team, to make a dynamics Nitrate-nitrite sensor. The main goal of this area (future) is to express LegHemoglobine and other nitrogen fixation molecules in E.Coli.
-* Phosphates sensoring: BBa_K116401 & BBa_K116404.
-* pH sensoring: Taiwan Back to Kidney pH sensors BBa_K116001 & BBa_K116002
-; Mechanical & Material Sciences Engineering
-*Biopolimer Area: continue the Virgina (2008), Utah State (2009) and Insa-Lyon 2010 develop in the field of Bioplastic-Biopolymers through expresion fo PHA, PHA, and PHC.
-*Heat Production: uses and improvement of Gatech Biobrick BBa_K410000, in mechanical engineering.
-;Electrical Engineering:
-*Biosensoring
-**Light Sensitive proteins: work with  BBa_K191003
-* Creation of electrical Circuits
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