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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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+== Our project Abstract ==
+'''The RENBO''' or '''THE'''RMOGENIC '''RE'''SPONSE '''N'''UTRIENT '''B'''I'''O'''SENSOR
+<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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-|Traditional engineering fields such as electrical, mechanical, civil, agricultural, etc., have been working for the last two centuries separately from biological developments (life sciences). The UTP-Panama team has decided to break this paradigm in the Republic of Panama. To accomplish this goal, the UTP-Panama Team is working in the development of what we call a "SynBio Engineering Tool Kit", the construction of engineering tools, obtained from biological resources. At this moment, engineering groups are designing projects in different fields, using biological devices to improve and solve traditional engineering issues.
-In this sense the proposed lines are:
-; Agricultural, Food & Civil-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 (in the future) is to express LegHemoglobine and other nitrogen fixation molecules in E.Coli.
-* Phosphates sensing: BBa_K116401 & BBa_K116404.
-* pH sensing: Taiwan BacToKidney pH sensors BBa_K116001 & BBa_K116002.
-; Mechanical and Material Sciences Engineering:
-*Biopolimer area: continue the Virgina (2008), Utah State (2009) and Insa-Lyon 2010 develop in the field of bioplastic-biopolymers through expression genes for PHA, PHA, and PHC.
-*Heat Production: uses and improvement of Gatech 2010, Biobrick BBa_K410000, in mechanical engineering.
-;Electrical & Computational Engineering:
-*Biosensing: Light Sensitive proteins,  work with BBa_K191003.
-* Creation of Bioelectrical & Bioelectronics circuits.
-* Modeling of Biological Systems
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