Team:British Columbia/Wetlabteam

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==Team Members==
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Image:Gurpal.jpg|Gurpal Bisra: My contribution to our wet lab component was to alter a yeast cell to contain the mutant erg20-2 gene instead of the wild type erg20 gene. Erg20 produces ~25% GPP and ~75% FPP molecules in the mevalonate biochemical pathway. GPP is essential to our project because it is the molecule that combines with a synthase in order to yield a monoterpene; where as, FPP does not develop monoterpenes. Since our goal is to mass produce monoterpenes, this mutation is key for our project to be successful. Additionally, I am assisting Samuel Wu to develop plasmids that contain the K6R-HMG2 and IDI1 genes. Their function is to alter the mevalonate pathway to ultimately produce more GPP as well.
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Image:Gurpal.jpg|Gurpal Bisra: My contribution to our wet lab component was to alter a yeast cell to contain the mutant erg20-2 gene instead of the wild type erg20 gene. I am making yeast bio-bricks for the erg20 and erg20-2 genes. Additionally, I am assisting Samuel Wu to develop plasmids that contain the K6R-HMG2 and IDI1 genes.  
Image:Daisy.jpg|Daisy Ji
Image:Daisy.jpg|Daisy Ji

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