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- | One of the major goals of synthetic biology is to apply engineering principles analogous to traditional engineering disciplines to genetic engineering. A way in which this is achieved is through the use of biobricks that allow for more rapid engineering of synthetic gene networks. These biobricks are often assembled and tested in a bacterial chassis however there remains a shortage of these biobricks optimized to work in eukaryotes. To this end, we are building several biobricks optimized to work in the model organism S. cerevisiae - a simple eukaryote as well as building a novel yeast chassis that will allow for the robust characterization of these biobricks. In addition, we are developing a new protocol that will greatly improve upon the existing assembly protocol for biobricks and allow for rapid integration into S. cerevisiae. | + | One of the major goals of synthetic biology is to apply engineering principles analogous to traditional engineering disciplines to genetic engineering. A way in which this is achieved is through the use of biobricks that allow for more rapid engineering of synthetic gene networks. These biobricks are often assembled and tested in a bacterial chassis however there remains a shortage of these biobricks optimized to work in eukaryotes. To this end, we are building several biobricks optimized to work in the model organism ''S. cerevisiae'' - a simple eukaryote as well as building a novel yeast chassis that will allow for the robust characterization of these biobricks. In addition, we are developing a new protocol that will greatly improve upon the existing assembly protocol for biobricks and allow for rapid integration into ''S. cerevisiae''. |
== Project Details== | == Project Details== |
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One of the major goals of synthetic biology is to apply engineering principles analogous to traditional engineering disciplines to genetic engineering. A way in which this is achieved is through the use of biobricks that allow for more rapid engineering of synthetic gene networks. These biobricks are often assembled and tested in a bacterial chassis however there remains a shortage of these biobricks optimized to work in eukaryotes. To this end, we are building several biobricks optimized to work in the model organism S. cerevisiae - a simple eukaryote as well as building a novel yeast chassis that will allow for the robust characterization of these biobricks. In addition, we are developing a new protocol that will greatly improve upon the existing assembly protocol for biobricks and allow for rapid integration into S. cerevisiae.