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Welcome to our page! Our team is comprised of 6 dedicated individuals: 4 undergraduates and 2 advisors. This will be the third year that iGEM @ UC Davis participates in the competition. We are hard at work and are looking forward towards the completion of our project. Stay tuned for the upcoming results!
This summer, we started with the goal of building a novel circuit encoding the function of spatial oscillator that would push the bounds of what had been done before, both scientifically and in the context of device complexity. Our device required the assembly of >30 individual parts and had 7 promoters - both on the very high end of what has been demonstrated in most projects. Clearly, this was ambitious and was going to test how robust the immature technologies we use in synthetic really are. We anticipated challenges and got them in spades. . . One of the most interesting, in which we invested a lot of effort tracking down, was the discovery that the commonly used part BBa_C0051 (the cI lambda phage repressor) could, in the right context have promoter activity. We have spent some time tracking the source of this activity and generated a construct that corrects this error . . .for more, click here!
Hello!
Welcome to the UCD iGEM 2011 page!
We're currently constructing this site so stay tuned for more info!
See our notebook page for daily entries.
-Tim
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