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| - | The synthetic biology portion of our project has provided the undergraduate members of our team with a rare opportunity to work in the lab for an extended period of time. Many of us have gained important skills such as learning to use our time efficiently, planning the use of limited materials and organising experiments effectively. Due to these learning curves the project really kicked off about halfway through our allocated 10 weeks and has been gathering speed as our deadlines approach. | + | The synthetic biology portion of our project has provided the undergraduate members of our team with a rare opportunity to work in the lab for an extended period of time. Many of us have gained important skills such as learning to use our time efficiently, planning the use of limited materials and organising experiments effectively. <del>Due to these learning curves the project really kicked off about halfway through our allocated 10 weeks and has been gathering speed as our deadlines approach.</del> |
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
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Laboratory
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Introduction
The synthetic biology portion of our project has provided the undergraduate members of our team with a rare opportunity to work in the lab for an extended period of time. Many of us have gained important skills such as learning to use our time efficiently, planning the use of limited materials and organising experiments effectively. Due to these learning curves the project really kicked off about halfway through our allocated 10 weeks and has been gathering speed as our deadlines approach.
Overview
The lab work has focused on constructing two main biobricks - the bistable switch and the CAI-1 sender.
The bistable switch
The CAI-1 sender
This biobrick is essential to our project. CAI-1, the cholera-specific auto inducing molecule, can switch off the production of cholera toxin by V. cholerae when it is present in high concentrations. To make this biobrick the gene respon
