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<html><p><b>With the help of Ms. Anne Byford, the Gaston Day School iGEM team, consisting of students from the 9th to 12th grades in high school, have set out with the goal of developing an organism that will detect the presence of iron pollution in water. We are also proud to say that we are the only highschool iGEM team on the western hemisphere.</p></b>
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=About iGEM=
 
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The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method.</p>
 
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<p>iGEM began in January of 2003 with a month-long course during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP). The students designed biological systems to make cells blink. This design course grew to a summer competition with 5 teams in 2004, 13 teams in 2005 - the first year that the competition grew internationally, 32 teams in 2006, 54 teams in 2007, and 84 teams in 2008. Projects ranged from banana and wintergreen smelling bacteria, to an arsenic biosensor, to Bactoblood, and buoyant bacteria.</p>
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<p>This year, we expect 120 teams with over 1200 participants from countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the US to participate in the competition. They will specify, design, build, and test simple biological systems made from standard, interchangeable biological parts. Teams will present their projects at the iGEM Championship Jamboree in November 2009. </p>
 
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<p>Fore more information please visit <a href="http://www.igem.org">www.igem.org</a>. </p>
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<p><h1>Synthetic Biology... huh?</h1></p>
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<p>The new field of <a href="http://syntheticbiology.org/">Synthetic Biology</a> was first recognized in 2003. It can be defined as:</P>
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<p>A) the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems, and</p>
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'''Consisting of 9th through 12th graders, our team bases itself out of Gaston Day School, a preK-through 12 school in Gastonia, North Carolina. With the guidance of Ms. Anne Byford we enter our second year in the iGEM competition. for this year we have two primary goals:'''
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<p>B) the re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes. </p>
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**Create an organism that will effectively sense the presence of iron in water sources.
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'''                          We have two primary goals for this year’s competition. First, we plan to produce an iron sensitive reporter which indicates elevated levels of iron. This will be done be done by combining an iron sensitive promoter with a constitutive RFP reporter. In addition to achieving this first reporter, we are using the parts submitted by the Cambridge team last year and use them in place of the RFP gene. Our second, and more important, goal is to create techniques and procedures for the common high school laboratory that can replicate the results from the more advanced research laboratories of universities.'''
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Our Team

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Consisting of 9th through 12th graders, our team bases itself out of Gaston Day School, a preK-through 12 school in Gastonia, North Carolina. With the guidance of Ms. Anne Byford we enter our second year in the iGEM competition. for this year we have two primary goals:

    • Create an organism that will effectively sense the presence of iron in water sources.
    • Adapt techniques from advanced synthetic biology to the high school environment.


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Our Project

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We have two primary goals for this year’s competition. First, we plan to produce an iron sensitive reporter which indicates elevated levels of iron. This will be done be done by combining an iron sensitive promoter with a constitutive RFP reporter. In addition to achieving this first reporter, we are using the parts submitted by the Cambridge team last year and use them in place of the RFP gene. Our second, and more important, goal is to create techniques and procedures for the common high school laboratory that can replicate the results from the more advanced research laboratories of universities.


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