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From 2010.igem.org

Team Overview

We are a group of eight enthusiastic, self motivated and more importantly creative students from different discipline. We have Biotechnologists, Bioinformaticians and Engineers in our group. Moreover we are a highly composite group with different ethnic backgrounds bound by a common desire to achieve.

All of us are students from Uppsala university interested in the field of Synthetic Biology. Our group consists of students from different programs.The mixing of international master students of the program in applied biotechnology, Bioinformatics and the Swedish engineering program in molecular biotechnology gives our team a broad base of knowledge and skills in all sciences that compose the field of synthetic biology.

Uppsala University has a long history of making valuable contributions in biochemistry and biotechnology. There are many research groups at the university working with projects related to Synthetic Biology. Our team is supported by the department of Photochemistry & Molecular Science (Fotomol).

The iGEM team of Uppsala Sweden in 2009 worked on biofuel production through direct synthesis from sunlight.