Team:Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

Our Project (in a sentence)...We are engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae to be voltage-sensitive at the transcriptional level.
Our Team...We are a team of 9 undergraduate students deeply interested in synthetic biology. We hail from a variety of disciplines including, chemistry, biology and engineering. We’re a fresh new team with varying levels of experience united by our passion for science.

Our Sponsors

• JHU Biology, esp. Dr. Beverly Wendland
• JHU Biomedical Engineering, esp. Dr. Timothy McVeigh and Gail Spence
• JHU Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• JHU Alumni Foundation
• JHU Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
• The Hodson Trust
• JHU Integrated Imaging Center, esp. Dr. Richard McCarty and Erin Pryce
• JHU Undergraduate Admissions, esp. Maggie Kennedy
• JHU BAG
• JHU HiT Center

Major Accomplishments

• Extended previous work in voltage sensitivity (Valencia 2009) in S. cerevisiae
• Constructed of 7 voltage-activated UASs of varying sensitivity
• [ONGOING] Submitted 1 fully characterized voltage-activated promoter