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Team:Alberta
From 2010.igem.org
ONLINE LAB MANUAL
Learn how to use the kit then, create and share your own designs!
The kit
Everything you need to put together a plasmid in an afternoon.
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
Genomikon: an Educational Toolkit for the Rapid Assembly of Plasmids
Synthetic biology is a new and expanding field that has potential applications in every aspect of society. Today, synthetic biology is underused because it is expensive and slow. The University of Alberta is developing a method of plasmid assembly that is modular, rapid, and inexpensive. We are in the process of designing an educational kit, Genomikon, which will enable anyone to construct a plasmid without special equipment. We will also provide a comprehensive lab manual to accomodate those new to the field.
To demonstrate the accessibility of our Genomikon toolkit, we will implement it in a high school laboratory setting. Genetic parts will be adapted into a system called BioBytes. This system will allow students to rationally create functional plasmids. The kit’s flexiblity will accomodate both predesigned experiments and new creative expressions. We believe that our kit could revolutionize science education. Our project not only seeks to optimize current procedures of synthetic biology but will also expose a new generation of students to this exciting field.
Our Achievements
1. Perfecting the Biobyte plasmid assembly technology
2. Modeled the effeciency of the Biobyte assembly method.
3. Creating a teaching kit for high schools assembling synthetic plasmids compatible with the most basic lab equipment
4. Creating an online interactive lab manual and teaching tool
Biobytes 2.0
Continually developing the biobyte assembly technology created by the Alberta 2009 team we were able to make this rapid plasmid assembly method amenable to a highschool teaching kit.
