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Team:St Andrews
University of St Andrews 2010 iGEM Team
Welcome to the the University of St Andrews iGEM wiki. This is our first year participating in iGEM and we're very excited to be here! This page is constantly changing, check back for more soon!
| We're St Andrews' first iGEM team. Comprised of nine studenents and assisted by five advisors we represent a number of different scientific fields. Working on several exciting subprojects and on our main challenge we have been busy getting to grips with the incredible world of igem and synthetic biology. Meet our Team and our advisors! | Cholera is a deadly infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae which causes massive dehydration and electrolyte loss. Predominantly effecting = the deveolping world Cholera is one of the world's greatest killers. Find out how through the use of quorum sensing and synthetic biology we propose a countermeasure to stop Cholera in it's tracks. Find out more about our project. | We would like to offer our greatest thanks to all our sponsors, your generosity has allowed us to make all this possible. For a full list of our sponsors, both from St Andrews and around the world please visit here |
| To better understand the inner workings of the Cholera quorum sensing system we produced a series of computational models to simulate the operation of Cholera. Based upon differential equations and solved computationally via the runge kutta method our models provide a comprehensive view of Cholera quorum sensing and bi-stable switching behaviour. To find out how we designed our models from the blackboard to the CPU check out our modelling pages . | Over the summer months our team have been hard at work doing things that the person writing this wiki has no idea about, running gels, PCR, catogarising stuff, making biobricks, creating fire etc. To find out more check out our wet lab section | Integral to iGEM and all scientific endevour are human practices. Human pratices is an expansive term encorporating ethics, group dynamics, sharing and cooperation. Part philosophy and part psychology human practices is all about the people involved in science, from those behind it to those effected by it, how all these parties interact and how they can learn from each other. To find out about the ethical and social issues we considered and how we see the future of synthetic biology and iGEM vist our human practices page . |
