IGEM:Harvard/2007
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Shaunak: oh YESSSSS look at all this bufferrrrr...*drool* FecTACULAR!!! We whash our DNA...you can too!
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Kneeling (L-R): Nicholas Guido, George Xu, Stephanie Lo, Ellenor Brown, Shaunak Vankudre, Alain Viel
Standing (L-R): Pamela Silver, George Church, Debra Auguste, Bill Senapedis, William Shih
On Statue (L-R): Mike Strong, Tamara Brenner, Perry Tsai, Kevin Shee, Harris Wang
This year Harvard's team consisted of 8 undergraduate students, with backgrounds in molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, and computer science. With the help of 6 faculty advisers and 4 teaching fellows, plus one education advisor, they devised and executed a single project with three subsections, which you can find in the "projects" section above.
Wikipedia defines "synthetic biology" as:
"Synthetic biology aims to create novel biological functions and tools by modifying or integrating well-characterized biological components (i.e. genes, promoters) into higher order genetic networks using mathematical modeling to direct the construction towards the desired end product."

(left) Bacteria in Munch's Scream
A thanks goes to MIT's team page, along with the rest of the iGEM team for our page formatting.
-Kevin