IGEM:VGEM/2007

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2007 Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) Team

Welcome to the new VGEM Team wiki! The VGEM Team was founded by George McArthur IV so that the University of Virginia's could send an undergraduate bioengineering team to compete in MIT's international Genetically Engineered Machines competition [(iGEM)]. We'll be adding new information regularly, so be sure to check up on us soon.

Personnel

Undergraduate Team

• George McArthur, 3rd year, Chemical Engineering and Music - email the VGEM team
• Kevin Hershey, 3rd year, Chemical Engineering
• Amy Schell, 3rd year, Biomedical Engineering
• Ranjan Khan, 2nd year, Biomedical Engineering
• Emre Ruhi, 3rd year, Biology

Graduate Mentor

• Brianne Ray, Microbiology

Faculty Advisors

• Erik Fernandez, Chemical Engineering
• Jason Papin, news Biomedical Engineering
• Ron Bauerle, Biology

Project

Our project will be mind-blowing and reality-bending. We'll be working with E. coli and hope to tackle a medical or environmental engineering problem or both! Our group is interested in the metabolic engineering of bacteria for the production of sophisticated biomaterials, fine chemicals such as biopharmaceuticals, and renewable energy alternatives such as ethanol and hydrogen using engineering principles that are being developed by the emerging discipline called Synthetic Biology.

Links

• Registry for Standard Biological Parts
• BioBricks Protocols

Acknowledgements

This team was made possible by the generous support from the following:

• The School of Engineering and Applied Science
• The Virginia Engineering Foundation
• The Office of the Vice President for Research
• The Department of Biomedical Engineering
• The Department of Chemical Engineering
• The Department of Biology

Papers

Introductory Papers

• Extreme genetic engineering: An introduction to synthetic biology
• Genetic parts to program bacteria