IGEM:VGEM/2007

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2007 Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) Team

Welcome to the VGEM Team wiki! The VGEM Team was founded by George McArthur to enable the University of Virginia to send an undergraduate bioengineering team to compete in MIT's international Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM). The objective of the competition is to design and build an engineered biological system using DNA. Systems will be constructed from standard biological parts. Last year, there were around 40 schools participating from around the world (see map). You can read more about the competition here. We'll be adding new information regularly, so be sure to check up on us soon.

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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 Chemical Engineering
The Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Department of Biology

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Our project will be mind-blowing and reality-bending. We'll be programming microbes to tackle a medical or environmental engineering problem, or both! Our group is interested in utilizing synthetic biology engineering principles 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.

Planning

During our weekly meetings throughout the spring semester, we'll be discussing relevant literature and developing project ideas. Our actual experiments will occur during the summer session, and we hope to have our results in order by the beginning of the fall semester in September.

Documentation

Resources

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Our group is an interdisciplinary conglomeration that includes researchers from The School of Engineering and Applied Science, The College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine.

email the VGEM team


Undergraduate Team


Graduate Mentor

  • Brianne Ray, Microbiology


Faculty Advisors


Additional Contact Information

Photographs


Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

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Introductory Papers

Reviews and Perspective Papers

Foundational Papers

Current Research Papers
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