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VGEM

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George McArthur IV

George is the founder of UVA's Virginia Genetically Engineered Machine (VGEM) Team. He is a third-year chemical engineering and music double major concentrating in biotechnology and composition respectively.

Academic Interests

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. –Loren Eisley

My research goals include utilizing synthetic biology principles, in particular standardized biological parts derived from marine organisms, in the genetic circuit and metabolic pathway engineering of microorganisms for use in large-scale industrial bioprocesses including the bioproduction of specialty chemicals, biofuels and biopharmaceuticals.

Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms. –Richard P. Feynman

My undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (in addition to Music), coupled with future graduate studies in biological engineering, marine biotechnology and applied molecular microbiology will hopefully prepare me to tackle old and new bioengineering problems, including the bioremediation of our planet's coral reefs, and participate in the exciting biotech revolution that is occurring and that will continue to shape our world.

All of the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. –Pierre Simon de LaPlace

Undergraduate Thesis Project

To be determined soon...

Interesting Literature

1. Proteorhodopsin photosystem gene expression enables photophosphorylation in a heterologous host by DeLong et al
2. Complete cellulase system in the marine bacterium Saccharophagus degradans strain 2-40T by by Weiner et al
3. Light-powering E. coli with proteorhodopsin
4. New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins
5. Light-driven hydrogen production by a hybrid complex of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase and the cyanobacteria photosystem I
6. Differential activation of E. coli chemoreceptors by blue-light stimuli

Links

• Gossamer Fidelity (the band)
• Sorcerer II Expedition
• Synthetic Genomics (the company)
• Molecular Marine Biology Laboratory
• homestarrunner.com

Contact

George's email