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Revision as of 13:29, 1 July 2008


This is a template page. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples HERE.
You MUST have a team description page, a project abstract, a complete project description, and a lab notebook. PLEASE keep all of your pages within your Team:Example namespace.



Contents

University of Edinburgh 2008 iGEM Team

Team Members:

Students:

Andrew Hall, Adler Ma, Antonia Mayer, Omar Gammoh, Wenhong (Tina) Li, Xing (Ariel) He, Zejun Yan.


Main instructors:

Chris French, Alistair Elfick, Hongwu Ma

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Overall project

Saving the World

"Cellulose is the most abundant form of fixed carbon, with 100,000,000,000 tons produced in cell walls by plants each year"

(Wilson, 2008) [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1196/annals.1419.026 ]

Nowadays the world-wide food shortage is becoming more and more important. As we can image, converting cellulose to starch will be one of the most sufficient ways to solve this problem .

Project summary

Recent Wiki updates

01 July 2008

Lysis: An alternative to cellulase secretion page updated. (AH)


The Experiments

Primer Design 
Our Primers 
Dr Chris French's OpenWetWare Site - Our one-stop destination for Biobrick protocols 



External Links

Dr. Chris French's Wiki

Andy's lab book

News and Research Articles



Results