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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.
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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
Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this is the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)
Home | The Team | The Project | Parts Submitted to the Registry | Modeling | Notebook |
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(Or you can choose different headings. But you must have a team page, a project page, and a notebook page.)
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