Team:Valencia

Hot Yeast

Valencia iGEM '08 Team heats it up in your lab!!!

Tired of forgetting to keep our plates on the stove and therefore losing all of our work we thought, wouldn’t it be great to have culture that heats itself up? This idea was the basis for our project.

We aim to express transmembrane protein UCP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and be able to record a temperature increase using a calorimeter. In a second phase, we will implement a regulatory system for the temperature from both an upper and lower limit.

About us

We are students from Universidad de Valencia and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Our team is made up of:

• Six Student Members: two undergraduate biology students, one undergraduate biology and chemistry student, one undergraduate biotechnology student and two graduate civil engineers.
• Four Instructors.
• Four Advisors.

The Team

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