Team:Marburg/Demonstrate

Wiki Text: Demonstrate “Started from the bottom, now we here” - Drake Our project has three goals. First we want to establish the cyanobacteria Synechococcus Elongatus UTEX 2973 and restore its natural competence. Secondly, we wanted to show the best growing conditions with the goal of standardization for working with UTEX 2973. The final goal is to create a suitable golden-gate toolbox for our strain and share it with other iGEM teams and researchers. In our iGEM year we achieved to restore the natural competence of Synechococcus Elongatus UTEX 2973, analyzed different cultivation parameters (link to growth curves) to accelerate the growth speed including finding the best conditions. Besides that we expanded the Marburg Collection from 2018 and are able to deliver a toolbox of xxx parts with free access to the world. On top of that we automated plasmid purification (link to labautomation) and colony picking via the Opentron OT-2.

Demonstrate

Gold Medal Criterion #4

Teams that can show their system working under real world conditions are usually good at impressing the judges in iGEM. To achieve gold medal criterion #4, convince the judges that your engineered system works.

Your engineered system has to work under realistic conditions. Your system must comply with all rules and policies approved by the iGEM Safety Committee. Your system can derive from or make functional a previous iGEM project by your team or by another team. For multi-component projects, the judges may consider the function of individual components.

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