UCSC iGEM

UCSC iGEM

Oct 08, 2014

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Preparing for the competition

Greetings Supporters!

We have sent in our biobricks to the iGEM competition and are working on finishing the wiki! iGEM is being made into a two quarter class at UCSC. The project will continue after the competition and likely be picked up as next years iGEM team project. Six of our undergraduate researchers will attend the conference in Boston. We will keep everyone updated on the competition results!

Thanks for your support!

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About This Project

Our team seeks to engineer a micro organism that will
produce the high-energy chemical butanol when the organism is fed cellulose. A mixture of 85% butanol and 15% gasoline produces a liquid fuel that can be used in current infrastructure and lowers our carbon footprint. By producing a cellulose based liquid biofuel we hope to shorten the carbon cycle and thereby directly combat climate change and address the growing global energy demand.
Blast off!

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