Medals

With the aim to create a lipid-producing cell factory, we designed a set of strains with modifications to improve various aspects of lipid metabolism. We show that decreasing TAG turnover by deletion of TAG lipases results in increased lipid levels. Light-activated expression of perilipin promotes lipid build-up, presumably by sequestering TAG to lipid droplets. Finally, we show that indium phosphide nanoparticles can functionalize yeast cells to use light energy for lipid synthesis.

Bronze



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Attribution

The person who helped us and the contributions of individual in our team are listed in detail in the attribution page of wiki.

Attribution

We chose to design a game, in which two bacteria fight against each other.The reason why we chose this project and the methods to achieve this goal have been clearly demonstrated on our Description page.

Special prizes

Best education

This year, a wider range of popularization has been achieved and educational materials in various forms have been designed, including general introduction to iGEM, popularization of synthetic biology, and promotion of Jilin_China throughout various online platforms. Meanwhile, various forms were designed to popularize synthetic biology for the students at different educational levels. In addition, our special efforts were made for educational materials, available to people with hearing disorders and visual deficiencies in the form of voice version and braille version.

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