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| − | <p class="white">Year: Senior <br> Major: Biology <br><br> <i>If you could choose to be raised by aliens, dinosaurs, or robots, which would you choose and why?</i><br>Aliens. I would have the ability to explore the vast universe one planet at a time and learn about their way-of-life.<br><br><i>What do you like about iGEM?</i><br>Students work on their project based on their | + | <p class="white">Year: Senior <br> Major: Biology <br><br> <i>If you could choose to be raised by aliens, dinosaurs, or robots, which would you choose and why?</i><br>Aliens. I would have the ability to explore the vast universe one planet at a time and learn about their way-of-life.<br><br><i>What do you like about iGEM?</i><br>Students work on their project based on their interests, and learn design and research skills that are hard to acquire as undergrads.<br><br><i>If you could solve any problem in the world what would it be?</i><br>World hunger.</p> |
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Revision as of 20:23, 27 August 2015
P4: Protein Products Pichia Plants
Our Project
Protein Products from Plants and Pichia: Novel Manufacturing of Analgesics and Cannabinoids
Cannabinoids and opiates are widely used classes of pharmaceuticals; unfortunately, these drugs have strong psychoactive effects or can be addictive. Our project consists of two ideas, both revolving around utilizing bioengineered microorganisms to create non-psychoactive cannabinoids and non-addictive analgesics. To achieve this we developed two projects: (1) Manufacturing a protein expression system to produce CBDA synthase in tobacco plants using agrobacterium, (2) Engineering the pGAPα vector system to express the mambalgin in Pichia Pastoris as a continuation of the 2014 GSU iGEM project. Simultaneously, we developed a proof of concept using horseradish peroxidase. By the end of this project we hope to have produced a synthetic biological system to manufacture pharmaceutical alternatives for patients that suffer from diseases such as epilepsy, cancer, or chronic severe pain.
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