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Welcome to Nankai IGEM Team!

From College of Life Science

This autumn, we're coming!

This is our team!

Team Nankai 2015 is consist of ? junior students, ? senior students and 3 instructors. With our team established in March 2015, we are more than excited to join the big community of iGEM. Our team is organized within the College of Life Science of Nankai University, where all of the team members have spent two or three years studying and conducting researches.

The idea of synthetic biology attracted us in a way that other fields of study never could, and our passion about science is the engine that has led us all the way through obstacles and setbacks. We are persevering and capable as a research team. However, at spare times, we are just a group of fun-loving young college students. There is always an atmosphere of anticipation that we could blend into iGEM community. So we are looking forward to seeing you at the Giant Jamboree!Want to know more about us? click here……

Do you know……?

What is “Pudding Health kit”? The Pudding Health kit is actually a jelly-like unguent made of Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) and medicine, which has a significantly better effect on healing the wounds than usual unguents.

What is Poly-γ-glutamic acid? Poly-γ-glutamic acid, i.e. γ-PGA, is an important, naturally occurring polyamide which exhibits excellent peculiarity in water retention and sustained drug release. How is γ-PGA produced? We used engineered Bacillus amyloliquefaciens LL3 for mass production of γ-PGA, yet the original B. amyloliquefaciens LL3 strain that we isolated from fermented food could only produce γ-PGA at a very low yield.

Wonder how we did it? Click here to learn more………

We use modeling in our project.

The purpose of our project is to improve the output of polyglutamic acid. But how do we evaluate our work? That's why we need modeling, a useful tool to check our plans and enhance their feasibility.

Considering our project is aimed at industrial production, we use our modeling to fit those macro variables which are quite useful in the fermentation industry. They are bacteria scale, product concentration and substrate concentration. Actually what we are most concerned with is the product, so its modeling is necessary. Then we need other equations to illustrate the product. Here we can also choose the gene express pathway using Michealis equation to build our modeling. However, as I said before, we want our data and methods can be used in the industrial fermentation. With this modeling, we can easily find out a suitable fermentation environment and calculate the benefits.

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