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<h2>Achievements</h2>
 
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<li>Help a registered iGEM team from another university in a significant way by characterizing a part:  
 
<li>Help a registered iGEM team from another university in a significant way by characterizing a part:  
 
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<li>We developed a satisfactory <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations">collaboration</a> with <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:NRP-UEA-Norwich/Collaborations">Norwich</a> team, by testing their plant-expression constructs in our lab. They sent us their Mo-Flippers, which allow to convert our Golden Braid assemblies to BioBrick standard. Aditionally, we will be participating along with the <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Cambridge-JIC">Cambrige</a> team in the plant workshop in the Jamboree!</li>
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<li>We developed a satisfactory <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations"> collaboration</a> with <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:NRP-UEA-Norwich/Collaborations">Norwich</a> team, by testing their plant-expression constructs in our lab. They sent us their Mo-Flippers, which allow to convert our Golden Braid assemblies to BioBrick standard. Aditionally, we will be participating along with the <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Cambridge-JIC">Cambrige</a> team in the plant workshop in the Jamboree!</li>
 
<li>Our team and <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Tuebingen">Tuebingen</a> team joined forces and made a modelling<a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations">collaboration</a>, as they are working with the same inductor as us.</li>
 
<li>Our team and <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Tuebingen">Tuebingen</a> team joined forces and made a modelling<a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations">collaboration</a>, as they are working with the same inductor as us.</li>
 
<li>We also participated in small <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations">surveys</a> in order to help a bit other teams, as we consider any help given is valuable.</li>
 
<li>We also participated in small <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Collaborations">surveys</a> in order to help a bit other teams, as we consider any help given is valuable.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A biological circuit design that acts as an eukaryotic decoder able to produce 2N outputs.  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">Design of a synthetic biological circuit that acts as an eukaryotic decoder able to produce 2<sup>N</sup> outputs in response to N inputs. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Circuit">Results: Circuit</a></p>
  
Results: Circuit</p>
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<ul><li>The circuit is genetically controlled by applying only two different light wavelengths inputs due to the implemented optogenetic elements.</li>
  
<ul><li>Genetically controlled by applying only two different light wavelengths inputs</li>
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<li>The circuit has memory. It is able to ‘remember’ sequential light inputs in order to obtain the desired output due to the implementation of phage recombinases.</li>
  
<li>Capable to process the information remotely according to people specific needs.</li>
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<li>Capable to process the information remotely according to people specific needs thanks to the use of light as inducers .</li>
  
<li>Able to ‘remember’ the sequential light inputs given in order to obtain the desired product.</li>
 
  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">An in silico approach of the biological decoder that has allowed a wide understanding of the
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key control elements for a proper functioning. Results: Modeling</p>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">An <i>in silico</i> approach of the biological decoder that has allowed a wide understanding of the
  
<ul><li>Identifying principal or key components which may be critical in order to get the desired response of our device:
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key control elements for a proper functioning of the circuit. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Modeling"> Results: Modeling</a> </p>
  
fast enough recombinases, good light sensing of optogenetically controlled switches, </li>
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<ul><li>Identifying the key components which are critical in order to get the desired response of our device:
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fast enough recombinases, good light sensing of optogenetically controlled switches. </li>
  
 
<li>Exploring conditions to improve the performance of our circuit, reducing the time needed to majorly produce the  
 
<li>Exploring conditions to improve the performance of our circuit, reducing the time needed to majorly produce the  
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minimum waste of resources, obtaining the best light inputs.</li>
 
minimum waste of resources, obtaining the best light inputs.</li>
  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A Red/Far Red light-inducible switch implementation in <i>N. benthamiana</i> plants to induce
 
  
the expression of the firefly luciferase gene. Results: Red/Far red light switch</p>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">Construction and testing of the key genetic elements composing the synthetic circuit:</p>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A Red/Far Red light-inducible switch implementation in <i>N. benthamiana</i> plants. Expression evaluated by using firefly luciferase reporter gene. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Results#scrollred">Results: Red/Far Red light switch</a></p></li>
  
 
<ul><li>Successful assembly by adapting the main control element genes (PIF6 and PhyB) to different DNA-binding domains:  
 
<ul><li>Successful assembly by adapting the main control element genes (PIF6 and PhyB) to different DNA-binding domains:  
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LexABD, LacIBD and Gal4BD</li>
 
LexABD, LacIBD and Gal4BD</li>
  
<li>Testing the functionality of this system by transforming plant leaves prior to measure expression levels of the  
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<li>Testing the functionality of this system by transiently transforming plant leaves prior to measure expression levels of the  
  
 
firefly luciferase gene.</li>
 
firefly luciferase gene.</li>
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<li>Showing promising results in leaf tissues for future gene stable expression.</li>
 
<li>Showing promising results in leaf tissues for future gene stable expression.</li>
  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A blue light dependant gene expression system, which has been transiently implemented in <i>N.  
 
<p style="font-weight:bold">A blue light dependant gene expression system, which has been transiently implemented in <i>N.  
  
benthamiana</i> leaf tissues for the production of a gene of interest. Results: Blue light switch</p>
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benthamiana</i> leaf tissues for the production of a gene of interest. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Results#scrollblue">Results: Blue light switch</a></p>
  
 
<ul><li>Successful assembly of the complete switch device with three different DNA binding domains. </li>
 
<ul><li>Successful assembly of the complete switch device with three different DNA binding domains. </li>
  
<li>Exploring its functionality in plant leaves by measure the expression of the luciferase protein</li>
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<li>Exploring its functionality in plant leaves by measuring the expression of the luciferase protein</li>
  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A de novo design of a violet/cyan light-dependent toggle switch for expression of a target gene  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A <i>de novo</i> design of a violet/cyan light-dependent toggle switch for expression of a target gene  
  
 
in plants.</p>
 
in plants.</p>
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<li>Transforming the toggle switch into plant leaves to test the functionality for luciferase transgene expression.</li>
 
<li>Transforming the toggle switch into plant leaves to test the functionality for luciferase transgene expression.</li>
  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A plant codon usage optimization for BxbI and PhiC31 recombinases and its expression in plants  
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A plant codon usage optimization for BxbI and PhiC31 phage recombinases and its expression in plants  
  
for GFP visualization</p>
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for GFP visualization <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Results#scroll3">Results: Recombinases</a></p>
  
<ul><li>Designing reporter elements for each recombinase that contain a terminator T35S flanked by the recognition
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<ul><li>Designing and assembling reporter elements for each recombinase that allow identification of efficient excision activity. </li>
  
sites</li>
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<li>Successful expression and functionality of the reporter device for each recombinase in plant leaves.</li>
  
<li>Assembling the reporter element  with a GFP gene as a reporter</li>
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<li>Successfully expression and functionality of the device for each recombinase in plant leaves.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">A plant capable to express three different recombinant drugs. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Results#scroll4"> Results: Drugs</a></p>
  
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<ul><li>Succesful assembly of each drug coding sequences with a constitutive plant promoter (P35S). </li>
  
<p style="font-weight:bold">A plant capable to express three different medicaments. Results: Drugs</p>
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<li>Successful production of each of the three drugs in plant leaves.</li>
  
<ul><li>Succesful assembly of each drug with a constitutive plant promoter (P35S). </li>
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<li>Proof of our produced medicaments in plant leaves.</li>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">Transient expression assays to prove the capability of seedlings from different plant species to be transformed for gene
  
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expression.<a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Results#scroll5">Results: Seedlings assays</a></p>
  
<p style="font-weight:bold">Seedlings assays to prove the capacity of certain plant species to be transformed for gene
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<p style="font-weight:bold">Designed and implemented a portable bioreactor that contains the necessary elements to undertake
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the process of transformation and product selection. <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Design"> Results: Magic lamp</a></p>
  
expression.</p>
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<p style="font-weight:bold">Created a virtual laboratory called <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:Valencia_UPV/Practices/Minecraft">SynBiocraft</a> , where anyone with just a computer game can
  
<p style="font-weight:bold">Designed and implemented a portable bioreactor that contains the necessary elements and where
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feel the real experience of working in a lab without expending huge amounts of money. There you will be able to reproduce
 
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any project ever performed.</p>
 
any project ever performed.</p>
 
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Valencia UPV iGEM 2015

Medals

bronze medal

  • Register for iGEM, have a great summer, and attend the Giant Jamboree, done!
  • Complete the Judging form.
  • Description of the team's project using the iGEM wiki, and document the team's parts.
  • Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree -we hope you like it.
  • Create a page which must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services.
  • Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry. You may also document a new application of a BioBrick part from a previous iGEM year: we submitted BBa_K1742002 and BBa_K1742003


bronze medal

  • Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected.
    • Reporter of the recombinase PhiC31 (BBa_K1742008) and reporter of the recombinase Bxb1 (BBa_K1742006) work as expected in our project. Check it here
  • Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry
  • Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated and addressed one or more of these issues in the context of your project (ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, intellectual property rights...)
    • We studied the safety concerns our project could have as a transgenic plant, together with the legallity of this kind of products in Europe and the need of a medical control in the case of drugs production.
    • Given the choice of drug production in our device, we decided to make it useful and important, so we researched about what drugs could be really necessary to produce in places like the Third World. Check here our conclusions.


gold medal

  • Demonstrate an innovative Human Practices activity that relates to your project
    • Our team has created a virtual reality which allows everybody to have access to a synthetic biology lab. Also, it makes possible to teach in an easy and comprehensive way what SynBio is and how it works.
  • Help a registered iGEM team from another university in a significant way by characterizing a part:
    • We developed a satisfactory collaboration with Norwich team, by testing their plant-expression constructs in our lab. They sent us their Mo-Flippers, which allow to convert our Golden Braid assemblies to BioBrick standard. Aditionally, we will be participating along with the Cambrige team in the plant workshop in the Jamboree!
    • Our team and Tuebingen team joined forces and made a modellingcollaboration, as they are working with the same inductor as us.
    • We also participated in small surveys in order to help a bit other teams, as we consider any help given is valuable.
  • Improve the function OR characterization of a previously existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team, or by your own team in in a previous year of iGEM):
    • PhiC31 (BBa_K1132009)has been proved to work in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. It has been also codon optimized for its use in plants in order to improve its function (BBa_K1742004).
    • ePDZ (BBa_K1470005) has been tested in plants bound to AsLOV, with good results.


Achievements

Design of a synthetic biological circuit that acts as an eukaryotic decoder able to produce 2N outputs in response to N inputs. Results: Circuit

  • The circuit is genetically controlled by applying only two different light wavelengths inputs due to the implemented optogenetic elements.
  • The circuit has memory. It is able to ‘remember’ sequential light inputs in order to obtain the desired output due to the implementation of phage recombinases.
  • Capable to process the information remotely according to people specific needs thanks to the use of light as inducers .


An in silico approach of the biological decoder that has allowed a wide understanding of the key control elements for a proper functioning of the circuit. Results: Modeling

  • Identifying the key components which are critical in order to get the desired response of our device: fast enough recombinases, good light sensing of optogenetically controlled switches.
  • Exploring conditions to improve the performance of our circuit, reducing the time needed to majorly produce the desired output: different number of gene copies or sequences of light inputs.
  • Obtaining optimal conditions that ensure the highest production of the chosen output as fast as possible with the minimum waste of resources, obtaining the best light inputs.

Construction and testing of the key genetic elements composing the synthetic circuit:

    A Red/Far Red light-inducible switch implementation in N. benthamiana plants. Expression evaluated by using firefly luciferase reporter gene. Results: Red/Far Red light switch

    • Successful assembly by adapting the main control element genes (PIF6 and PhyB) to different DNA-binding domains: LexABD, LacIBD and Gal4BD
    • Testing the functionality of this system by transiently transforming plant leaves prior to measure expression levels of the firefly luciferase gene.
    • Showing promising results in leaf tissues for future gene stable expression.

    A blue light dependant gene expression system, which has been transiently implemented in N. benthamiana leaf tissues for the production of a gene of interest. Results: Blue light switch

    • Successful assembly of the complete switch device with three different DNA binding domains.
    • Exploring its functionality in plant leaves by measuring the expression of the luciferase protein

    A de novo design of a violet/cyan light-dependent toggle switch for expression of a target gene in plants.

    • Designing and successfully assembling all the components for the correct interaction of the key elements upon light stimuli.
    • Checking its expression in plant protoplasts by reversing its photoswitchable property.
    • Transforming the toggle switch into plant leaves to test the functionality for luciferase transgene expression.

    A plant codon usage optimization for BxbI and PhiC31 phage recombinases and its expression in plants for GFP visualization Results: Recombinases

    • Designing and assembling reporter elements for each recombinase that allow identification of efficient excision activity.
    • Successful expression and functionality of the reporter device for each recombinase in plant leaves.

    A plant capable to express three different recombinant drugs. Results: Drugs

    • Succesful assembly of each drug coding sequences with a constitutive plant promoter (P35S).
    • Successful production of each of the three drugs in plant leaves.

    Transient expression assays to prove the capability of seedlings from different plant species to be transformed for gene expression.Results: Seedlings assays

    Designed and implemented a portable bioreactor that contains the necessary elements to undertake the process of transformation and product selection. Results: Magic lamp

    Created a virtual laboratory called SynBiocraft , where anyone with just a computer game can feel the real experience of working in a lab without expending huge amounts of money. There you will be able to reproduce any project ever performed.