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The Kit-y Lacs have been working with the laccases from the iGEM distribution kit, CotA and CueO, as well as the catechol-1,2-dioxygenase. These enzymes are the main degradation machinery in our system.

Name: Ebba Perman
Age: 22
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Whistle high and loudly

Quote: "Where is Del?"

Name: Josefin Ågren
Age: 22
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Modify the labresults

Quote: "Has anyone seen Del?"

Name: Louise Granlund
Age: 23
Bachelor student in biology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Start a rolling chair race

Quote: "I'm stuck in my labcoat!"

Name: Oskar Westlin
Age: 24
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Biohacking

Quote: "Do NOT destroy my system!"

Name: Delyan Georgiev
Age: 24
Master student in biology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Risky experimental stuff

Quote: "Fuck these fucking primers"

Name: Adam Engberg
Age: 22
Bachelor student in biomedicine

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Cryosleep

Quote: "Anyone who wants to buy an absurd amount of gluten flour from Germany?"

Laccalicious has been working with the NahR/Psal promoter system that regulates the expression of our degrading enzymes, as well as reporter genes that indicate that PAHs are being degraded. They have also tried to incorporate a new, modified laccase into the construct to test its potential.

Name: Fredrik Lindeberg
Age: 22
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Write in Elabjournal

Quote: "Damn it! We're out of Snickers... and Snickers homologues!"

Name: Konrad Gras
Age: 21
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Juggle ignited Bunsen burners

Quote: "Now we have another dilemma… Is a virus an organism or just DNA with an attitude?"

Name: Cecilia Ålander
Age: 22
Bachelor student in biochemistry

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Sing loudly to music

Quote: "Yeah, we should totally do that!"

Name: Annie Herbertsson
Age: 21
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Play around in Photoshop

Quote: "Konrad, so what size should the image be?"

Name: Adrian Silberman
Age: 23
Bachelor student in molecular biology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Beatbox

Quote: "You can't help but be mezmerized by how much you can do with synthetic biology"

Name: Dianna Zeleskov
Age: 21
Bachelor student in biology and chemistry

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Dance!

Quote: "I'll go ask Del"

The Biosurfers have tried to express rhamnolipids, biosurfactants that dissolve the hydrophobic aggregates of PAHs and allow more interactions with our degrading enzymes.

Name: Sangeetha Bupalan
Age: 22
Master student in applied biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Dance to Tunak Tunak

Quote: "I'm high!"

Name: Anastasios Glaros
Age: 26
Master student in bioinformatics

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Interesting stuff that ethics disallow

Quote: "Can I drink that?"

Name: Joel Striem
Age: 26
Bachelor student in molecular biology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Try to make every potion from Harry Potter

Quote: "Where the fuck is Fredrik, I need his mom!"

Name: Anna Boström
Age: 22
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Do Bollywood-dancing!

Name: Julia Lundgren
Age: 24
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Do Bollywood-dancing!

Quote: "This is how you eat surströmming!"

Name: Thomas Andersson
Age: 22
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Whatever needs to be done

The Nah7 group has tried to incorporate the naphthalene degradation pathway from Pseudomonas putida into our system. The result of this pathway is salicylate, the inducer of our degradation system.

Name: Mikael Andersson Schönn
Age: 23
Master student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Try surviving on a diet consisting of LB and coffee

Quote: "Oskar, don’t put your coffeemug on the spectrophotometer!!!"

Name: Linnea Westberg
Age: 21
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Make a small Dumbo-pet for myself! I'd call him Dumbo Jr

Quote: "So... early lunch?"

Name: Kira Karlsson
Age: 24
Bachelor student in biomedicine

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Sing, dance and load all the gels

Quote: "Where's that thingabajing?"

Name: Hanna Eriksson
Age: 21
Bachelor student in molecular biotechnology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Draw something on the blackboard, name all the pipettes or maybe read my book

Quote: "Skipping is the best mode of transportation"

Name: Björn Greijer
Age: 21
Bachelor student in biology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Draw on the board

Name: Dmitry Laso
Age: 23
Bachelor student in pharmacology

What would you do in the lab, if no one was watching?
Build a nuke

Here you can view pictures of what we have been up to during this summer!