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− | <p class="text-muted">With our exams and assignments from semester 2 complete we set about outlining the details of the team's project and identifying a dissertation subject for each team member.</p> | + | <p class="text-muted"> |
+ | <br>With our exams and assignments from semester 2 complete we set about outlining the details of the team's project and identifying a dissertation subject for each team member. | ||
+ | <br>The team met with Jane Calvert to discuss the stakeholders in the project, including industry, research teams, other iGEM team and the public. The consideration of safety issues surrounding the use of heterologous parts in uncharacterised hosts and potentially unseen hazardous consequences sprang from this meeting and was expanded on throughout our project.<br> | ||
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<br> Mutagenesis was conducted to remove illegal sites from the Rhodococcus vectors. Mut2 and Mut3 showed a good result.<br> | <br> Mutagenesis was conducted to remove illegal sites from the Rhodococcus vectors. Mut2 and Mut3 showed a good result.<br> | ||
<br> Our fungi team worked on their MoClo protocols in order to start assembling devices with our the designed PhytoBricks and achieved great efficiency at LV0. We also worked on optimisation of transformation protocol in P. roqueforti.<br> | <br> Our fungi team worked on their MoClo protocols in order to start assembling devices with our the designed PhytoBricks and achieved great efficiency at LV0. We also worked on optimisation of transformation protocol in P. roqueforti.<br> | ||
+ | <br> Jane Calvert and Deborah Scott helped the group to delve deeper in to the social dimensions of the project and human practices, with discussion focused on new questions of patents, GMOs and ethics that powerful and enabling genetic technologies such as CRISPR/Cas have brought up.<br> | ||
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