Team:USP UNIFESP-Brazil
AlgAranha Team USP-UNIFESP BRASIL
We are a multidisciplinary team from São Paulo, Brasil, with students of architecture, biology, biomedical sciences, social sciences and more, from the universities USP, UNESP and UNIFESP. The team originated from the synthetic biology club (SynBio Brasil),which is an independent club that works promoting synbio and open science awareness and education. Since 2012, different members of the club have organized themselves to take part in iGEM competition.
This year, our project is based on the heterologous expression of spider silk protein in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Moreover, the team is envolved with open hardware developement and promotion and synthetic biology popularization, helping to promote the synthetic biology culture in Brazil, raising awareness and engaging the public.
