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Team:HAFS Bioholics
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Team
Tell us about your team, your school!
We are from Hankkuk Academy of Foreign Studies(HAFS), located in Yongin city, South Korea. HAFS is one of the most prestigious high schools in South Korea, and students from varying regions and interests are admitted each year. Byunguk Kang, one of the first members of our team, had been known iGEM and Registry organization previously, and discovered while researching synthetic biology that there is a high school devision of iGEM this year. He notified this competition to the school and gathered some passionate students to join this competition.
Although our school does not have enough laboratory resources to support our team, we were able to get support from other labs through our school's individual research support project. Having support for the laboratory and experiment, we finally decided to join the competition. At first the general idea was hard to understand for high school students who learned only the basic biology, but as we researched and learned through the Registry of Standardized Parts, we were able to understand the idea of synthetic biology and how it works. Although our team members' interests may vary, but we do hope we can make something valuable to the society through this competition!
Project
So what we wanted to make was light that could self-sufficiently glow. This would satisfy our goal to create an effective alternative device to depleting energy sources. The general idea is to use luciferase, the enzyme that is used when insects, especially fireflies, illuminate. In order to have luciferase working, we need to have ATP.
luciferin + ATP → luciferyl adenylate + PPi luciferyl adenylate + O2 → oxyluciferin + AMP + light
We therefore need a source that can make ATPs and transport them to luciferase- and it needs to be self sufficient because that is our whole purpose- to make light without exterior input of energy.
Well what are the obvious autotrophs that can make their energy? Plants! Plants, unlike humans and other animals, can do photosynthesis and make
Notebook
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Results/Conclusions
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Safety
What safety precautions did your team take? Did you take a safety training course? Were you supervised at all times in the lab?
Attributions
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Human Practices
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Fun!
What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?
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