Team:HAFS Bioholics

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This is a template page. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
You are provided with this team page template with which to start the iGEM season. You may choose to personalize it to fit your team but keep the same "look." Or you may choose to take your team wiki to a different level and design your own wiki. You can find some examples HERE.
You MUST have the following information on your wiki:
  • a team description
  • project description
  • safety information (did your team take a safety training course? were you supervised in the lab?)
  • team attribution (who did what part of your project?)
You may also wish to add other page such as:
  • lab notebook
  • sponsor information
  • other information
REMEMBER, keep all of your pages within your teams namespace.
Example: 2012hs.igem.org/Team:HAFS_Bioholics/Our_Pets



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Tell us more about your project. Give us background. Use this as the abstract of your project. Be descriptive but concise (1-2 paragraphs)

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Team HAFS_Bioholics


Official Team Profile

Contents

Team

Tell us about your team, your school!


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

Show us how you spent your days.


Results/Conclusions

What did you achieve over the course of your semester?


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

Who worked on what?


Human Practices

What impact does/will your project have on the public?


Fun!

What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?


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