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Team:CSWProteens
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Team
The Cambridge School of Weston is located in Weston instead of Cambridge, Massachusetts in America. It is a progressive, co-educational, day and boarding school for students in grades 9 to 12 and post-graduate. Since the school's inception in 1886, it has been at the forefront of educational innovation, putting students at the center of what the faculty do.
Our teachers are passionate. And we are bold, thoughtful, and some of the most interesting people you’ll ever meet. We are The Cambridge School of Weston, CSW Proteens. We will rock the world upside down!
The team is consisted of 14 intelligent and genius students who stands strong with the best instructor on the earth, Howard G. Goldswag. Oh, not gold swag but Goldsweig. It must have meant the same. The team is leaded by Joey Booties, sorry, Joseph Boots-Enfield actually, a courageous young lad who started the iGem team for the school from zero to infinity. The team members, Aiden Kolodziej, Jenny Woo, Matthew Waters, Ellie Wolf, Nate Williams Joseph Boots-Ebenfield, Noa Machover, Ben Klebe, Summer Ardell, Claire Kerper and Liam. As united as the round table knights (if you ignore Lancelot) and as smart as Albert Einstein. Ah! And please don't forget the honored webpage editor Yixuan Liu. The editor was "honered" because he was too lazy to do anything. (Just kidding) :)
Project
Annually, about 5% to 15% of agricultural produce is lost due to frost. The formation of ice damages plants by rupturing cells and also through dehydration as water molecules are drawn out of tissue. Current solutions to this problem - such as using heat or covering crops with protective material - are cumbersome, costly, and not fully preventative. Synthetic antifreeze chemicals have not been proven to work. Even if they did, they would need to be applied repeatedly, at great cost, and may also leave residues in the environment. The CSW ProTeens aim to design a synthetic biology solution to this problem with a nonpathogenic strain of E. coli able to produce and secrete RiAFP (Rhagium inquisitor Antifreeze Protein) using a part that the Yale ‘11 iGEM team developed. RiAFP is an insect antifreeze protein from Rhagium inquisitor and the most efficient AFP known. RiAFP, unlike synthetic chemicals, should not be harmful if ingested. We are not sure yet whether this method is effective on an industrial scale and will need to test this. We wish to control the population of the E.coli by designing a kill switch mechanism that will prevent excessive growth as well as use a type 1 secretion system designed by the Utah State University ‘09 iGEM team to transport the protein directly to the extracellular space.
Notebook
Show us how you spent your days.
Results/Conclusions
What did you achieve over the course of your semester?
Safety
Safety is always an important thing for our team. When doing labs, our instructor is always with us. Howard, our instructor instruct us about every single lab move and what to mind that is risky. The lab is well equipped to ensure every team members' safety. We have thick gloves specially designed for preventing things from burning our hands. Goggles to prevent bad things spiting into our eyes. Rubber gloves ensure the sanity and our health. We also have a lab shower and an eye washer that will save our life if we get into trouble with some dangerous chemicals. Moreover, we all have insurance so we won't pay out of our pockets if something bad happens.
Attributions
Who worked on what?
Human Practices
Here it is, one of the biggest humanity issue: NO ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE. Nowadays, as the global population grows continuously, the demand for food is rising. Many good and bad were done to expand agricultural production. Burning down forests and mountains, genetically modify crops and so on, however, expanding the production is the only thing people have to work on. There is a huge annual lost of crops all over the world caused by natural disasters. Frost is one of the big parts. Our project will provide a cheap and doable way of continuously preventing frost to damage the crops for a long period of time. This means our synthetic biology method is easy to apply and effective. This will contribute to the world's agricultural production and help all Human beings to live in a better world.
Fun!
What was your favorite team snack?? Have a picture of your team mascot?
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