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Human Practices Overview

Reaching Society

Encouraged by the rapid Life Sciences development in Lithuania and our team’s previous achievements, we decided that it was meaningful to share our experience with the younger generation. Visiting schools, inviting pupils to visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and introducing SynDrop to them helped us not only to reveal but also clarify our own attitude towards synthetic biology. The discussion that we have organised during the DNA Day’s celebration has become a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our project’s idea and to make it more public-friendly.

Description

What is SynORI?

SynORI stands for synthetic origin of replication. It is a framework designed to make working with single and multi-plasmid systems precise, easy and on top of that - more functional.

The SynORI framework enables scientists to build a multi-plasmid system in a standardized manner by:

Selecting the number of plasmid groups
Choosing the copy number of each group
Picking the type of copy number control (specific to one group or regulating all of them at once).

The framework also includes a possibility of adding a selection system that reduces the usage of antibiotics (only 1 antibiotic for up to 5 different plasmids!) and an active partitioning system to make sure that low copy number plasmid groups are not lost during the division.

Applications

Everyday lab work

A multi-plasmid system that is easy to assemble and control. With our framework the need to limit your research to a particular plasmid copy number just because there are not enough right replicons to choose from, is eliminated. With SynORI you can easily create a vector with a desired copy number that suits your needs.

Biological computing

The ability to choose a wide range of copy number options and their control types will make the synthetic biology engineering much more flexible and predictable. Introduction of plasmid copy number regulation is equivalent to adding a global parameter to a computer system. It enables the coordination of multiple gene group expression.

Smart assembly of large protein complexes

The co-expression of multi-subunit complexes using different replicons brings incoherency to an already chaotic cell system. This can be avoided by using SynORI, as in this framework every plasmid group uses the same type of control, and in addition can act in a group-specific manner.

Metabolic engineering

A big challenge for heterologous expression of multiple gene pathways is to accurately adjust the levels of each enzyme to achieve optimal production efficiency. Precise promoter tuning in transcriptional control and synthetic ribosome binding sites in translational control are already widely used to maintain expression levels. In addition to current approaches, our framework allows a simultaneous multiple gene control. Furthermore, an inducible regulation that we offer, can make the search for perfect conditions a lot easier.

Species sign in ODE system	Species	Initial concentration (M)
A	pDNA+RNA I+RNAII early	0
B	pDNA+RNA II short	0
RNAI	RNA I	1E-6
D	pDNA+RNA II long	0
E	pDNA+RNAII primer	0
F	RNA II long	0
G	pDNA	4E-8*
H	pDNA+RNA II+RNA I late	0
RNA II	RNA II	0
J	RNAI+RNAII	0

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-         <p class="text-content">While putting maximum effort into the wet lab development of SynDrop, it was supremely important not to forget about organizing convincing and engaging Human Practices activities for local community. It has already become almost a postulate, that fundamental projects are nearly impossible to communicate and attract lay public. However being very familiar with the fundamental research field, we have gathered already four year of experience in implementing carefully-though, good, and responsible activities for our community, and general society. This year we started from the younger generation involving them at schools and inviting to challenge their knowledge while visiting our laboratories. The international life sciences Biohackathon was organised after an inspiring dialogue with stakeholders and resulted in the base for our software tool LipoVision. Educating non-scientific people during „DIY-science“ workshop helped us to prove that it does not need to be a scientist in an advanced laboratory in order to be able to carry out research. Collaborations with other iGEM teams were useful for the dry lab development of SynDrop, broadening our scientific network, as well as joining their initiatives and proposals.
+         <p class="text-content">Encouraged by the rapid Life Sciences development in Lithuania and our team’s previous achievements, we decided that it was meaningful to share our experience with the younger generation. Visiting schools, inviting pupils to visit Vilnius University Life Sciences Center and introducing SynDrop to them helped us not only to reveal but also clarify our own attitude towards synthetic biology. The discussion that we have organised during the DNA Day’s celebration has become a great inspiration to search for a creative approach to implement our project’s idea and to make it more public-friendly.
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