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Welcome to FSU iGEM 2018!

This year we explored the novel field of audiogenetics. Click on “Description” to see our Project Overview. Click on the “Human Practices” menu to see what potential uses our human practices team explored this year! Click “Design” to check out or project design or, click “Build & Test” to see what our team built this year! We are thankful to all our supporters that can be found on the “Attributions” page.

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-     <h3 style="line-height:1.1em;padding-right:3em;">Can sound be used to induce gene expression in engineered E. coli?</h3>
+     <h3 style="line-height:1.1em;padding-right:3em;">Welcome to FSU iGEM 2018!</h3>
-     <p>Today, it is routine to induce the expression of a gene in E. coli using small molecules such as arabinose, lactose, and rhamnose.  Can sound become a routine means to induce gene expression in engineered E. coli? Our project, Audiogenetics, offers a new foundational advance to the synthetic biology community. Slovenia’s Sonicell and SUS Tech’s Cearll’s Secret projects pursued a similar question in mammalian cells. We characterized putative promoters expected to be at end of a signal transduction pathway responsive to sound submitted by the 2008 Berkeley team  In parallel, we studied genes that, according to published scientific reports, are up-regulated when bacteria are exposed to sound and identified the promoters expected to be involved in that system. These selected promoters were used to design new genetic devices that generate fluorescent reporters when the cells are exposed to sound.  We used our designed genetic devices to correlate levels of gene expression with frequency, amplitude, and exposure time.</p>
+     <p>This year we explored the novel field of audiogenetics. Click on “Description” to see our Project Overview. Click on the “Human Practices” menu to see what potential uses our human practices team explored this year! Click “Design” to check out or project design or, click “Build & Test” to see what our team built this year! We are thankful to all our supporters that can be found on the “Attributions” page. </p>
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