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2017

LacILOV light-activated gene expression

Bronze MedalFoundational Advance
Team size
43 members
Track
Foundational Advance
Section
Undergraduate
Competed as
Toronto

Full writeup

The 2017 wiki

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02What happened

The year

LacILOV fused the LacI repressor to a LOV light-sensing domain, giving a transcription factor that can be switched with light instead of a chemical inducer — finer control in both time and space than IPTG allows. Bronze medal.

03Results

Awards

A bronze medal, with no special prizes recorded.

04Gallery

Photographs

Photographs

All 8
Fluorescence plate assay, wet lab, 4 August 2017Icon-A-Thon, 29 July 2017 — workshop briefingIcon-A-Thon, 29 July 2017 — designing synthetic biology iconsIcon-A-Thon, 29 July 2017 — designing synthetic biology iconsIcon-A-Thon, 29 July 2017 — designing synthetic biology iconsScience Rendezvous 2017 — carrying outreach materials
See all 8 photos from 2017 in the Gallery