The University’s iiGEM team is working on a project entitled “Manifold” to build a platform technology that makes the process of metabolic engineering more efficient and would revolutionize biosynthesis.
Under the guidance of Assoc. Biology Prof. Keith Kozminski, members of the team must first enroll in a semester-long synthetic biology course that provides the competitors with a foundation for the engineering design cycle, making recombinant plasmids — which are plasmid vectors with inserted DNA that drive recombinant DNA into a host cell — and learning basic synthetic biology techniques.
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Story by: By Linda Ziamanesh; Photo: In November, the University’s 2021 iGEM team competed in the annual, worldwide iGEM Competition with their metabolic engineering project "Manifold." Courtesy of Christopher Nguyen