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                    <p class="lead"> <i><b>Marchantia polymorpha</b></i> is our novel, eukaryotic multicellular chassis. Being a liverwort, it is one of the most primitive land plants around. Its small size and relative genetic simplicity make it easy to work with and an exciting new model organism in synthetic biology. Content to grow on agar plates, marchantia can be bioengineered in a standard lab with minimal extra equipment. Click <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Cambridge-JIC/Marchantia/Background">here</a> to find out more about the plant and our work to develop the chassis; and <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Cambridge-JIC/Guide">here</a> to learn how to get started using marchantia in your own iGEM project.</p>
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Cambridge iGEM 2014

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Scientific Community

Interactions and adventures with other iGEMers and various scientists in the synthetic biology and plant science communities...

mösbi - a plant biosensor for everyone

To start the summer with a boost, we made a road trip to attend the Oxford iGEM conference.

Meeting for the first time other iGEM teams was definitely the highlight of the event. There was a real buzz and we came back vibrant and eager to start on our project.

Exchanging ideas helped us judge which of our initial ideas caught the interest the most.

The drive home cam all too soon.

“The aspect that struck out the most was the warmth and friendliness of all the teams. We didn’t feel competitive rivalry; it was really about sharing ideas”

Marchantia polymorpha as a new chassis

Marchantia polymorpha is our novel, eukaryotic multicellular chassis. Being a liverwort, it is one of the most primitive land plants around. Its small size and relative genetic simplicity make it easy to work with and an exciting new model organism in synthetic biology. Content to grow on agar plates, marchantia can be bioengineered in a standard lab with minimal extra equipment. Click here to find out more about the plant and our work to develop the chassis; and here to learn how to get started using marchantia in your own iGEM project.

Results

We successfully transformed hundreds of individual plants, resulting in the first expression of chromoproteins in marchantia, and probably the first expression of chromoproteins in any plant. We successfully built an Arduino-controlled growth chamber, characterised an enzyme new to iGEM and amended the community's knowledge of an existing registry entry. A known marchantia promoter was also added to the registry, along with 27 candidate promoters from the Marchantia genome. They are part of a Marchantia starter kit part collection that also includes terminators, direction sequences, etc. Finally, we submitted an RFC with collaboration of two other iGEM teams, establishing a unified Type IIS based grammar for Plant synthetic biologist: PlantSyntax. Click here for more information.

Our team

We are 9 Cambridge science undergraduates from various backgrounds and with all kinds of fascinating and curious interests. Click here to learn more about the team.

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