Team:KU Leuven/Project

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A video shows that two of our team members are having great fun at our favourite company. Do you know the name of the second member that appears in the video?
For one of our models we had to do very extensive computations. To prevent our own computers from overheating and to keep the temperature in our iGEM room at a normal level, we used a supercomputer. Which centre maintains this supercomputer? (Dutch abbreviation)
We organised a symposium with a debate, some seminars and 2 iGEM project presentations. An iGEM team came all the way from the Netherlands to present their project. What is the name of their city?

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Our goal is to reduce the damage aphids invoke on our agricultural industry on a sustainable way. The current solution is almost always using huge amounts of insecticides, which damages the ecosystem in several ways. First of all, the indiscriminatory weakening of insects means the usefull insects for agriculture are also affected. Besides that the pesticides accumulate in higher organisms that eat the insects. Taking into account the necessities above there are two solutions that we worked out. We could have an autonomously oscillating system which would prevent habituation and would also allow an off-plant solution. Another possibility is creating a communication system with the environment as to make sure there is only production when needed. This would mean there’s only a burden on the cell’s metabolism when needed.

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+Our goal is to reduce the damage aphids invoke on our agricultural industry on a sustainable way. The current solution is almost always using huge amounts of insecticides, which damages the ecosystem in several ways. First of all, the indiscriminatory weakening of insects means the usefull insects for agriculture are also affected. Besides that the pesticides accumulate in higher organisms that eat the insects.
+Taking into account the necessities above there are two solutions that we worked out. We could have an autonomously oscillating system which would prevent habituation and would also allow an off-plant solution. Another possibility is creating a communication system with the environment as to make sure there is only production when needed. This would mean there’s only a burden on the cell’s metabolism when needed.