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Team:KU Leuven
From 2013.igem.org
Secret garden
Congratulations! You've found our secret garden! Follow the instructions below and win a great prize at the World jamboree!
- 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?
Now put all of these in this URL:https://2013.igem.org/Team:KU_Leuven/(firstname)(abbreviation)(city), (loose the brackets and put everything in lowercase) and follow the very last instruction to get your special jamboree prize!
This year, the team consists of 16 enthusiastic students who want to join hands and don’t mind working the whole summer for this project. It’s a very diverse team consisting of students with different backgrounds. There are 10 guys and 6 girls present with both bachelor and master studies and of different nationalities. The team is supported by former iGEMmers and employees from all levels of the KU Leuven.
Our iGEM project will be called ‘E. coligy: Plants with BanAphids’, a bacterial strain which can fight the problem of aphids in the garden. The proposed strain will secrete one or more pheromones or fragrances which will repel aphids and attack ladybugs, the natural enemies of aphids. This new approach through genetically modified bacteria can reduce the use of harmful insecticides in the future. Pheromones are naturally occurring signalling molecules, which are secreted by a lot of animals and can elicit an attracting or repelling effect.
