Team:EPF-Lausanne/Project Abstract
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Welcome to the KULeuven IGEM 2008 Homepage!
Enjoy the hard work we delivered, feel free to contact us at igem@kuleuven.be and visit our university/sponsor (BioSCENTer) iGEM page!
Synthetic Biology: BioSCENTer and iGEM
Synthetic biology is a new challenge in biosciences. It combines biology and engineering principles to design and build new biological functions and systems. Examples are abound: cancer cell invading bacteria, microbes that take pictures, antimalarial drug producers,... The advantage of using living systems for these purposes is that, once they are designed and built, they are self-reproducible. The challenge, however, lies exactly within the design and construction: making biological circuits and devices as robust and predictive as their electrical counterparts. ...
The Team
The KULeuven team consists of 12 enthusiastic students selected out of three faculties, 4 civil engineers, 4 bio-engineers and 4 biochemists. More information on the team members can be found on the Students page or by scrolling over the heads of the students.
- Maarten Breckpot
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Maarten Breckpot
Studies:
1st Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering – Mathematical Engineering
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Belgium - Nick Van Damme
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Nick Van Damme
Studies:
1st Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering – Mathematical Engineering
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Belgium - Benjamien Moeyaert
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Benjamien Moeyaert
Studies:
3rd Bachelor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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Belgium - Stefanie Roberfroid
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Stefanie Roberfroid
Studies:
3rd Bachelor of Bioscience Engineering – Biomolecular Engineering
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Belgium - Dries Vercruysse
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Dries Vercruysse
Studies:
1st Master of Applied Sciences and Engineering - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Belgium - Andim Doldurucu
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Andim Doldurucu
Studies:
1st Master of Bioscience Engineering – Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Turkey - Hanne Tytgat
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Hanne Tytgat
Studies:
3rd Bachelor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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Belgium - Elke Van Assche
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Elke Van Assche
Studies:
3rd Bachelor of Bioscience Engineering – Biomolecular Engineering
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Belgium - Jan Mertens
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Jan Mertens
Studies:
1st Master of Bioscience Engineering – Biomolecular Engineering
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Belgium - Nathalie Busschaert
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Nathalie Busschaert
Studies:
3rd Bachelor of Chemistry
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Belgium - Jonas Demeulemeester
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Jonas Demeulemeester
Studies:
1st Master of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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Belgium - Antoine Vandermeersch
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Antoine Vandermeersch
Studies:
2nd and 3rd Bachelor of Applied Sciences and Engineering – Electrical and Materials Engineering
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Belgium
The Project
Our team’s project is Dr. Coli, an E. coli bacterium that produces a drug when and where it is needed in the human body. It does this in an intelligent way, such that the drug production meets the individual patient’s needs. And when the patient is cured, Dr. Coli eliminates itself from the body. To achieve this goal we divided our project into several subsystems. A detailed description about every subsystem can be found by clicking on one of the following pictograms.
scroll over the pictograms to get a short description or click on them to go to the corresponding page