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          'With more and easier access to high-calorie
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foods the worldwide prevalence of obesity has
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Canada alone, the average rate of obesity has
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healthcare system. Our goal is to engineer a
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          |          <a href="#">March 26th</a>
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         <h2>The team</h2>
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         <h2>Who we are</h2>
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         We are a team consisting of 3 scientific advisors and 12 undergraduate students from the University of Ottawa. This is the first year that the University of Ottawa has recruited a team to participate in the iGem competition. Our team members have a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Feel free to take a look at our team page to find out more about us.
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         We are a team consisting of 1 scientific advisors and 14 undergraduate students from the University of Ottawa. This is the second year that the University of Ottawa has recruited a team to participate in the iGem competition. Our team members have a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Feel free to take a look at our team page to find out more about us.
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<h2> the team</h2>
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<h2>Tech museum on the 5th of May</h2>
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             <td><a  href="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/DSCF1238.JPG" rel="lightbox[museum]"><img  src="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/thumbs-1.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="" /></a></td>
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             <td><a  href="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/DSCF1238.JPG" rel="lightbox[museum]" title="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."><img  src="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/thumbs-1.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="" /></a></td>
             <td><a href="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/DSCF1241.JPG" rel="lightbox[museum]"><img src="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/thumbs-2.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="" /></a></td>
             <td><a href="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/DSCF1241.JPG" rel="lightbox[museum]"><img src="http://www.ipm-int.org/boxmode/image/museum/thumbs-2.jpg" width="85" height="85" alt="" /></a></td>
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Revision as of 15:51, 20 June 2009

uOttawa IGEM2009

uOttawa IGEM2009

Who we are

We are a team consisting of 1 scientific advisors and 14 undergraduate students from the University of Ottawa. This is the second year that the University of Ottawa has recruited a team to participate in the iGem competition. Our team members have a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Feel free to take a look at our team page to find out more about us.

Advisors

the team

Tech museum on the 5th of May

   

|March 26th

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