Re: [DIYbio] Amazing Breakthrough from Home Lab

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, SC <stacy734@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Finally, a home lab in the news in a positive light.
>
> "In her research she developed a process of artificial selection where
> she killed off algae with low levels of acetyl-CoA carboxylase
> (ACCase), an enzyme crucial to lipid synthesis. Left behind in the
> beakers under her bed were an efficient bunch of high yield algae,
> which she discovered produced a significant increase in lipid
> production."
>
> I wonder what the selection technique was. Maybe just separating
> populations, taking a measurement, and then deciding which to dump.
>

Would be nice to hear more. Some more details:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competitions/science-talent-search/winners.html
http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/2013finalists/svolz

BINGO

Optimizing Algae Biofuels: Artificial Selection to Improve Lipid Synthesis

http://www.csef.colostate.edu/2012_Abstracts/Volz_Sara.pdf

energy.colostate.edu/docs/7_Volz.ppt

Hmm, she's doing some quiet advanced stuff. qPCR, immunoblotting,
Trizol RNA extraction. So looks like she partnered the Colorado State
U. I didn't read it all yet.

BTW, Google, you broke gMail. *pulls out Thunderbird*

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