Biology & Life Sciences

PLOS iGEM 2017

Published June 13, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance scientific communication and peer review through increased openness and sharing. In the third year of our project with iGEM, PLOS held our second Realtime Peer Review Jamboree, where teams were encouraged to review each other’s work in real time along with experts and PLOS staff editors. The teams then revised their work in line with the live peer review event comments and posted them to bioRxiv. Some teams are working towards a full submission to PLOS ONE. All teams would welcome feedback on their papers on bioRxiv.

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Nischal Acharya et al

bioRxiv Getting there and staying there: supporting and enabling persistent human life on Mars using synthetic natural rubber, self-healing materials, and biological batteries.
June 12, 2018 Nischal Acharya, Natalie Baker, Marilu Krystal Bravo, Katie Gu, Sierra Harken, Michael Howland Herschl, Addie Petersen, Ileana Pirozzi, Dylan Spangle, Gordon Sun, Brian Vuong, Nils J.H. Averesch, Kosuke Fujishima, Trevor! J. Kalkus, Kara J. Helmke Rogers, Lynn J. Rothschild
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Ushanandini Mohanraj et al.

bioRxiv SUMO-based expression and purification of dermcidin-derived DCD-1L, a human antimicrobial peptide, in Escherichia coli
June 9, 2018 Ushanandini Mohanraj, Oona Kinnunen, Meryem Ecem Kaya, Aino Sesilija Aranko, Heli Viskari, Markus Linder
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Arcellana-Panlilio et al

bioRxiv Astroplastic: A start-to-finish process for polyhydroxybutyrate production from solid human waste using genetically engineered bacteria to address the challenges for future manned Mars missions
April 2, 2018 Xingyu Chen, Syeda Ibrahim, Alina Kunitskaya, Kaitlin Schaaf, Zi Fei Wang, Preetha Gopalakrishan, Maliyat Noor, Harry Wilton-Clark, Jacob Grainger, Alex Ivanova, Patricia Lim, Michaela Olsakova, Lalit Bharadwaj, Bilal Sher, David Feehan, Rachelle Varga, Mayi Arcellana-Panlilio
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Thornbury et al

bioRxiv Discovery and Characterization of Novel Lignocellulose-Degrading Enzymes from the Porcupine Microbiome
March 27, 2018 Mackenzie Thornbury, Jacob Sicheri, Caroline Guinard, David Mahoney, Francis Routledge, Matthew Curry, Mariam Elaghil, Nicholas Boudreau, Angela Tsai, Patrick Slaine, Emma Finlayson-Trick, Landon Getz, Jamie Cook, John Rohde, Craig McCormick
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Zhao et al

bioRxiv Quantification of DNA samples by Ethidium Bromide Spot Technique
March 27, 2018 Jessica Zhao, Julian Zhao, Antoine Cummins, Tiffany Gonzalez, Grace Axler-DiPerte, Devin Camenares
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Natalia Brzozowska et al.

bioRxiv Characterizing Genetic Circuit Components in E. coli towards a Campylobacter jejuni Biosensor.
March 27, 2018 Natalia Brzozowska, Jane Gourlay, Ailish O'Sullivan, Frazer Buchanan, Ross Hannah, Alison Stewart, Hannah Taylor, Reuben Docea, Greig McLay, Ambra Giuliano, James Provan, Katherine Baker, Jumai Abioye, Julien Reboud, Sean Colloms
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Agathe Lermant et al.

bioRxiv A thermo-responsive plasmid for biconditional protein expression
March 27, 2018 Agathe Lermant, Alicia Magnanon, Alexandra Silvain, Paul Lubrano, Marie J Lhuissier, Camille Dury, Maryne Follenfant, Zoe Guiot, Gaetan Christien, Pauline Coudert, Antoine Arvor, Maxime Sportich, Gabrielle Vuillaume, Nicolas Delettre, Julie Henry, Eliott Lafon, Thomas Lhernould, Fanny Richard, Alexandre Ismail
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Cody Madsen et al.

bioRxiv Current production as a rapid response expression reporter under micro-oxic and anoxic conditions
March 27, 2018 Cody S Madsen, Noelia N Barvo, Ciara Fromwiller, Serenity Tyll, Brian Amburn, Danny Ducat, Bjoern Hamberger, Michaela A TerAvest
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Ayman Shafei et al.

bioRxiv Competing endogenous RNA network: Potential entrants to gene editing in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
March 25, 2018 Ayman Shafei, Marwa Matboli, Mahmoud Ali, Ziad Nagy, Maged Reda, Mohamed Salah, Ahmed Hamdy, Mahmoud Abdelgawad, Ahmed Ashry, Mohammad Tarek, Osama Saber, Ahmed Azazy, Badr Mohamed, Mohamed Hassan, Nashwa El-Khazragy, Sherif El-Khamisy
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Justin Yang et al.

bioRxiv Recombinant expression of Proteorhodopsin and biofilm regulators in Escherichia coli for nanoparticle binding and removal in a wastewater treatment model
March 23, 2018 Justin Yang, Yvonne Wei, Catherine Yeh, Florence Liou, William Chen, Dylan Lu, Christine Chen, Justin Pei, Candice Lee, Emily Chen, Ashley Lin, Paul Imbrogulio, Katie Chang, Andrew Hu, Jesse Kao, Kelly Chen, Audrey Tei, Chansie Yang, Katherine Hsu, Laurent Hsia, Oscar Wallace, Abby Hau, Allen Liu, William Huang, Stephanie Chang, Catherine Chang, Leona Tsai, Avery Wang, Changsun Lee, Alvin Wang, Moksha Shah, Leon Yim, Sean Tsao, Teresa Chiang, Jude C Clapper