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The AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center, sponsored students to compete at the NSF Innovation Challenge.

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The AC2 Bio-Link Regional Center recently sponsored two DMC students to present at the student poster competition at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting held in Boston, MA February 16-20, 2017. AAAS is the largest general scientific society in the world and is international in scope.

At the AAAS student poster competition SEA-PHAGES student Mr. John Ramirez and Danial Nasr competed against 4-year university and graduate students from Tier I research universities. It is noteworthy that they were not competing against any 2-year college students. The student’s ability to conduct independent research is unprecedented... Read more

This summer two Del Mar College students are working at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), which is part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) in Berkeley, CA. John F. Ramirez and Lorie Leyva are working on projects that involve E. coli membrane protein expression, isopentenol tolerance, production, and secretion for use as a potential biofuel. Some membrane proteins improve isopentenol production and a knockout strain of E. coli also improves membrane protein expression. John and Lorie are also testing the effects of multiple plasmid transformations have on the growth dynamics of their production strains of E. coli.

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