User:Irina Petrova

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Irina Petrova

I am a PhD student of the GRK 1305/1 “Plant Signal Systems” program in Freiburg University[1]. I work on detection and visualization of Arabidopsis thaliana root mRNA in Prof. Palme’s research group[2]. I am interested in bringing science and design together. I like DNA and iGEM Competition.

email: irina.petrova(at)biologie.uni-freiburg.de

Individual project: Nike nano collection (Blouse and Skirt)

The dress design is more interesting than a chip design (to my opinion ;). It is very individual and very fashionable. We want to follow the fashion, don’t we?

On the another hand, a broad range of variable forms can be important for an artificial life. I play with DNA like with my Barbie doll.

The idea was to knit a nice blouse for Barbie without any boundary conditions. I used two methods of knitting:
1) rectilinear merge pattern, and
2) staggered merge pattern
In the terms of Paul Rothemund. The first one is simpler for understanding; the second one is more practical for patterning. Only if you used the staggered merge pattern, you can put all hairpins onto one side of the knitted DNA sheet with a maximal density.

Have a look on the pictures:

Blouse with rectilinear merge pattern

Blouse with staggered merge pattern

Skirt with staggered merge pattern

This design is for M13mp18 scaffold DNA. I use the fork hairpin BBa_J35001 to create the Nike-logo pattern.
Other ones would be: BBa_J35003, BBa_J35004, BBa_J35005, BBa_J35006, BBa_J35007.
Your choose!

My photos will help you.

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