User:Irina Petrova

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Irina Petrova

I am a PhD student of the GRK 1305/1 “Plant Signal Systems” program in The Freiburg University[1]. I am working on the 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 the 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 (in my opinion ;). It is very individual and very fashionable. We want to follow fashion, don’t we?

On the other 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) a rectilinear merge pattern, and
2) a staggered merge pattern
following the terms of Paul Rothemund. The first one is simpler to understand; the second one is more practical for patterning. Only when you use a staggered merge pattern can you put all hairpins onto one side of the knitted DNA sheet with maximal density.

Have a look at 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.
The other ones would be: BBa_J35003, BBa_J35004, BBa_J35005, BBa_J35006, BBa_J35007.
Your choice!

My photos will help you.

BBa_J35004	BBa_J35005	BBa_J35006	BBa_J35007

Another pretty possibility is the hybrids (color)FP with DNA-binding proteins that bind to specific staples, e.g. BBa_J35030

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