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Welcome to the BV CAPS page!

This is the BV CAPS iGEM team’s second year participating in the iGEM jamboree. Our group is from Overland Park, Kansas where the state flower is the beautiful sunflower. Our program called Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) contains students from the five different high schools in the Blue Valley School District. At CAPS, students are able to learn in depth about a specific career path and are able to experience real-world problems. This year we are trying to overexpress pyruvate kinase in cyanobacteria to increase the production of alkanes which is one of the important biofuels.