Team:WashU StLouis/Model
Modeling
Modeling Overview
The goal of our project is to explore radiation resistance genes to find ways to increase UV tolerance. With a changing climate, organisms grow under increasing stress of DNA damage. The overall goal of our model is to evaluate the resistance of organisms to UV and compare the growth of resistant and non-resistant cells under different levels of UV. This modeling aims to assess the commercial advantage of resistant cells compared to normal cells by predicting their growth under UV radiation. To obtain useful parameters, our models use the well-described growth and radiation death of E. coli.
