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Team:Carnegie Mellon/Achievements
From 2014.igem.org
We accomplished many things this summer...
- Formed and registered the team.
- 3 engineers, 2 biologists, 1 business and 1 industrial design
- 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 4 seniors
- 6 females and 1 male
- Obtained a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant SURG
- Submitted 35 parts to the Registry
- Documented new photosensitizers, an estrogen and a robust T7 RNA Polymerase reporter system
- Validated a new photosensitizer and improved another
- Improved the characterization of fluorescent proteins and a T7 RNA Polymerase reporter system
We collaborated extensively:
- Participated in the iGEM Interlab Study
- Worked with Pitt iGEM Team on modeling
- Made a CMU iGEM Twitter
- Had a really great iGEM Meetup (September 6)
- Worked with Ivy Tech to improve the DNA Extraction Kit
We spent lots of time with our community.
- Reached 531 students, ages 10-18, total of 243 hours and 32 teachers
- Designed synthetic biology kits for lending to middle school teachers through DNAzone
- Tested kits for DNA Extraction and Creature Feature with students
- Children of CMU Faculty and Staff at Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day (April 24)
- Environmental Charter School Outreach (June 11)
- SAMS (July 3)
- TechBio and SysBio presentation with Pitt iGEM (July 11)
- SRI presentation at CMU (July 11)
- Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)
- Sciencepalooza (July 31)
- Pittsburgh Public School Professional Development (August 20)
- We met with water experts Dr. Vanbriesen (July 2) and Dr. Gregory (July 17)
- We also worked on microfluidics chamber design, production and implementation Awareness
