Team:Carnegie Mellon/Achievements

From 2014.igem.org

We accomplished many things this summer...

• Formed and registered the team.
  • Obtained a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant SURG
  • Submitted 35 parts to the Registry
    • Documented new photosensitizers, an estrogen biosensor 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
  
  
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