From 2014.igem.org
Medal Requirements
Bronze Medal Requirements
- Team registration
- Team Wiki
- Our wiki is up! While designing and building our wiki from scratch, we kept in mind ways to facilitate future iGEM teams' web development. This page layout is therefore easily replicable, while allowing for lots of functionality - take a look at our source code and see for yourself!
- Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree
- Poster ready to go!
- The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services. See our Attributions here!
- Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device used in your project/central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry. See our Parts here!
Silver Medal Requirements
- Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected.
We can proudly assure that the following Biobricks work perfectly:
- BBa_K1554001, BBa_K1554002, BBa_K1554003 are the three enzymes that constitute the pheromone synthesis pathway. They proved to work and provided the expected results (Results: Pheromone Analysis).
- BBa_K1554006 allows an efficient conversion from GoldenBraid 2.0 standard parts to BioBrick standard parts (Parts Contruction).
- Document the characterization of this part in the “Main Page” section of that Part’s/Device’s Registry entry.
Check it! BBa_K1554001, BBa_K1554002, BBa_K1554003, BBa_K1554006
- Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry
- Articulate questions encountered by your team, and describe how you considered them within your project
- In our Policy and Practices, we extensively explore the pressing issues surrounding synthetic biology: 'Environmental Impact', 'Intellectual Property' 'Communication' and 'Public Engagement'.
Gold Medal Requirements
- Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system
- We developed a tight collaboration with the NRP-UEA-Norwich team. In collaboration, our team developed two biosafety devices thanks to two parts provided by them. Both devices were submitted to the iGEM Registry BBa_K1554004 and BBa_K1554005. In addition, the NRP-UEA-Norwich also provided us with their Mo-Flippers. We tested them in GoldenBraid standard parts and they worked perfectly.
- We have collaborated with several iGEM teams, most notably Melbourne iGEM team. We worked with them extensively to consider an alternative approach to our bioremediation system using their star peptide instead of the micro-compartments that we'd previously considered. Our engineers extensively modelled their system using stochastic simlation with the intention of investigating how reaction rates are improved using the star peptide. More information is available here: Collaboration with the Melbourne iGEM team.
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