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 a new photosensitizers, estrogen sensor 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)
• Sciencepalooza (July 31)
• Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)
• Pittsburgh Public School Professional Development (August 20)
• TechBio and SysBio presentation with Pitt iGEM (July 11)


• SRI presentation at CMU (July 11)


• Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)


• TechBio and SysBio presentation with Pitt iGEM (July 11)
• SRI presentation at CMU (July 11)
• Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)
We also worked on microfluidics chamber design, production and implementation
We met with Dr. Vanbriesen (July 2) and Dr. Gregory (July 17)

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