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<p>iGEM (international genetically engineered machines competition) is an international competition in synthetic biology, hosted by the MIT in Boston. The aim of this competition is to answer a basic question that Randy Rettberg, the director of iGEM, once described as follows: "Can simple biological systems be built from standard, interchangeable parts and operated in living cells? Or is biology just too complicated to be engineered in this way?"
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<p>The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method.</p>
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The iGEM-approach to answer that question is to actually try to engineer biological systems with a proper function. To this end, more than 100 interdisciplinary student teams from all over the world, mainly consisting of undergraduate students in biology, biochemistry, engineering, informatics and mathematics, carry out different projects during the Summer. These projects reach from medical applications, i.e. genetically modified bacteria used in cancer-treatment to environmental and manufacturing projects, i.e. the construction of a watch-like counter consisting of living cells. In contrast to classical genetic engineering where only one gene is transferred from organism A to organism B, synthetic biology goes forward into the construction of whole new systems with a completely new function. Therefore, all iGEM-Teams get access to a gene- Database called registry, where hundreds of different genetic parts with characterized functions are available in a “plug-and-play” –like format. These parts can be simply stuck together to build functional systems.
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The rising number of iGEM-Teams over the last years as well as the upcoming public interest in iGEM, the iGEM-Teams’ projects and synthetic biology in general shows, that synthetic biology will for sure have a great impact in many different fields of both scientific research and every-day life.</p>
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<p>The contents and design of this wiki are published under the <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> You are granted the right to copy and modify our work, but you must publish your work under the same type of license while recognizing us the authors. This work originates from the Heidelberg 2009 iGEM Wiki.</p>
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<p>The contents and design of this wiki are published under the <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License">GNU Free Documentation License</a> You are granted the right to copy and modify our work, but you must publish your work under the same type of license while recognizing us the authors. The design of this wiki originates from the Heidelberg 2009 iGEM Wiki.</p>
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Revision as of 06:24, 3 September 2010

Blasting Away Biofilms

To disperse ''Staphylococcus aureus'' biofilms, our team is working to express an endogenous bacteriophage and biofilm matrix-degrading enzyme DspB under the control of the Agr quorum-sensing system.

Our Project Page

And The Award Goes To...

Here's a list of the things we've accomplished.

See Our Accomplishments

It's Human!

Stop by our human practices section and play games, talk on the forum etc.

Talk Play Love

UBC iGEM: Blasting Away Biofilms

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2 Faculty Advisors, 2 Graduate Advisors, 9 Undergrads

Our project...

Our parts...

Modeling...

Human practices...

Notebook...

The Team

iGEM

The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method.

The contents and design of this wiki are published under the GNU Free Documentation License You are granted the right to copy and modify our work, but you must publish your work under the same type of license while recognizing us the authors. The design of this wiki originates from the Heidelberg 2009 iGEM Wiki.

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