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From 2010.igem.org

Lab

Modeling

• Light-switch: There is a problem regarding adapting the original model to our possible experimental setup.

Track selection

Think about the Track selection! Here are the possibilities and a short summary of the 2009 team than won this award:

1. Best Food and Energy Project: UNIPV-Pavia. They tried to produce ethanol from cheese whey
2. Best Environmental Project: Cambridge. Pigment production in E.coli
3. Best Health and Medicine Project: Stanford. A Probiotic Approach to Diagnosing and Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
4. Best Manufacturing Project: Imperial College London. The E.ncapsulator, a versatile manufacture and delivery platform by which therapeutics can be reliably targeted to the intestine.
5. Best New Application Area: Valencia. iLCD, iGEM Lighting Cell Display.
6. Best Foundation Advance: Alberta. A Synthetic Biology Tool Kit for Artificial Genome Design and Construction.
7. Best Information Processing Project: TUDelft. Bacterial Relay Race, a cell-to-cell communication system that allows the propagation of a set of instructions coded on a plasmid, and not just binary information as in quorum sensing.
8. Best Software Tool: Berkeley Software & Illinois-Tools (Tie). Eugene, Spectacles, and Kepler: Managing Synthetic Biology Device Development.

According to the group meeting on Monday, August 9th, the track choice is either best new application area or best information processing project. A final decision will be taken once the deadline date is announced.