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Team:British Columbia/Project Outlook
From 2010.igem.org
Accomplishments
Bronze Medal:
*Register the team, have a great summer, and have fun attending the Jamboree.
*Successfully complete and submit a Project Summary form.
*Create and share a Description of the team's project via the iGEM wiki (see TUDelft 2008 for a great example).
*Present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree (watch the Heidelberg 2008 video for a great example).
*Enter information detailing at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device in the Registry of Parts
*Entered information for each new part or device should at least include primary nucleic acid sequence, description of function, authorship, any relevant safety notes, and an acknowledgement of sources and references. Consider BBa_J45004 as one example (be sure to check Main, Design Page, and Experiences sub-pages for this part). Teams are currently expected to design and contribute standard biological parts that conform to the accepted BioBrick standards for physical assembly. Non-BioBrick parts will not be recognized by iGEM 2010 judges unless they have specific approval. The two specific BioBrick physical assembly schemes that the judges will recognize by default are (i) Tom Knight's original assembly standard and (ii) Ira Phillips fusion assembly standard. Any new Devices that are based on gene expression are expected to conform to the PoPS device boundary standard. See chapter 3 of the book, Adventures in Synthetic Biology, for more information about common signal carriers and PoPS.
Submit DNA for at least one new BioBrick Part or Device to the Registry of Parts.
The submitted DNA must be associated with a Part or Device for which you have entered information describing the part or device, and must conform to the BioBrick standards for Parts or Devices (see above).
Silver Medal:
Demonstrate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected.
Characterize the operation of at least one new BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information on the Parts or Device page via the Registry of Parts (see BBa_F2620 for an exemplar).
Gold Medal:
Characterize or improve an existing BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information back on the Registry.
Help another iGEM team by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system.
Develop and document a new technical standard that supports the (i) design of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (ii) construction of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iii) characterization of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iv) analysis, modeling, and simulation of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (v) sharing BioBrick Parts or Devices, either via physical DNA or as information via the internet.
Outline and detail a new approach to an issue of Human Practice in synthetic biology as it relates to your project, such as safety, security, ethics, or ownership, sharing, and innovation.
Special Prizes
Best Human Practices Advance
Issues? We've got issues! How will you sell your project if you have to give away the parts? What does your family think about your genetic engineering dreams? Will the world be a safe place if we make biology easy to engineer? How do the lessons of the past inform everybody's discussion going forward? Find a new way to help human civilization consider, guide, and address the impacts of ongoing advances in biotechnology.
Best Experimental Measurement
There are a lot of exciting Parts in the Registry, but most of the Parts have never been characterized. Can you make a great measurement for one new Parts? Or, can you develop and implement a new method for characterizing thousands of parts? Go for it!
Best Model
Parts and Devices have a lot of details, too many to think about all the time, in fact. Models provide a great way to describe the functioning and operation of Parts and Devices. Show everybody what you can do!
Best Software Tool
Computers have been around for a long time. How come we don't have more, great software tools for helping everything engineering synthetic biological systems based on standard biological parts? Cadence, Synopsis, Microsoft, Google, will these names mean anything to the future of synthetic biology? Or, will you add a new name at the top of the heap? It's up to you.
Best New Standard
There's so much work to do in making biology easy to engineer. If we could easily share and build on each other's work, then we could all do so much more. Standards help to make sharing easier. For example, the BioBrick standard for physical assembly of BioBrick parts makes it easier to design and construct parts that can be readily assembled with the parts that everybody else is making. What other sorts of standards do we need? How about standards for measurements? How about standards for different types of parts (for example, what about a standard BioBrick promoter, with a fixed transcription start site? Or, how about a standard phosphorylation motif, for post-translational devices? Or, how about a standard signal carrier for biosynthetic devices? Or, how about a standard model for a class of BioBrick Devices? Or, how about a standard for sharing information about parts across computer networks?). You get the idea.
Best Wiki
The project Descriptions on the iGEM website provide a great resource for future iGEM students and teams, as well as the rest of the world, so that everybody can see what iGEM is about. For example, check out this Description from the 2007 UC Berkeley iGEM team, Bactoblood. Wow! Can you do better?
Best Poster
Posters are a great way to concisely present your team's work. You can bring your poster to the Jamboree, but also to other meetings and conferences as well. Print out a second copy and post it at your home school so that everybody in your department or school can learn about your team. Show us what you've got.
Best Presentation
At the end of the day, many people learn best by watching and listening. Online video also provides a wonderful legacy to help others, from students, to teachers, to the general publics. Giving a great presentation is a challenge, and benefits greatly from practice and study.
Area Prizes
Best Health or Medicine Project
Many health and medical problems might best be addressed by improved biological technologies. What can synthetic biology do?
Software Tools
Bronze Mousepad:
Register the team, have a great summer, and have fun attending the Jamboree.
Create and share a Description of the team's project via the iGEM wiki.
Present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree.
Develop and make available via the Registry an open source software tool that supports synthetic biology based on BioBrick standard biological parts (remember, the iGEM judges will be looking for substantial team-based software projects).
Silver Mousepad:
Provide a detailed, draft specification for the next version of your software tool, or a second, distinct software tools project.
Gold Mousepad:
Help another iGEM team by, for example, analyzing a Part, debugging a Device, or modeling or simulating a System.
Develop and document a new technical standard that supports the (i) design of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (ii) construction of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iii) characterization of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (iv) analysis, modeling, and simulation of BioBrick Parts or Devices, or (v) sharing of BioBrick Parts or
Devices, either via physical DNA or as information via the internet.
Outline and detail a new approach to an issue of Human Practice in synthetic biology as it relates to your project, such as safety, security, ethics, or ownership, sharing, and innovation.
