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Team:British Columbia/Project Outlook
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Project Achievements
Future Directions
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.
Quick Links
See our characterized Biobrick PartsSee our new Phage Standard
See our Human Practices Art Gallery
See the Waterloo Team
Consideration for Special Awards
Besides striving for a Gold Medal and a place as one of the finalists, our team would also like to be considered for the following special awards:
"What a society deems important is enshrined in its art." -Harry Broudy
Our human practices project presents the first iGEM art gallery dedicated to synthetic biology and all its diverse aspects. Sometimes art answers our deepest questions. Sometimes art only deepens the mystery. And sometimes a picture is just worth a thousand words. This is our way of helping human civilization consider, guide and address the impacts of ongoing advances in synthetic biology. Not limited to conventional artwork, our gallery also features synthetic biology promoter maps and poems.
"One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality." -Erwin Chargaff
Right before your eyes, watch how the population dynamics of a biofilm is affected by the introduction of bacteriophage and a biofilm matrix-degrading enzyme. Using our model, we are able to run simulations that predict outcomes of the system and construct informed hypotheses to test in reality.
Best Software Tool and Gold Mousepad
"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own." -Jean Toomer
There are standards for prokaryotes and standards for eukaryotes. But what about standards for the living dead? Our new Phage standard lays down a foundation for future work involving viruses and integrating Biobrick parts into their genome. Prepare to be infected!!!
We've worked really hard on our wiki to make it accessible, fun and interactive! So we hope that future iGEM teams, students worldwide, and even the general public will visit us here and see what iGEM and synthetic biology is about!
Best Poster
Best Presentation
Best Health or Medicine Project
