Team:Imperial College London/Achievements

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Achievements
We have:
Had a fantastic summer, learnt loads and formed new friendships.
Run a series of Synthetic Biology School Workshops, and have provided tools for others to follow suit.
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 (PyrD and AmyE vectors and Dif excision of antibiotic resistance genes).
Tackled the problem of Neglected Tropical Diseases for the first time in the iGEM competition.
Characterized XylE.
Designed a software tool for protease detection and protein presentation on the surface of B. subtilis.
Submitted a fantastic natural BioBrick Part, the LytC CWBD.
Submitted two great novel engineered BioBrick parts; GFP-XylE and the enhanced LacI promoter.
Characterized the operation of the new BioBrick part GFP-XylE.
Based our specifications on modelling and human practices.
Characterised modules in both B. subtilis and E. Coli.
Managed to get loads of experimental measurements!
Helped three iGEM teams (Warsaw, UNAM-Mexico and METU-Turkey) by completing their surveys.