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2020 iGEM Sponsorship

Congratulations to our sponsored teams as below:

iGEM IISER Bhopal
iGEM RUM-UPRM
iGEM iBowu-China

iGEM FCB- UANL
iGEM UPCH
iGEM IISER Berhampur

iGEM RUM-UPRM

As the first iGEM team in Puerto Rico and Caribbean, we aspire to continue impacting the social, educational, and research sectors of Puerto Rico including high school students, teachers and undergraduate students within Synthetic Biology, its application, and opportunities throughout hands on workshops. In the Giant Jamboree 2019, we won Silver Medal and were nominated for Best Project in Open Track. This year we look forward on participating the Giant Jamboree with our environmental project.

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iGEM IISER Bhopal

We are a group of undergrads from diverse academic backgrounds ranging from biology, chemistry to economics. United by our love for Synbio and iGEM. This is our 3^rd iGEM team. With bronze in the 1st year, silver in the 2nd, ya know where we\'re going. This year our project aims to create an inexpensive and non-invasive therapy for diabetes. Our solution is a simple probiotic pill that is going to help regulate insulin levels by transforming gut cells into pancreatic cells!

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iGEM iBowu-China

We are iBowu-China2020, a high-school team from China. Our project is about delivering magnetic protein crystals to lung cancer cells with the aid of EGFR-binding ligand peptides and conducting targeted hyperthermia by heating up the protein crystals with alternating magnetic field. We are in need of funds for running activities in the Human Practices area as well as purchasing materials essential for the experiments. Please remember us when you cast your vote. We are grateful for your support!

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iGEM FCB- UANL

Fluorosurfactants (PFOs) are standard components of firefighting foams but pose an environmental threat. Our goal is to produce an ecofriendly alternative. We propose the use of Ranaspumin-2, a protein present in the bubble nests of Leptodactylus fragilis, to substitute PFOs as a foaming agent in firefighting mixtures. Not only will our project aid the environment, but it can reduce production costs of foams, allowing underfunded fire departments to access these tools.

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iGEM UPCH

Meet the young and creative members of the new iGem2020 multidisciplinary team! We are currently developing an antifreeze product focused on diminishing the effects of frost on crops. This project will have a great impact in the agriculture of the Peruvian Andes. We hope we can show this concept to the world in the upcoming Virtual Giant Jamboree this year. Meet Crioprot!

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iGEM IISER Berhampur

The IISER Berhampur iGEM team for 2020 is a group of undergraduate students hailing from diverse disciplines. This year marks our maiden attempt in participating in this competition. We aim to formulate an intervention strategy for Dengue Virus by combining mathematical modelling, in silico analysis and chemical biology. The essence is to design an efficacious reporter system to implement our strategy as possible therapeutics that may spark further research to combat this dreaded disease.

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HIF-independent synthetic lethality

Science Signaling: HIF-independent synthetic lethality, Hilary Nicholson, Ph.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Application of Synthetic Biology

ACS Synthetic Biology: Application of Synthetic Biology, Nathan Hillson, Ph.D., Joint BioEnergy Institute, DOE

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iGEM Teams Sponsored by GenScript since 2009

GenScript-sponsored teams from around the world have won accolades at Regional and World Championship Jamborees for their innovative research. Read about their projects and awards below!

2019 iGEM Teams

iGEM Team Montpellier
The BrownStanfordPrincetn iGEM team
iGEM Toronto

iGEM Giant Jamboree 2019

Back Bay Social Happy Hour Boo Party
Teams visiting GenScript booth
Visiting team posters and presentations
Workshop by 2019 TED Fellow- Christopher Bahl, Ph.D.
GenScript at Career Booth

Winners of 2019 iGEM Proposal Competition

Congratulations! GenScript iGEM proposal review committee is pleased to announce the five winning teams as follows:

iGEM Team Montpellier
The BrownStanfordPrincetn iGEM team
iGEM Toronto
iGEM 2019 Lubbock TTU
iGEM Team Ruperto Carola Heidelberg

Each sponsored team will be eligible to receive:

$2,000 of free GenScript products and services
$2,000 as a bonus team award

GenScript GenBuilder cloning kit
GenScript E. Coli Top10 Chemical competent cell
DpnI restriction endonuclease
GenScript QuickClean II PCR Extraction Kits
GenScript Sanger Sequencing

2018 iGEM Teams

	Awards and Medals
iGEM Munich 2018	Overgrad First Runner Up Overgrad Best Entrepreneurship Overgrad Best WIKI Overgrad Best Presentation Overgrad Best Software Tool Overgrad Best Manufacturing Project
iGEM at Stony Brook University	Gold Medal
iGEM_UCL	Silver Medal
The University of Washington iGEM team	Silver Medal
Virginia iGEM 2018	Bronze Medal

2015 iGEM Teams

2015 iGEM Teams sponsored by GenScript	Country	Project	Award
Cornell University	USA - NY	Team Cornell genetically engineered E. coli to produce entericidin B peptide, providing resistance to microbes that cause bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD).	Best Environment Project, Undergrad Best Applied Design, Undergrad Best Supporting Entrepreneurship, Undergrad
Nagahama iGEM	Japan	Team Nagahama synthesized geraniol synthase genes from to provide volatile bacteria that can preserve food without electricity.
University College London (UCL)	UK	Team UCL introduced controllable neurotransmitter biosynthetic pathways into gut microbes to treat mental illness.	Best Supporting Entrepreneurship, Overgrad Nominated for Best New Composite Part, Overgrad
University of Helsinki and Aalto university	Finland	Team Aalto-Helsinki engineered E.coli to create propane from cellulose.
University of West Bohemia (Pilsen) AND Carles University (Prague)	Czech Republic	Team Czech Republic developed an IOD Band system, using antigen recognition and cellular communication to identify circulating tumor cells.	Finalist, Undergrad First Runner Up, Undergrad Best Health and Medicine Project, Undergrad Best Software Tool, Undergrad Best Model, Undergrad Nominated for Best Applied Design, Undergrad Nominated for Best Wiki, Undergrad Nominated for Best Presentation, Undergrad
Wisconsin Lutheran College	USA - WI	Team WLC focused on expanding phage therapy by developing a new method to isolate bacteriophages that infect pathogenic bacteria.	Nominated by Best Education and Public Engagement, Undergrad
Colorado State University	USA - CO	Team CSU engineered E.coli to produce terpenoids by breaking down frying oil.
Evry	France	Team Evry engineered S.cerevisiae to create a yeast immunotherapy targeting melanoma tumor cells.
Birkbeck - University of London	UK	Team Birkbeck produced a viral modular chassis from lambda phages to detect pathogenic bacteria.
London Biohackspace	UK	Team London Biohackspace used synthetic biology to create yeast strains that could be used in DIY homebrew kits.
Rock Ridge High School	USA - VA	Team Rock Ridge HS created a bacterium that mimics insect-specific symbiotic bacteria to treat Lyme Disease.
Tec_Guadalajara (Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Guadalajara)	Mexico	Team Tec_Guadalajara expressed a 2-gene metabolic pathways in yeast to produce industrial levels of graphene.
Tufts	USA - MA	Team Tufts used Clostridium difficile toxin B to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 into epithelial cells and target deleterious genes.
University of Minnesota	USA - MN	Team UMN used viral 2A sequences to optimized synthesis of beta carotenoids in yeast.
University of Pennsylvania	USA - PA	Team Penn developed a biological analog of an octocoupler, mimicking cell-cell communication with bioluminescence.

2014 iGEM Teams

2014 iGEM Teams Sponsored by GenScript	Country	Team Project	Team Awards
Aachen	Germany	Team Aachen developed a novel biosensor system called Cellock Holmes that detects pathogenic bacteria on solid surfaces using a low-cost, rapid and portable technique.	Best Supporting Software, Overgrad Safety Commendation, Overgrad Best Measurement Project
UC Berkeley and UCSF	USA	Team UCSF & UCB used cellular communities to model collective behaviors emergent from individual autonomous rules. Building upon quorum sensing mechanisms in the bioluminescent bacteria V. fischeri, they constructed a community averaging circuit in yeast.	Best Presentation, undergrad
Eindhoven	Netherlands	Team TU-Eindhoven engineered a new way to make genetically-engineered bacteria more resilient for use in environmental or biomedical applications, by designing two Clickable Outer Membrane Proteins that can allow bacteria to be easily encapsulated by a protective, biocompatible PEG shell.	Best New Application Project, Undergrad
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	Team Zurich developed "Mosaicoli" cells that contain genetic circuits combining quorum sensing molecules with logic gates in order to model how complex patterns found in nature can emerge from simple rules, and to create new tools for creating biological computers.	Best Model, Overgrad
Cornell	USA	Team Cornell designed a novel lead remediation / heavy metal filtration system including bacterial strains engineered to simultaneously express heavy metal transport proteins and metallothioneins.
Groningen	Netherlands	Team Groningen developed a new bandage, called LactoAid, to prevent common burn wound infections without the use of antibiotics. Lactococcus lactis was genetically engineered to secrete three multimodal infection-preventing molecules upon detection of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa at the wound site.
NTNU-Trondheim	Norway	Team NTNU-Trondheim BioBricks that allow the insertion of transgenes into the photosynthetic organism Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. to lay the groundwork for environmental innovations.
Tufts	USA	Team Tufts expressed a merRNA from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in E. coli to sequester cyclic di-GMP and inhibit biofilm formation.
Ga Tech	USA	Team Georgia Tech addressed the problem of dissolved methane entering water sources during fracking. They engineered E. coli to produce soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) in order to conver methane into the less volatile methanol, which can then be treated by further remediation pathways or extracted for commercial use.
University of York	UK	Team York developed EcoCADMUS (E. Coli CAdmium DecontaMination Universal System), a new system to provide a safe and effective way to remove Cadmium and Sulfate from wastewater.
Bordeaux	France	Team Bordeaux worked to engineer ELASTICOLI -- E. Coli that generate elastin polymers that have the durability and flexibilty of plastics without posing the environmental risks of non-biodegradable plastic waste.
U. Penn	USA	Team Penn characterized the magnetotactic bacterium in terms of its cadmium tolerance, magnetism, and applications for synthetic biology.
Tübingen	Germany	Team Tuebingen created a system for the enzymatic conversion of blood erythrocytes from blood types A, B and AB to the universal donor blood type O.
Wisconsin Lutheran College	USA	Team WLU-Milwaukee worked to engineer a probiotic bacterium to secrete the cellulase enzyme that will break down indigestible cellulose in plant material to its digestible glucose components, so that plant material that would ordinarily be indigestible waste can instead be converted into digestible sugar.
CSU_Fort_Collins	USA	Team CSU Fort Collins worked to build a pathway that breaks down spent frying oil in order to manufacture a value-added terpenoid.
Manchester	UK	Team Manchester created a novel treatment for obesity by engineering E. coli into a "sugar sponge" that absorbs excess carbohydrates before they can be taken up in the human intestines.

2013 iGEM Teams

2013 iGEM Teams Sponsored by GenScript	Country	Team Project	Team Awards
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg	Germany	Team Freiburg developed the uniCAS universal toolkit that enables customizable gene regulation in mammalian cells utilizing the CRISPR/Cas9 system for specific targeting of DNA sequences, which can be matched with different effector domains for efficient gene activation or repression.	Regional Gold Medal Advance to World Championship Regional Finalist, Europe Best New BioBrick Part or Device, Engineered World Championship Best Foundational Advance Project
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Mexico	Team TecMonterrey engineered bacterial cells to fight cancer, by targeting anaerobic bacteria to the hypoxic tumor microenvironment where they can secrete therapeutic proteins that induce apoptosis selectively in tumor cells.	Regional Gold Medal Advance to World Championship Best Presentation Best Human Practices Best New BioBrick Part or Device, Engineered
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Team SJTU-Bio-X created a Metabolic Gear Box combining light sensors with CRISPR interference technology to allow in vivo metabolic flux regulation. As a proof-of-principle, they demonstrated light-inducible repression of fatty acid synthesis.	Regional Gold Medal Advance to World Championship
Nanjing University	China	Team Nanjing-China designed the Atrazine Elf, a bacteria that can sense, uptake,and degrade the ubiquitous herbicide atrazine from soil and water.	Regional Gold Medal Advance to World Championship
Hokkaido University	Japan	Team Hokkaido created a Random Operon Shuffling Kit to mix and match transcriptional promoters and ribosomal binding sites in order to optimize gene expression.	Regional Silver Medal Advance to World Championship
Turgut Ozal University	Turkey	Team ATOMS-Turkiye sought to fight cancer by engineering gut e. coli to detect the EpCAM antigen present on cancer cell membranes and to express cancer-specific apoptotic proteins under the control of bacterial quorum-sensing mechanisms.	Regional Gold Medal
Bandung Institute Technology (ITB)	Indonesia	Team ITB_Indonesia designed a bacterial cell biosensor for aflatoxins (ubiquitous mutagens and carcinogens produced by fungal growth on improperly stored nuts and other staple foods) in order to improve food safety.	Regional Silver Medal
UNAM School of Science	Mexico	Team Ciencias-UNAM engineered gut-dwelling E. coli to fight gastritis by secreting antimicrobial peptides under the control of quorum-sensing mechanisms upon detection of gastritis-causing H. pylori.	Regional Silver Medal
LIMES Institute at the University of Bonn	Germany	Team Bonn generated a photoswitachble protein degradation system employing a light-sensing domain from Avena sativa to allow blue-light-inducible degradation of any protein of interest.	Regional Bronze Medal
Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica	Costa Rica	Team Costa_Rica_Cibus engineered bacterial cells to transform whey into biodiesel by expressing genes that increase the ability to metabolize lactose into triacylglycerols.
Rutgers University	USA	Team Rutgers aimed to limit the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by developing a self-regulatory system for degrading virulent factors using quorum-sensing mechanisms in pathogens such as pseudomonas aeruginosa.

2012 iGEM Teams

2012 iGEM Teams Sponsored by GenScript	Country
Autonomous University of Nuevo León	Mexico
Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg	German
Boston University	USA
Caltech	USA
ITESM University	Mexico
Johns Hopkins University	USA
MIT	USA
PeKing University	China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
University of St. Andrews	England
University of Tokyo	Japan

2011 iGEM Teams

2011 iGEM Teams Sponsored by GenScript	Projects	Latest Developments
Uppsala-Sweden	Setting the color Improving the existing multichromatic sensing systems by expanding the number of useful wavelengths.	Advance to World Championship
NYMU-Taipei	Tailoring Your Avatar Create wireless neuro-stimulator, focusing on achieving remote neuro-stimulation to minimize the invasion and damage to the neuron.	Advance to World Championship
SJTU-BioX-Shanghai	Condon Switch Controlling Protein Biosynthesis Designing a set of Codon-Switches that regulate target protein biosynthesis (translation).	Advance to World Championship
St Andrews	Kill Switch Engage Bricking an antimicrobial peptide-encoding gene under the control of an inducible promoter, a kill switch was designed for E. coli suicide upon induction.	Regional Gold medal
UCL London	Supercoiliology Producing supercoiled plasmid for DNA vaccines by manipulating the expression of the gyrase enzyme.	Regional Bronze medal
UIUC-Illinois	E. chiver Dynamically Efficient Bacteria: Creating a "Bacterial Filing Cabinet".	Regional Bronze medal
Utah State	Cyano Bricks Producing high value bioproducts from Synechocystis sp PCC 6803, and studying properties of 23 promoters using dual luciferase imaging technology.	Regional Gold medal
Valencia	Water Colicin Cleaner: disinfected water by E. coli Disinfecting water pathogens by bacteriocin, which can be secreted by engineered E. coli under well controlled manners, e.g. through pH Stat<.