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Bronze Medal Requirements

Registered for the Jamboree

Cheers! Hope to see every single iGEM team at this year's jamboree!

Wiki

In Progress - you're looking at it!

Poster

In Progress

Presentation

In Progress

Judging Form

In Progress

Attributions

Check out our Attributions page!

Characterizing a Biobrick

In Progress

Silver Medal Requirements

New Biobrick

We are a cool team and helped advance biology. If you would like to find out more about how we accomplished this, check out our innovation page.

Collaboration

Our team has collaborated with several iGEM teams as well as a team of undergraduate researchers outside of the iGEM Competition. Our collaboration with the University of Minnesota (UM) iGEM team began when four UCSC team members Skyped with two members of the UM team. During the meeting, we exchanged information about our projects and our progress on them, and we noticed that the human practices portion of UM’s project was lacking; with our strong background in outreach and human practices, we helped UM develop their own. Four of our iGEM team members met the UM team at their lab in Minnesota. When talking with them, we realized that their project had much more potential value than they were aiming for; we advised their team to reach out to areas affected by their project target (mercury ion pollution), and to speak with environmental regulatory groups in Minnesota to gain insight about potential users. We also suggested they start a crowdfunding campaign so their entire team can attend the Jamboree in Boston, since they had not even considered that to be an option. We plan to follow up with UM to discuss the expansion of their human practices.

We also connected with the iGEM team in Montpellier, France, who we found through the iGEM Troubleshooting \& Collaborations Facebook page created by iGEM Thessaloniki. Their project, \textit{Vagineering}, is to create a non-hormonal contraceptive. Our projects both address inadequate access to contraception, so we were interested in collaborating with them. UCSC team members Skyped with the Montpellier members and discussed our projects and progress. We suggested that the Montpellier team spend more time developing their final product since they had not considered dosage, ways to switch off production of the contraceptive, or a delivery method. We may also teach them about riboswitches or other regulation methods that might be applicable to their project.

Our team has also participated in several smaller collaborations with other iGEM teams. We filmed a brief video collaboration with iGEM TecCEM, discussed product isolation and quantification with iGEM ULaval, completed surveys for iGEM Bielefeld and Bordeaux, and will do a perchlorate water test for iGEM Exeter.

Outside of iGEM, we partnered with a team of students from the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Guanajuato (ITESG) in Mexico. They developed methods for isolating lactose from whey, a dairy waste product. We will use the upcycled dairy waste as a low cost growth media for our progesterone-producing yeast, which we have named \textit{Y. lipolytica str. PoPPY}. Because whey can be obtained from any milk-producing animal, it is widely available throughout the world. Using the methods that ITESG developed to isolate lactose, anyone with access to a milk-producing animal can create the growth media for PoPPY.

Human Practices (Silver)

In Progress

Gold Medal Requirements

Modeling

The amazing modeling team is still working product yield and more. Be sure to follow them for updates in our modeling page. We hope to have this page filled by the end of the summer!

Integrated Human Practices

In Progress

Demonstration of our Work

In Progress

Improving an Existing Biobrick

In Progress