| Bronze |
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1. Registration and Jamboree Attendance |
Alternative roots has registered and will be attending Giant Jamboree Boston. We hope to meet you there! |
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2. Competition Deliverables |
We have completed the following tasks: #1. The wiki (its right here!) #2. Please visit our poster in the poster hall #3. Our presentation is scheduled for 26th October, between 11.00 and 12.30 in room 309 (Session F) and finally, #4. The judging form was completed and submitted on the 12th October. |
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3. Attributions |
The attributions can be found here. |
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4. Characterization/contribution |
We chose option 4.1. Our team collected and deposited data for the 2018 Interlab study. The data has been accepted by iGEM and can be found here |
| Silver |
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1. Validated Part / Validated Contribution |
We have submitted several new, validated parts to the registry this year. These are BBa_K2797002 - a new streptomycin resistance cassette, shown to confer streptomycin resistance to E. coli and BBa_K2797004 and BBa_K2797007 - new GFP reporter constructs with improved characteristics compared to the mutGFP in frequent use within the registry. |
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2. Collaboration |
We have undertake three different collaborations this year. First, we have conducted wet-lab experiments for the Exeter team. Specifically we have generated data on the impact of perchlorate on three bacterial species. Second, for Sorbonne University we provided some visualisations of their concept that they have been able to use in their outrach and engagement activities. Third, we sent water samples to the team from Warwick University. These Collaborations are detailed here. |
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Human Practices |
We contextualised our Human Practices, within the Newcastle City Council plan to make Newcastle into a 'Smart City.' We have proposed an additional scenario to those already outlined, one concerning sustainable agriculture; an urban farm inside the Victoria Tunnel which runs underneath the city. This conceptual design project forced us to think carefully about the safety regarding GMOs when used in contained environments. Before designing the urban farm, we spoke to: local farmers, several commercial urban farms, a social food enterprise and a research director. We used this design exercise to bring together all that we learned from our comprehensive stakeholder engagement |
| Gold |
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Integrated Human Practices |
This design exercise outlined in the silver criteria integrates / was informed by all elements of our project: stakeholder engagement, wetware, hardware, and safety. Once we had consulted the relevant stakeholders and felt we had sufficient information we began to feed this in to the design and execution of the project. We have document on our wiki how our project has been influenced by our Human Practices work.
See our integrated Human Practices journey here. |
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Improve a Previous Part or Project |
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Model Your Project |
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Demonstration of Your Work |
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