Team:Pasteur Paris/Medals

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Bronze medal criteria

Explanation Criteria achieved
Registration and Giant Jamboree Attendance We registered for iGEM then had a great summer time. We are now waiting to attend the Giant Jamboree.
Competition Deliverables We plan to make the competition deliverables met on time.
Attributions We completed the attributions page on our wiki.
Characterization / Contribution We successfully completed the InterLab Measurement Study.

Silver medal criteria

Explanation Criteria achieved
Validated Part / Validated Contribution We created a new BioBrick part as expected : BBa_K2616000. This part permits to express pro-NGF and secrete it in the extracellular medium using E. coli type I secretion system. We used inducible promoter T7, in order to control pro-NGF production thanks to IPTG induction. We also added an His-tag in N-terminal in order to purify it. pro-NGF is addressed to Type I Secretion System by fusing to it the the 60 C-terminal aminoacide of alpha-haemolysin HlyA. Since the export peptide is not processed when passing through the secretion pore, we separated pro-NGF from this 60 aminoacid long sequence by a cleaving site for TEV protease Nter-ENLYFQ-Cter. This part also permits to secrete TEV protease, under the same promoter, via this same secretion system. We succeeded in characterizing our pro-NGF by sequencing and mass spectrometry but could not purify it from the media.
Collaboration We hosted the 4th Parisian Meet-Up where we organized a Tiny Jamboree in the morning in order to practice with all the French teams for the Giant. We also organized and attended round tables about bioethics with multiples professionals during the afternoon.
We collaborated with other iGEM teams for the Interlab (Sorbonne U Paris), by sharing and testing protocols (WPI Worcester) as well as other non-scientific collaborations. You can read about them on this page .
Human Practices We thought with care of every aspect of our project by interviewing many experts of their fields (biofilms, infections, microfluidic and prosthesis) but also associations for the right of amputees as well as surgeons and took into account their advices in our final biological interface as well as our prototype Our juridic team has worked on the ethic and safety issues surrounding the use of GMOs inside the human body. Because we also thought about the consequence of a possible releasing of our GMOs in the environnement, we also integrated a thermosensitive Kill-Switch inside our bacteria. You can read about it on this page.

Gold medal criteria

Explanation Criteria achieved
Integrated Human Practices Integrated HP
Improve a Previous Part or Project
Model Your Project We modelled how NGF is produced in our modified E. Coli, its diffusion in an environment and its consequences on neurons growth. It helped to predict how to use NGF in our experiments.