Achievements

Here is a summary of the achievements of the Imperial College 2009 team. For more information about each achievement, please click on the relevant links below:

BioBricks

• Submitted 20 documented parts to the Registry.
• Improved the characterisation of the BBa_K098995 thermosensitive promoter by successfully testing with GFP.
• Submitted new coding regions for 2 enzymes, PAH and cellulase, as well as a pentapeptide, opiorphin.
• Designed new BioBricks using those genes coding for encapsulation of the cell.
• Functional BioBrick BBa_K200022 characterised, and results uploaded onto registry page.

Engineering

• Explored the Manufacturing Considerations that we thought important to manufacture The E.ncapsulator as a viable product.
• Conceptualised a novel engineering technique of integrating our 3 modules.

Ethics

• Explored the current Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology, as well as those specific to our project.
• Took part in the Valencia ethics survey, and became the first team to win the Valencia Ethics gold medal.
• Investigated the safety implications of the project as a whole.

Others

• Helped the iGEM newcomers UCL by sending them a plate of Registry DNA kit plate from 2007.