User:Domenico Bellomo/iGEM

What is iGEM?
The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells.

TU Delft at iGEM
With TUdelft, we have joined the competition in 2008 and 2009. In both cases we achieved gold evaluation for the quality of the work and won a special cathegory prize: for "Best Wiki" in 2008 and for the "Best Information Processing Project" in 2009.

iGEM Links
For reference on the general iGEM competition: igem.org

For the TUDelft projects: TUDelft 2009 wiki TUDelft 2008 wiki

For iGEM results: iGEM 2008 results iGEM 2009 results

TUDelft iGEM projects in the News
The projects had quite some publicity on national newspapers and radios. Here are some links:
 * "Noorderlicht Radio" interview to the TUDelft team on 09 Nov 2009
 * for Bacterien" ("Relay-race for bacteria"), AD newspaper (6th Nov 2009)
 * relay race wins gold and award"
 * pimpen bacteriën" ("Students pimp bacteria")
 * biologie: Open source biologie" ("Synthetic biology: Open source biology")
 * "Creatief met genetische lego - studenten bouwen thermometerbacteriën in internationale competitie" ("Being creative with genetic lego - Students build thermometer bacteria in an international competition"), NRC newspaper (August 21 2008)
 * maken een thermometerbacterie" ("Students engineer a thermometer bacterium")