EPFL Team awarded at iGEM, November 2, 2009
EPFL Team awarded at iGEM, November 2, 2009
The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) organized by MIT awarded a team from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne this year. Composed of 10 graduate students, 4 PhDs and 4 professors, the only Swiss team involved in the competition recieved the special prize of the Best New BioBrick Part or Device, engineered along with a team from Freiburg (Germany). Their project was to create a light-responsive genetic tool that could induce phenotypic changes in a more localized, preciser and faster fashion than currently available chemical-based methods.
Read more about the EPFL project.
iGEM is an annual undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition that asks student teams to built biological systems (and operate them in living cells) from a kit of biological parts (given by the Registry of Standard Biological Parts).
More info about iGEM
