• Tracks
• Energy
• Environment
• Food and Nutrition
• Foundational Advance
• Health and Medicine
• Information Processing
• Manufacturing
• New Application


• New Tracks
• Art and Design
• Community Labs
• Hardware
• High School
• Measurement
• Policy and Practices
• Software

Introduction

iGEM has traditionally been about getting students and teams into wetlab synthetic biology. We require teams to build and submit parts, to build biological machines and to generate data to show us how they work. We have done a good job of getting students into wetlab synthetic biology and have many teams that work in our traditional tracks.

We care about being inclusive and allowing more students and teams to participate in our competition. Because we want to be more inclusive, we are introducing the hardware track. Teams have made their own hardware for many years, even if they are not competing for a specific award. To reward effort in this area, we are creating a new track to allow teams to focus on building their own synthetic biology hardware.

Details

Teams have made many different types of synthetic biology hardware in the past. We are looking for hardware that is relevant to iGEM teams, synthetic biology and several sub-areas of the competition. Some suggestions for areas that are relevant are:

1. Microfluidics (now a part of the Hardware track)
2. Measurement equipment
3. Environmental sensing equipment (see Cornell 2014 and Dundee 2013 for examples)
4. Hardware/wetware interface equipment (see UC Davis 2014 for example)
5. Laboratory automation systems
6. Low cost lab equipment

Previous Projects

There have been some truly excellent hardware projects in previous years of the competition.

Awards

Information will be posted soon. Please stay tuned!

Requirements

Information will be posted soon. Please stay tuned!

Medal Criteria

Information will be posted soon. Please stay tuned!

Hardware Track Committee

We have a great committee to help coordinate the Hardware track in 2015.