We registered for iGEM, had a great summer so far, and now we are looking forward to attending the Giant Jamboree!

We completed and submitted the Judging Form.

We created a description of our project in time.

We documented all the parts taken from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, of which two were redesigned and newly characterized.

We are going to present a poster and give a talk at the Giant Jamboree.

We created this website for you to learn about every aspect of our iGEM project.

We documented and submitted two new basic parts to the iGEM parts registry and created a part collection with 14 parts.

These new parts we also submitted to the iGEM Parts Registry.

We characterized two newly designed hybrid promoters and were able to show that one of our combined promoters, P_lac-lldR (K1847010), reacts in a clear AND gate fashion to a combination of lactate and IPTG. To our knowledge, combining these two elements has never been attempted before.

We went to two different schools, thaught the children about what DNA is, performed experiments with them and published an article about it in the local newspaper.

We told the ETH-student magazine polykum about iGEM and gave an interview.

We contributed to the Newsletters from Amoys team, met with the Darmstadt team, helped with a survey from EPFL and provided Colombias team with protocols and advice when their transformations did not work.

We interviewed many different experts from various fields, such as medical doctors, an expert from the ethics commission, the founder of a start-up or an expert in patents law and integrated the advice and ideas we got from them into the design.

We collaborated with the team from Stockholm by testing their constructs.

We Improved and characterized variants of the E. coli LldR promoter lldPRD-operon, on which there is only a limited amount of information present in the Parts Registry and in the literature.