Team:Sydney Australia/achievements



We were successful inside and outside of the lab over the course of this project and achieved many requirements for the bronze, silver, and gold medal. We were very proud of our results especially given we are a small team and had to undertake iGEM during our university semester. As with any research project, there are many more strategies that could be undertaken and much more work that could be done. We are excited to see how future iGEM teams can use our project to build on their own.

Below we have outlined our achievements in line with the bronze, silver, and gold medal requirements:


Bronze medal


Register for iGEM, have a great summer (although it's Winter in Australia) and attend the Giant Jamboree
  • See everyone there!
Complete the judging form
  • Completed form can be found here.
Create a description of the team’s project
  • Description can be found here.
Plan to present a poster and talk at the iGEM Jamboree
  • Poster printed, presentation created
Create a wiki with a clear attribution of each aspect of your project
  • The wiki home page is here and our attribution page can be found here


Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device


Silver medal


Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected. 
  • See here for the characterisation and evidence our part works as expected


Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry. 
  • Yep! They are on the registry


Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated and addressed a human practices issue in the context of your project
  • Our Human Practices focused on education, environmental sustainability, and industry. See our educational motivation here and our public engagement activities here and here. See our environmental sustainability and industry projects here.


Gold medal


Expand on your silver medal Human Practices activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project. 
  • See how we used our industry research to change the nature of our project through the integration of LacI into our design here.


Help any registered iGEM team from a high-school, different track, another university, or institution in a significant way by, for example, mentoring a new team, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, modeling/simulating their system or helping validate a software/hardware solution to a synbio problem
  • See our collaboration activities here, and see our contribution to the Eindhoven cloning guide here.


Improve the function OR characterization of a previously existing BioBrick Part or Device


Given the evidence above, we believe we have successfully fulfilled the requirements to become Sydney's first gold medal winning team.