Team:Harvard BioDesign/Results
Accomplishments
Created a modular platform for bacterial adhesion Engineered type 1 pili to bind to nickel, stainless steel, and Caco2 colon cancer cells
Bronze Medal Requirements
- ✔ register for iGEM, have a great summer, attend the Giant Jamboree
- ✔ complete the Judging Form
- ✔ created a wiki and documented parts on the Registry
- ✔ made a poster and present at the Jamboree
- ✔ create an attribution page
- ✔ document 14 new biobricks
Silver Medal Requirements
- ✔ experimentally validated biobricks through binding assays with nickel, stainless steel, and CaCo2 cells
- ✔ submit 12 biobricks to the Registry
- ✔ address Policy & Practices by considering the safety of our system and discussing it with experts
Gold Medal Requirements
- ✔ integrated Policy & Practices by transforming into Nissle
- ✔ collaborated with WPI by testing their antifreeze assay and having them do a biofilm formation assay on our pili; attended two NEGEM meetings with the other New England teams
- ✔ improved the characterization of BBa_K902065 and documented it on the parts page