The W&M 2015 Outreach website is now at www.wmigem2015.weebly.com
About the iGEM Competition
From the iGEM website: The iGEM competition is an annual, world wide, synthetic biology event aimed at undergraduate university students, as well as high school and graduate students. Multidisciplinary teams work all summer long to build genetically engineered systems using standard biological parts called Biobricks. iGEM teams work inside and outside the lab, creating sophisticated projects that strive to create a positive contribution to their communities and the world."The iGEM competition is an annual, world wide, synthetic biology event aimed at undergraduate university students, as well as high school and graduate students. Multidisciplinary teams work all summer long to build genetically engineered systems using standard biological parts called Biobricks. iGEM teams work inside and outside the lab, creating sophisticated projects that strive to create a positive contribution to their communities around the world."
Our TeamWe are a group of nine undergraduate students from the College of William and Mary. We include Biology, Mathematical Biology, Neuroscience, and Computer Science Majors. We each split our time between Wet Lab, Dry Lab, and Outreach work every day in order to complete a well-researched project on time while also communicating our results with the general public.
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Our ProjectOur team aims to design a way to control the speed of gene expression where a pre-characterized genetic part can be inserted into the gene to tune its expression speed in a predictable and simple way. Our approach to accomplish this goal is to build a collection of protein degradation tags which can be swapped into a genetic circuit to modify a protein’s degradation rate.
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