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Summary:
Photo
by
Dave
Appleyard
/
iGEM
Microbiology
Undergraduates
Part
of
UW
team
That
Wins
2011
iGEM
Competition
Congratulations
to
the
University
of
Washington
International
Genetically
Engineered
Machine
(iGEM)
team
for
bringing
home
the
grand
prize
at
the
2011
iGEM
competition!
The
competition
included
160
undergraduate
teams
from
around
the
world.
On
November
8th
,
65
of
the
most
competitive
teams
that
advanced
from
regional
competitions
convened
at
MIT
to
compete
their
summer
projects.
After
deliberation,
an
international
panel
of
judges
awarded
the
UW
the
grand
prize,
the
first
time
ever
a
team
from
the
U.S.
has
won
the
award.
iGEM
is
the
premiere
synthetic
biology
competition
for
undergraduates.
Student
teams
receive
a
set
of
biological
parts
at
the
beginning
of
the
summer
from
the
Registry
of
Standard
Biological
Parts,
and
are
expected
to
use
these
as
well
as
parts
they
have
constructed
to
generate
novel
biological
systems.
This
year,
the
UW
iGEM
team
worked
on
three
main
projects.
For
their
first
goal,
they
developed
an
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