{"250901":{"#nid":"250901","#data":{"type":"news","title":"iGEM Team to Compete in World Championships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s Georgia Tech iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) team was one of only 15 teams in North America chosen to compete in the World Championship Jamboree at MIT, November 1-4, 2013. The team\u2019s goal is to develop cells and platelets that display sensory-response behaviors and act as \u2018smart\u2019 biobots which can duplicate the function of cells responsible for repair and adaptation. This is the first time in the four years of Georgia Tech\u0027s participation in iGEM that the team has been awarded the gold medal and advanced to the world championship. The team will travel to MIT in early November for the upcoming competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENearly 300 colleges and universities from around the world registered a team and participated in this competition. Teams designed and employed standard biological parts in order to carry out a designated function within living cells. Early in October, the Georgia Tech iGEM team was awarded a gold medal at the North American regional jamboree. The team will now advance to the world championship. Out of the 65 registered teams in North America, only 13 undergraduate teams received a gold medal and advanced to the world competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech iGEM team consists of seven undergraduate students: Tilak Balavijayan, Rachael Blackstone, Spencer Cooper, Haoli Du, Casey Haynes, Jack Jenkins, and Jessica Siemer. The team was assembled in the summer of 2013 and has been working towards expressing human integrin sensors on the surface of E. coli cells, a feat that has not yet been accomplished. The team is advised by Anton Bryksin, Vince Fiore, and Haylee Bachman, lab space was provided by Thomas Barker in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Georgia Tech and partial financial support by the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method. The iGEM Jamboree is the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech team was one of only 15 teams in North America chosen to compete."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s goal is to develop cells and platelets that display sensory-response behaviors and act as \u2018smart\u2019 biobots which can duplicate the function of cells responsible for repair and adaptation. This is the first time in the four years of Georgia Tech\u0027s participation in iGEM that the team has been awarded the gold medal and advanced to the world championship. 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Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAdrainne Proeller\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["adrianne.proeller@bme.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}