Talking Synthetic Biology — Launch of Synthetic Biology Dialogue Report
Venter does it again — Landmark paper published by the J. Craig Venter Institute
Redesigning ribosomes — Nature paper by the Chin lab
11 November 2008
The UK teams put on an impressive show at the iGEM 2008 Jamboree (8-9 Nov at MIT), bringing back three Gold medals (Edinburgh, Imperial and Newcastle) and two Bronze medals (Bristol and Cambridge).
In addition to their Bronze medal, the Bristol team won a Special prize for Best Model - they used the BlueCrystal supercomputer to help with the simulations for their 'Bacto-Builders' project.
The Imperial team comes back laden with glory, having been awarded a further two prizes in addition to their Gold medal: an Area prize for Best Manufacturing Project, and a Special prize for Best New BioBrick Part (BBa_K143032).
The iGEM 2008 Grand Prize went to the team from Slovenia, for their development of an engineered vaccine against the bacteria Helicobacter pylori. The first runner-up for the Grand Prize was the Freiburg team, with Caltech a close second.
Nearly 80 teams from around the world took part in this year's Jamboree - congratulations to all!
