The 2009 iGEM Jamboree just wrapped up at MIT yesterday. For a summary of the results, check out 2009.igem.org. Rob Carlson also has a few posts at synthesis.cc. I thought I’d mention some of the cool work that didn’t make it into any of the awards that folks here at Ginkgo saw. (Too much good [...]

Sorry to get this post up somewhat late, the afternoon has been somewhat hectic. Slovenia once again had an extremely strong project and in the opinion of the judges were deserving of the grand prize. Slovenia developed some very nice vaccine technology to fight Helicobacter pylori. The first part of the project was to engineer [...]

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Turns out that being a judge requires one to actually be a judge rather than write blog posts. Grabbing a few minutes to write a post while a somewhat nervous team peppers their presenter with questions to make sure they are ready to give the talk. The second session this morning was very interesting. Princeton [...]

It’s 10.30am on Saturday morning and I’ve been to two meetings and three talks so far today. iGEM must have started. One of my meetings was the pre-game meeting for judges. Great to see how seriously the judges are taking the job of judging 80 diverse teams all of whom are giving oral presentations and [...]