Newsflash:

The Cambridge team was awarded the Grand Prize at the iGEM2009 Synthetic Biology competition finals at MIT (http://2009.igem.org). This was against stiff competition from over 100 teams in top international institutions. The students (Vivian Mullin, Alan Walbridge, Shuna Gould, Siming Ma, Mike Davies, Megan Stanley and Crispian Wilson), provided a superb description of their work engineering DNA devices for transcriptional tuning and pigment production in environmental biosensors. As well as winning the overall prize for best project, the Cambridge team was awarded a gold medal, and trophy for the best project in the Environment Track.

News articles:
CUED: The Cambridge 2009 iGEM team awarded the Grand Prize
Wired UK: Building new life forms at the iGEM Jamboree
Discovery Channel
: Bright bacteria wins synthetic biology competition
National Public Radio: Students build living microbial machines
Biotechniques: University of Cambridge team wins iGEM synthetic biology competition
Technology Review: A genetically engineered rainbow of bacteria
Molecularist: Report on iGEM09, from a newbie
University of Cambridge press release: Cambridge team wins Grand Prize for iGEM2009

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iGEM2010 Jamboree results

  Grand Prize, Winner of the BioBrick Trophy: Slovenia 1st Runner Up: Peking 2nd Runner Up: BCCS-Bristol Finalists: BCCS-Bristol Cambridge Imperial College London Peking Slovenia TUDelft Track Award Winners: Best Food or Energy Project: BCCS-Bristol Best Environment Project: Peking Best Health or Medicine Project: Washington & Freiburg Bioware (Tie) Best Information Processing Project: ETHZ...
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Finding the key - cell biology and science education.

Finding the key - cell biology and science education.: "Publication Date: 2010 Sep 20 PMID: 20863704
Authors: Miller, K. R.
Journal: Trends Cell Biol

No international research community, cell biology included, can exist without an educational community to renew and replenish it. Unfortunately, cell biology researchers frequently regard their work as independent of the process of education and see little reason to reach out to science teachers. For...
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iGEM2010 sponsors

We would like to thank everyone who is helping us out with iGEM 2010.   Sponsors at the University of Cambridge:   The School of Biological Sciences, 
Department of Genetics, 
Department of Plant Sciences, 
Department of Biochemistry, 
Department of Physiology, Neurobiology & Development, 
The School of Technology, 
Department of Engineering, Division of Life Sciences, 
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (SynBio2010)   The University of Cambridge iGEM team and organisers...
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SynBio2010 course

Timetable for 2010 Work Groups for SynBio2010 tasks & student photos Synthetic Biology website in Cambridge (www.synbio.org.uk)
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iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience

iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience by Mun-Keat Looi, Wellcome Trust blog, http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/igem-the-student-synthetic-biology-experience/   European teams, including Imperial and Cambridge at the 2009 iGEM jamboree finals at MIT. Making anything work in genetic engineering is difficult in itself, but doing...
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'Building block' biology

The new field of synthetic biology aims to make biology controllable, predictable and designable. Mun-Keat Looi asks if you can really engineer a biological organism and hears how a unique competition for undergraduates is helping the field gather momentum. What if you could engineer an organism to do whatever you want: produce life-saving drugs cheaply, generate energy, or detect and clear waste from a polluted lake? And what if building that organism was like constructing a model using toy bricks or piecing together an electronic circuit? Welcome to the world of synthetic biology. "The...
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