BIOSCIENCE ENGINEERING TOGETHER:

PARTICIPATING AT IGEMBram De Jaegher

Michiel Stock

INTERNATIONAL GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MACHINE

➤ Annual synthetic biology competition

➤ Making new organisms: biobricks

➤ Hosted by MIT: five teams in 2004, 130 teams in 2016

PAST IGEM WINNERS

2014

biosensor for olive oil quality 2015

3D printing of biofilms 2016

system for the control of co-

culture stability

UGENT 2016 TEAM

SOLVING WATER SHORTAGE

FOUR WORK PACKAGES

WP2: Filament

WP3: Biofunction

WP1: Shape

WP4: Measurement

WP1: SHAPE OPTIMISATION

Fogstand beetle

WP2: FILAMENT

WP3: BIOFUNCTION

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lysatemembrane

WP4: FUNCTIONAL ASSAY

OUR INPUT

OUR INPUT

IN BOSTON: IGEM CONFERENCE

Presenting, learning and having fun in Boston

FOLLOW UP

➤ Maker City

➤ BrainBooster session CropDesign

➤ Biodesign competition

➤ Bachelor project on 3D printing

➤ PLOS iGEM collection

OUR POSITIVE EXPERIENCES