Team:CCA San Diego/medal criteria

Medal Criteria

Bronze

Register and Attend: We’ve packed our bags for Boston and hope to enjoy our first Giant Jamboree as a team.

Team Wiki: Our wiki is complete, with the standard pages under the iGEM logo fulfilling all the requirements posted and submitted before the Nov. 1st deadline

Project Attributions: Check out our Attributions page under the team tab! We’ve thanked our collaborators, advisors, teachers, and associates for the achievements we’ve had during this year’s competition.

Team Poster: We look forward to presenting our poster at the Giant Jamboree, it was a pleasure designing and crafting the story behind our project through this poster.

Team Presentation: We look forward to presenting on the subject of PAH’s and how we can degrade them through innovations in synthetic biology.

Safety Forms: Completed all of the safety forms, including the Safety Check-in,both About our Lab forms, and the Final Safety Form.

Judging Form: We’ve completed a judging form that we’ve linked at the bottom of this page

Registry Part Pages: We’ve submitted our parts to iGEM under the judging form, this year we submitted 6 individual parts to the BioBrick registry.

Interlab: We completed this year’s interlab, with our results listed under the interlab tab

Silver

Gold
• Integrated Human Practices: Taking the advice of the scientists we talked to, we used their techniques and guidance to improve our testing procedures. PAH’s and bioremediation are fairly niche topics, so we sought out industry professionals like Roger Prince, who invented bioremediation as a concept, and talked to BP, who likewise deal with these kinds of crises regularly. Their insight into how we could test nonpolar, generally insoluble materials in a biological setting was key to how we formatted our entire testing protocol.
• Improving the function of a BioBrick: We took pSB3K3, and replaced the origin of replication with an Rk2 to generate a shuttle vector that can be replicated and expressed in a wider range of bacterial vectors. This resulted in the creation of BBa_K2491030.
• Modelling: We did an intensive modelling of the degradation pathways and mechanisms behind our project’s degradation of fluorene, naphthalene, and phenanthrene using Pymol and the Swiss Model softwares. The models can be found under our Model page.
• Demonstration: Our project was demonstrated to be effective by a demo experiment we conducted. More details can be found under the Demo tab.

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