Team:Harvard/Medal Criteria

Medal Criteria

Bronze

Register and attend: plan to have a great time at the Jamboree! ✓
Deliverables

Team wiki ✓
Poster ✓
Presentation ✓
Registry Parts Page ✓
Sample Submission ✓
Safety Forms ✓
Judging Forms ✓

Attributions ✓
Characterization / Contribution: Interlab ✓

Silver

Validated part and contribution ✓
Collaboration: Collaborated with Boston University hardware team to produce a customizable and low cost microfluidic device ✓
Human Practices: Informed public about importance of bioethics and safety via presentation and operating a help desk. Integrated human practices into larger community through our global perspectives outreach initiative. ✓

Gold

Integrated Human Practices: collaborated with 7 other iGEM teams for a global perspective of synthetic biology ✓
Model: modeled curli pathway to optimize polymer production ✓
Proof of concept: showed potential for polymer optimization in a two pronged approach: engineering cells for higher polymer production via RBS engineering, customizing low cost lab equipment alternatives for optimal production ✓