The Road to the Jamboree
Welcome to the College of William & Mary’s 2015 iGEM Blog! This blog documents the W&M iGEM Team’s progress on our project over the summer, from June 1 to August 8. It is written by a key component of our project and honorary team member, GERALD. In September, Gerald will accompany us to the 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree. At the Jamboree, we will contend for medals and compete for awards against hundreds of teams from schools around the world! Read on to learn more about iGEM, Gerald, our project, and our team.
About the iGEM Competition
From the iGEM website: The iGEM competition is an annual, world wide, synthetic biology event aimed at undergraduate university students, as well as high school and graduate students. Multidisciplinary teams work all summer long to build genetically engineered systems using standard biological parts called Biobricks. iGEM teams work inside and outside the lab, creating sophisticated projects that strive to create a positive contribution to their communities and the world."The iGEM competition is an annual, world wide, synthetic biology event aimed at undergraduate university students, as well as high school and graduate students. Multidisciplinary teams work all summer long to build genetically engineered systems using standard biological parts called Biobricks. iGEM teams work inside and outside the lab, creating sophisticated projects that strive to create a positive contribution to their communities around the world."
Our TeamWe are a group of eight undergraduate students from the College of William and Mary. We include Biology, Mathematical Biology, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Chemistry, and Computer Science Majors. We each split our time between Wet Lab, Dry Lab, and Outreach work every day in order to complete a well-researched project on time while also communicating our results with the general public.
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Our ProjectIn short, our project is meant to measure transcriptional noise and characterize the noise associated with different promoters in E. coli. We realize this definition may not mean much to most people, so we have also prepared a few pages that explain, in detail, the ideas behind our project. You can check that page out by clicking the button below.
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