Overview of our participation in the iGEM competition in autumn 2016.

1. BIOSCIENCE
ENGINEERING TOGETHER:
PARTICIPATING AT IGEM
Bram De Jaegher
Michiel Stock

2. INTERNATIONAL GENETICALLY ENGINEERED MACHINE
➤ Annual synthetic biology competition
➤ Making new organisms: biobricks
➤ Hosted by MIT: five teams in 2004, 130 teams in 2016

3. PAST IGEM WINNERS
2014
biosensor for olive
oil quality 2015
3D printing of
biofilms 2016
system for the
control of co-
culture stability

4. UGENT 2016 TEAM

5. SOLVING WATER SHORTAGE

6. FOUR WORK PACKAGES
WP2: Filament
WP3: Biofunction
WP1: Shape
WP4: Measurement

7. WP1: SHAPE OPTIMISATION
Fogstand beetle

8. WP2: FILAMENT

9. WP3: BIOFUNCTION
+
lysatemembrane

10. WP4: FUNCTIONAL ASSAY

11. OUR INPUT

12. OUR INPUT

13. IN BOSTON: IGEM CONFERENCE

14. Presenting, learning and having fun in Boston

15. FOLLOW UP
➤ Maker City
➤ BrainBooster session
CropDesign
➤ Biodesign competition
➤ Bachelor project on 3D
printing
➤ PLOS iGEM collection

16. OUR POSITIVE EXPERIENCES