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From 2011.igem.org

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

— Witold Pilecki

Americas
Team	Notes
Team:Alberta	Converting biomass to biodiesel using Neurospora crassa.
Team:Arizona State	Countering antibiotic resistance with CRISPR.
Team:Baltimore
Team:Bard-Annandale
Team:Berkeley
Team:British Columbia	Something to do with monoterpene? Controlling the weather, perhaps?
Team:Brown-Stanford	Terraforming Mars with some sort of Cyanobacteria / E. coli symbiosis?
Team:BU Wellesley Software
Team:BYU Provo
Team:Calgary
Team:Caltech	Bioremediation of organic pollutants.
Team:Colombia
Team:Columbia-Cooper
Team:Cornell
Team:Duke
Team:Gaston Day School
Team:GeorgiaState
Team:GeorgiaTech
Team:Grinnell	Secretion of biofilm-degrading compounds from Caulobacter crescentus.
Team:Harvard
Team:Hunter-NYC
Team:ITESM Mexico
Team:IvyTech-South Bend
Team:Johns Hopkins
Team:Lethbridge
Team:McGill
Team:Michigan	Bind DNA-binding protein to E. coli surface then attach to other surfaces that have oligonucleotides.
Team:Minnesota
Team:Missouri Miners
Team:MIT	Something involving fluorescence?
Team:Nevada	Sugar production from cyanobacteria?
Team:Northwestern
Team:NYC Software	(Software) Genome analysis focusing on radiation tolerance.
Team:NYC Wetware	Making E. coli radiotolerant by using genes from Deinococcus radiodurans.
Team:Panama
Team:Penn
Team:Penn State	Radiation detector.
Team:Purdue
Team:Queens Canada	Using the worm for sensing pollutants by swimming to them.
Team:Rutgers
Team:Tec-Monterrey
Team:Toronto	Incorporating a magnetosome system into E. coli?
Team:TorontoMaRSDiscovery
Team:UANL Mty-Mexico
Team:UCSF
Team:UC Davis
Team:UIUC-Illinois	Something with sRNA?
Team:UNAM-Genomics Mexico	Hydrogen production in Rhizobium etli in Phaseolus vulgaris.
Team:UNAM-ITESM Mexico City
Team:UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil	Something involving stress?
Team:uOttawa
Team:USC
Team:Utah State
Team:UTP-Panama
Team:UT Dallas
Team:VCU
Team:Virginia
Team:Virginia Tech
Team:Washington
Team:WashU
Team:Waterloo	Creation of ribozymes that will excise out of an RNA transcript.
Team:West Point
Team:Wisconsin-Madison
Team:Yale
Asia
Team	Notes
Team:ArtScienceBangalore
Team:CBNU-Korea
Team:CTGU-Yichang
Team:Fudan-Shanghai
Team:HIT-Harbin
Team:HKU-Hong Kong
Team:HKUST-Hong Kong
Team:HokkaidoU Japan
Team:Hong Kong-CUHK
Team:HSU
Team:HUST-China
Team:IIT Madras
Team:KAIST-Korea	"Artistic E. coli".
Team:KAIT Japan
Team:KIT-Kyoto	Using quorum sensing to turn on and off GFP expression for aesthetic purposes.
Team:Korea U Seoul
Team:Kyoto
Team:Macquarie Australia
Team:Nanjing
Team:NCTU Formosa
Team:NYMU-Taipei
Team:Osaka	Radiation dosimeter using DNA repair systems to detect radiation.
Team:OUC-China
Team:Peking R
Team:Peking S	Something with cell-cell communication.
Team:Rajasthan
Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai
Team:SYSU-China
Team:Tianjin
Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen
Team:Tokyo Metropolitan
Team:Tokyo Tech
Team:Tsinghua
Team:Tsinghua-A
Team:TzuChiU Formosa
Team:UNIST Korea
Team:UQ-Australia
Team:UST-Beijing
Team:USTC-China
Team:USTC-Software
Team:UT-Tokyo
Team:VIT Vellore
Team:Waseda-Japan
Team:WHU-China
Team:XMU-China
Team:ZJU-China	Something involving using biofilms.
Europe
Team	Notes
Team:Amsterdam	Make E. coli psychrophilic (cold loving).
Team:BCCS-Bristol
Team:Bielefeld-Germany
Team:Bilkent UNAM Turkey
Team:Cambridge
Team:CongoDRC-Bel Campus
Team:Copenhagen	Removal of pharmaceutical products from water.
Team:Debrecen Hungary
Team:DTU-Denmark
Team:Dundee	Creation of bacterial microcompartments.
Team:Edinburgh	Display of cellulases on phage (via M13 pVIII) and on cell surfaces (via Ice Nucleation Protein).
Team:ENSPS-Strasbourg
Team:EPF-Lausanne	Creation of new transcription factors.
Team:ETH Zurich
Team:Fatih Turkey	Using B. subtilis to detect E. coli?
Team:Freiburg	A cheaper system for protein purification.
Team:Glasgow
Team:Grenoble
Team:Groningen	Remembering that an input has occurred and using a biological AND gate to count occurrences.
Team:Imperial College London
Team:KULeuven	Creation and prevention of ice with Ice Nucleation Protein and Anti Freeze Protein.
Team:LMU-Munich
Team:Lyon-INSA-ENS	Biofilter for radioactive waste.
Team:METU-Ankara	Methane biosensor and methane conversion into methanol.
Team:METU-BIN Ankara
Team:METU Turkey SoftLab
Team:Nairobi
Team:NTNU Trondheim
Team:Paris Bettencourt	Passing signals e.g. RNA from cell to cell via nanotubes.
Team:Potsdam Bioware
Team:Sevilla	Biological circuits using multiple different genotypes at once.
Team:Strathclyde Glasgow
Team:St Andrews
Team:TU-Delft	Expressing mussel glue protein in E. coli to attach to stuff, with inducible detachment.
Team:TU Munich	3D printing by immobilising E. coli in a gel and turning on genes only if two different coloured lasers strike.
Team:UCL London
Team:UEA-JIC Norwich	Glow-in-the-dark bacteria, protists, and moss.
Team:ULB-Brussels
Team:UNIPV-Pavia
Team:UNITS Trieste
Team:UPO-Sevilla	Biological memory with bistable toggle switches.
Team:Uppsala-Sweden	Light-induced gene expression.
Team:UTP-Poland
Team:Valencia
Team:Wageningen UR	Oscillating, synchronised gene expression in E. coli, and communication along fungal hyphae.
Team:Warsaw
Team:WITS-CSIR SA	E. coli that search for a ligand then, upon finding it, return to a point of origin and report.

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