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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	Creation of a Taq polymerase BioBrick.
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	Biosensor for Naphthenic acids.
Team:Caltech	Bioremediation of organic pollutants.
Team:Colombia
Team:Columbia-Cooper
Team:Cornell	E. coli that will lyse themselves upon receiving some specific light wavelength.
Team:Duke
Team:Gaston Day School	Nitrate detector with output as Red Fluorescent Protein.
Team:GeorgiaState
Team:GeorgiaTech	Countering antibiotic resistance with CRISPR.
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	Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by using its quorum sensing system.
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	Synthesis of rhamnolipids.
Team:Penn
Team:Penn State	Radiation detector using Phage Lambda lytic switch system.
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	Improval of S. cerevisiae for use with BioBricks.
Team:USC
Team:Utah State
Team:UTP-Panama
Team:UT Dallas
Team:VCU
Team:Virginia	Using S. cerevisiae to produce factors which heal human wounds.
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	Production of antifreeze using E. coli and a gene from the Rhagium inquisitor beetle.
Asia
Team	Notes
Team:ArtScienceBangalore
Team:CBNU-Korea
Team:CTGU-Yichang
Team:Fudan-Shanghai	Nitrate detection; switching between different colour production; something else.
Team:HIT-Harbin
Team:HKU-Hong Kong
Team:HKUST-Hong Kong	Degrading indole using toluene-4-monooxygenase, to boost antibiotic susceptibility.
Team:HokkaidoU Japan
Team:Hong Kong-CUHK	Light-driven ion pump to produce electricity.
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	Production of alkanes from glucose.
Team:Kyoto
Team:Macquarie Australia	"Bacterial light switch" involving bacteriaphytochrome and heme oxygenase.
Team:Nanjing
Team:NCTU Formosa
Team:NYMU-Taipei	Something involving magnetosomes to transduce a signal; also DNA for information storage.
Team:Osaka	Radiation dosimeter using DNA repair systems to detect radiation.
Team:OUC-China	Promotion and inhibition of bacterial strains by each other.
Team:Peking R	Something involving riboswitches and synthetic ribosome binding sites.
Team:Peking S	Something with cell-cell communication.
Team:Rajasthan
Team:SJTU-BioX-Shanghai	Translational control.
Team:SYSU-China
Team:Tianjin
Team:Tokyo-NoKoGen
Team:Tokyo Metropolitan
Team:Tokyo Tech	Rock/Paper/Scissors bacteria; urea production; isoprene for cloud seeding.
Team:Tsinghua	Something involving movement of proteins.
Team:Tsinghua-A	Oscillation between red and green fluorescence, using quorum sensing.
Team:TzuChiU Formosa
Team:UNIST Korea
Team:UQ-Australia	24-hour bacterial oscillator.
Team:UST-Beijing
Team:USTC-China	"Self-organized bacteria".
Team:USTC-Software	(Software) Visual tool for analysing dynamics of biological systems.
Team:UT-Tokyo
Team:VIT Vellore
Team:Waseda-Japan	Something involving responding to different colours of light.
Team:WHU-China	Bacterial communication with light; also colour photography using E. coli.
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	Cell-free biosensor for bisphenol A.
Team:Bilkent UNAM Turkey	Production of protein from algae e.g. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Team:Cambridge
Team:CongoDRC-Bel Campus
Team:Copenhagen	Removal of pharmaceutical products from water with cytochrome P450.
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	Biological smoke detector by detection of acetaldehyde.
Team:Fatih Turkey	Using B. subtilis to detect E. coli?
Team:Freiburg	A cheaper system for protein purification.
Team:Glasgow
Team:Grenoble	Determination of metal concentration by growing reporter bacteria on an IPTG gradient.
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	Metal biosensors with a focus on quantification.
Team:Lyon-INSA-ENS	Biofilter for radioactive waste.
Team:METU-Ankara	Methane biosensor and methane conversion into methanol.
Team:METU-BIN Ankara	(Software) Web based tool for construct planning.
Team:METU Turkey SoftLab
Team:Nairobi
Team:NTNU Trondheim	Detection of bacterial stress; based on the E. coli "stringent response" which produces ppGpp.
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	Synthetic biome where bacteria and eukaryotic cells depend on each other to survive.
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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