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Judging Criteria

Medals

Bronze

• The UPO-Sevilla team is registered in iGEM 2011. Actually, we were among the first four teams in registering this year.

• We have completed the judging form.

• We have design a Wiki full of information about our project and our team.

• We presented a poster and a talk in the iGEM Jamboree.

• We have submitted 31 new BioBricks and BioBrick compatible plasmids. We have sent the physical DNA for 13 new parts and plasmids (our favourite parts). And we have characterized 5 new parts and plasmids, which works as expected. Also, we have characterized by mathematical modeling, multi-agent modeling and quantitative experimental assays a previous existing BioBrick. We have entered this information in the experience section of the part in the Registry.

Silver

• We have demonstrated that two new BioBrick compatible plasmids for BioBrick genome integration (BBa_K510000, BBa_K510012) designed by our team works as expected. The portable insertion site of the Tn7 transposon and its derivatives (BBa_K510022) has been fully characterized and also works as expected. Finally we have characterized the correct funcion or our impreoved flip-flop (made by two modules: BBa_K510019, BBa_K510019)

• We have characterized the operation of these two plasmids (BBa_K510000, BBa_K510012) and these three parts (BBa_K510022, BBa_K510019, BBa_K510036); and we have entered this information into the “Main Page” and “Experience page” sections of their Registry entry.

Gold

• We have improved the function of an the existing BioBrick Device BBa_K177038 which works as a Flip-Flop system by designing an improved Flip-Flop which includes translational and proteolysis control besides of transcriptional control of the preexisting Flip-Flop. We have entered the information of the two new devices which make the improved Flip-Flop (BBa_K510019, BBa_K510036) in the Registry.

• About Human Practice issues, we have carried out several approaches for spreading the basis of Synthetic Biology. We have launched the first blog about Synthetic Biology in Spanish, Tornillos y Genes, with 13.000 visitors by now. This blog will allow an easier dissemination of Synthetic Biology among Spanish-speaking people, and will engage in SB more people from different backgrounds. We have developed a SB spreading program in High schools of Spain, consisting of talks given by the student members of the team. Moreover, we have taken part in two science fairs for all public: Sevilla Science Fair and the Week of Science of Pablo de Olavide University.