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From 2012.igem.org

iGEM Evry 2012 achievements

Asides from having lots of fun, meeting great people, gathering around cheese and wine and lazying around the Genopole gardens during lunch break, we also did a little bit of work. Here is a list of our achievements:

Xenopus Chassis

-We brought a new multicellular chassis to iGEM
-We submitted 28 biobricks to the registry, including the first working Xenopus biobricks
-We designed a method for testing multicellular systems in Xenopus rapidly
-We provided 3 new plasmids for using this method, which include debugging tools

Hormone system

-We designed a multicellular hormonal system
-We improved the Auxin production device for use in eukaryotes
-We submitted the Tir1 auxin detection device to the registry
-We showed the first Synthetic ecosystem, with a unicellular chassis (E.coli) inside a multicellular chassis (Xenopus)

Goldenbrick

-We designed a new biobrick standard which allows one-shot coding device assembly, while still being compatible with the RFC10 standard

Modeling

-We modelled a whole multicellular system using an integrated multilayered model

Human practices

-We submitted an extensive report of our conclusions about synthetic biology in vertebrates, which is the fruit of our long reflection we conducted over the summer.