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Team:British Columbia/Achievements
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Achievements
- Won the trophy for Best Model at the iGEM North America Jamboree in Toronto
- Advanced to the iGEM final Jamboree at MIT with gold medal status
- Produced a functional cinnamaldehyde biosynthetic pathway in E. coli starting from phenyalanine
- Produced a functional vanillin biosynthetic pathway in E. coli starting from p-coumaric acid
- Biobricked Cas9, showed expression and began to characterize it's activity E. coli
Medal requirements
- Submitted 40 and characterized 25 new biobrick parts
- Submitted Cas9 (BBa_K1129006) as our favorite functional part and showed evidence of immunity against phage using CRISPR components.
- Obtained ethics approval to survey public’s perception of GMOs with the aim to create a marketing strategy for a GM Yogurt, following interviews with dairy industry and academic professionals
