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