EPFL iGEM team - Gold Medal & Best New BioBrick Engineered Prize

05.11.2009 An interdisciplinary team of 10 undergrads (Bachelor's and Master's students enrolled in EPFL's Life Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering curricula: see http://2009.igem.org/Team:EPF-Lausanne/Team), coached by IBI's Sebastian Maerkl, Bart Deplancke and Matteo Dal Peraro for EPFL's second participation in the "international Genetically Engineered Machine competition" (iGEM - see http://2009.igem.org/About), landed a great success last week with a project nicknamed "E.colight", aiming at demonstrating the ability of light-sensitive fusion proteins to regulate gene expression through light control (read abstract at http://2009.igem.org/Team:EPF-Lausanne/Project_Abstract). The EPFL team brought home a "Gold Medal" and a "Best New BioBrick Part or Device, Engineered Prize", awarded at MIT during the annual iGEM jamboree held October 30 - November 2, 2009.