The final of 2015 iGEM (the InternationalGenetically Engineered Machine) Competition organized by MIT was successfullyheld from Sept 24th to 28th in Boston, the US. This year, 280 iGEM teams frommore than 40 countries and regions such as the US, Canada, Germany, The UK andFrance participated in this final. After intense competition, AHUT-CHINA Team wonthe silver medal of the final (iGEM 2015 Results available at http://2015.igem.org/Results).The instructors are Prof. Xu Xiangrong, Prof. Xu Hao, Prof. Xie Jun, etc. (http://igem.org/Team.cgi)from the School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Mathematical Science and Engineering, and Center of Engineering Practice & Innovative Education,AHUT .
AHUT-CHINA’s iGEM project, which was titled as “Nutrition Commander”, involvesthe main concept of increasing component of Acyl Phenylethanoid Glycosides(APeGs) through the method of synthetic biology in a common Chinese herbalplant—Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch. After almost nine months’ preparation andefforts, team members of AHUT-CHINA have successfully completed a series ofwork such as information research, theory design, experiment design, dataanalysis, model building, human practices and presentation design. In the finalpresentation, team members of AHUT-CHINA successfully displayed the innovationand creativity of the project, and won the silver medal of the final. Silvermedal winners of this year’s competition also include Berlin University, WuhanUniversity, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fudan University, Duke University,Columbia University, Nanjing Agricultural University, etc.
iGEM is a multidisciplinary international competition which involves many different subjects such as biology, computer science, mathematics, art design, etc.. Thisinternational competition in the field of synthetic biology aims to encourage students from all over the world to devote themselves into innovation practice,and change the world with their new ideas. Every year, iGEM competition catcheseyes from magazines as well as some traditional media giants such as Nature,Science, Scientific American, Economists and BBC around the world.
