Convince the judges you have helped any registered iGEM team from a high-school, different track, another university, or institution in a significant way.
iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights. We refer to these activities as Human Practices in iGEM.
Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated and addressed one or more of these issues in the context of your project.
Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project.
Demonstrate a functional proof of concept of your project. Your proof of concept must consist of a BioBrick device; a single BioBrick part cannot constitute a proof of concept.
Show your project working under real-world conditions. To achieve this criterion, you should demonstrate your whole system, or a functional proof of concept working under simulated conditions in the lab.
Our team developed Simulink model predicting the current production of EMFC by combining multiple set of Michaelis-Menten kinetics and Butler-Volmer equation. Developed model predicted value of current density after stabilization to be 0.06A/m^2, which was highly similar to the stabilized current density of actual EMFC, 0.07A/m^2. Developed model is possible to be applied to any kind of research using MFC or EFC as their research topic, by only changing the variable pre-set by our team. Developed model is freely open to everybody on wiki page, and it is easily modifiable since Simulink allows easy, visual sketching of the reaction pathway. By changing the variable, or number of enzyme used, fellow synthetic biologists will be able to easily predict how their EMFC or EFC, MFC will function and plan additional experiments according to the model results.
We contributed to the society at large through various activities related to synthetic biology and bio-battery.
We participated in international energy exhibition, seminar, associated bio-conference and also participated in educational and public engagement aimed at different members (from student to local residents) by magazine and social media.
Based on our experience of running a booth in international energy exhibition, we not only gained insight on the energy industry but also estimated the applicability of our research results.
To boost interest in synthetic biology and raise future synthetic biologists with right research ethics, we conducted various educations.
There were of course obstacles in communicating with the general public. To solve this problem, we showed the correlation between local society and ‘global warming’ which itself is an energy problem. Through the process local residents realized the problem and were able to find their own solutions. Furthermore, we could see the possibilities of solving local problems through our project.
Register the team, have a great summer, and plan to have fun at the Giant Jamboree.
