IGEM 2005 Awards

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Latest revision as of 12:03, 24 November 2005

The following awards were given out at the 2005 Jamboree by the Awards Panel

Princeton
- Best Plasmid Naming Scheme
- Best "Show Must Go On" Moment
- Best Honest Answer
- Best Simulation of a Simulation

Oklahoma
- Best "Hail Mary" Cloning
- Best "Quantitative" Answer
- Feynman's Teaching Award

ETH
- Best Wiki Award
- Most Sensitive Super Model Award
- Precision Engineering Award
- George W. Bush Geography Award

Caltech
- Best Use of Transmogrified Smiley Faces
- Best New Application Area
- Best New New Foundational Research Area
- Chuck D.'s Choice Award

Toronto
- Best Project Name (Cell-See-Us)
- Most Direct Use of Logic
- Best Advice
- Nothing-Will-Stop-Us Award

Texas
- Best Confession / Negative Control (One Year Late)
- Best Live Demo, Again
- Best Model-Driven Design
- Best Proposed Funding Mechanism

Penn State
- Best Brick Award (BBa_S03271, MotB)
- Best New Sport (Beijing 2008 or bust!)
- Best Use of Metaphor

Berkeley
- Red-Eye Award
- XXXtreme Presentation
- Best Conceptual Advance
- Most Innovative Brick Award (BBa_J01002)

UCSF
- Coolest Part
- Most Innovative Abuse of Expensive Laboratory Equipment
- Best Device Award
- Most Thoughtful Approach

Cambridge - Chemical control of bacterial chemotaxis using BioBrick parts, writing DNA to store information (flipase switch)
Texas - Working and improved bacterial photography and signal processing device (built from BioBricks)
Berkeley - Two-way cell-cell DNA communication (could lead to a bacterial internet)
MIT - Iron-induced control of any BioBrick device
Penn State - Genetic control of bacterial chemotaxis using BioBricks (MotB)
Harvard - Write and erase components for a bacterial sketch pad; stamped bacterial patterns to make "biowires."
UCSF - Wanted biological temperature detector, got a programmable biological thermometer

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-The following awards were given out at the 2005 Jamboree
+The following awards were given out at the 2005 Jamboree by the [[Awards Panel]]
-|*Princeton
+*Princeton
 **Best Plasmid Naming Scheme
 **Best "Show Must Go On" Moment
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 **Best Simulation of a Simulation
-|*Oklahoma
+*Oklahoma
 **Best "Hail Mary" Cloning
 **Best "Quantitative" Answer
-**Feynman's Teaching Award|-
+**Feynman's Teaching Award
 *ETH
 **Best Wiki Award
 **Most Sensitive Super Model Award
 **Precision Engineering Award
+**George W. Bush Geography Award
 *MIT
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 **Best Analogy
 **Second Most Parts Award
+**IKEA Idea Award
 *Caltech