*2011 Alberta iGEM teams pose for a photo at this year's spring workshop (includes University of Alberta, University of Calgary and University of Lethbridge teams)
Client/Partners
High quality undergraduate students from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, and University of Lethbridge study the platform research area of Genomics.
Opportunity
The Alberta Genetically Engineered Machine (aGEM) practice session is offered as part of Tech Futures’ mandate to support high quality students and research in the province. The students, who are aiming to compete at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), use this weekend to present their iGEM projects to a national judging panel and their peers to refine their work.
Status
Since the inception of the program in 2007, Tech Futures-supported teams participating in aGEM have gone on to win numerous medals at the iGEM competition. Teams have not only successfully developed viable research projects, but have gone on to improve and refine their research projects. The 2010 project from the University of Alberta aGEM/iGEM team has been spun into a commercial endeavour called Genomikon.
Related Links
Team Alberta (University of Alberta)
Team Calgary (University of Calgary)
Team Lethbridge (University of Lethbridge)
Learn more about Tech Futures' aGEM program
2011 Results
aGEM Trophy Winner
University of Lethbridge
2011 iGEM Americas Regionals (South, Central and North America)
The University of Lethbridge team placed in the "Sweet Sixteen" sharing the spotlight with teams such as Brown-Stanford, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT and Yale.
The University of Calgary's team was also recognized for having the best Environment Project.
| Regional Winner |
Finalists |
Advance to World Championship
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Best Experimental Measurement Approach |
Best Model |
Best Wiki
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Washington
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Brown-Stanford |
Berkeley |
British Columbia
*supported at aGEM 2011 |
Calgary
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British Columbia & Northwestern
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Calgary
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Lethbridge
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Brown-Stanford |
BU Wellesley Software |
| Washington |
BYU Provo |
Calgary
*supported at aGEM 2011 |
Yale
|
Caltech |
Colombia |
| Columbia-Cooper |
Cornell |
| Grinnell |
Harvard |
| ITESM Mexico |
Johns Hopkins |
|
Lethbridge
*Trophy winner at aGEM 2011
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MIT |
| Northwestern |
Penn State |
| Queens Canada |
UC Davis |
| uOttawa |
UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil |
| UTP-Panama |
Washington |
| Waterloo |
Wisconsin-Madison
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| Yale |