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iGEM 2022 Team: Seeking Solution to the Nitrate Problem

October 14, 2022

Update: The Illinois team’s “Curli Capture” was awarded a bronze medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2022 competition. The seven-member student team worked to design proteins that can help remediate waterways suffering from the ill effects of nitrate runoff.


October 14, 2022


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iGEM 2021: Designing better enzymes to break down plastic

August 4, 2021

Polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, is a type of plastic that is widely used for packaging food and beverages, including soft drinks, juices, and water. Although PET is the most recycled plastic in the U.S., its current recycling rate is only 31%. This year’s UIUC iGEM team aims to improve that by tweaking PETase—a naturally-occurring enzyme found in Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium discovered in 2016 as the world’s first PET-eating bacterium.


August 4, 2021


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Illinois Team Tracks COVID ‘Spike’ Protein for 2020 iGEM Competition

August 13, 2020

UPDATE: The Illinois team’s “Viralizer” web tool brought home a silver medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2020 competition. Working virtually, the six-member student team created the tool to model the COVID-19 spike protein as it mutates and chart its spread, to aid in the development of new drugs & vaccines.


August 13, 2020


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iGEM Team: Cleaning up our Crops

December 4, 2019

Herbicides are an integral component of modern farming. However, glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the United States and the main ingredient in formulations like Roundup™, has recently been classified as a probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

As of 2016, Illinois alone was responsible for 8.56% of the total volume of glyphosate applied in the U.S. That’s a lot to clean up.


December 4, 2019


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Illinois team wins bronze at 2018 iGEM competition

November 16, 2018

The Illinois iGEM team won a bronze medal at the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition for their work on the relationship between lactic acid bacteria and baker’s yeast.

The iGEM competition brings together undergraduate students from across the world to present their research in synthetic biology and compete for prizes.

The Illinois team was made up of five undergraduate students: Pranathi Karumanchi, Ziyu Wang, Liam Healy, Amie Bott and Alexander Ruzicka.


November 16, 2018


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Illinois iGEM team takes on CABBI-funded synthetic biology project

August 2, 2018

This summer, a group of undergraduate students has teamed up with CABBI researchers to pursue an ambitious research project.

Their work is in preparation for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, which brings together undergraduate students from across the world to present their research in synthetic biology and compete for prizes.

This year’s team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is made up of five students: Pranathi Karumanchi, Ziyu Wang, Liam Healy, Amie Bott and Alexander Ruzicka.


August 2, 2018


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UIUC_Illinois iGEM Team Claim Bronze at Annual Giant Jamboree in Boston

November 25, 2016

The University of Illinois International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team recently endeavored to create an innovative promoter library that sought to provide researchers greater control of gene expression while liberating them from some of the constraint associated with the current categories of promoters. The Illinois team’s unique promoter library received a bronze medal at the annual iGEM Giant Jamboree this September.


November 25, 2016


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iGEM team wins silver medal

May 10, 2015

Digital memory versus analog: it’s a question that’s plagued music lovers for years. In biology, however, the focus is overwhelmingly digital: 0 or 1, on or off, genes expressed or not expressed. But what would analog memory look like in a cell, and how might it be useful?


May 10, 2015


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