Team:DTU-Denmark/Awards

Cute illustration of an Aspergillus spore with a hardhat and a safety manual, who's standing in front of another Aspergillus that has been burned quite a bit, and who's eyes are wide open

See how we did!

Every iGEM team has to consider the safety procedures and precautions associated with their experiments. However, our project has additional considerations that have to be taken into account, as we are working with a non-standard organism and are using methods that are rarely used in the iGEM competition.

Giant Jamboree

Giant Jamboree
  • Gold Medal

Nominations
  • Best Foundational Advance Project
  • Best Part Collection

Prizes
  • Best Software Tool

Our Presentation

Despite their relative anonymity, filamentous fungi are responsible for most of the industrially produced enzymes and are therefore exceptionally important to a lot of people’s everyday lives.
Project LEAP was founded in response to the acute lack of publicly available resources for synthetic biology work within filamentous fungi, and therefore aimed to expand the synthetic biology toolbox for these organisms.
Originally, the project aspired to create synthetic promoter libraries for filamentous fungi, yeast, and moss – but following valuable discussions with several companies and scientists, the team decided to develop a software that would enable the creation of promoters for any organism, and attempted to test the function of said software in Aspergilli.



(1) ATCC, Aspergillus niger van Tieghem (ATCC® 1015™) product information, accessed 7 September 2019
product description

The logos of our three biggest supporters, DTU Blue Dot, Novo Nordisk fonden and Otto Mønsted fonden The logos of all of our sponsors, DTU, BioNordica, Eurofins Genomics, Qiagen, NEB New England biolabs, IDT Integrated DNA technologies and Twist bioscience