iGEM Competition
The annual iGEM competition held in October or November, where teams all around the world gather to present the projects they have been developing all year and compete for awards.
What is the Jamboree?
Component of a nucleotide, can be either Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C), Thymine (T), or Uracil (U)
Nitrogenous Base (or just "base")
DNA that has been modified to include genes from multiple sources
What is recombinant DNA?
These are the 6 committees that make up UMaryland iGEM as a whole
Wet lab, Modeling, Finance, Human Practices/Awards, Design, Membership
This protein with the initials RFP is often used as a marker to confirm/measure gene expression
What is Red Fluorescent Protein?
Name 2 special prizes iGEM teams can win at the competition
From any of the following: Education, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Inclusivity, Integrated Human Practices, Measurement, Model, New Basic and Composite Parts, New Improved Part, Part Collection, Plant Synthetic Biology, Presentation, Safety and Security, Software, Sustainable Development Impact, Wiki
A small circular DNA molecule found in bacteria and some other microscopic organisms.
What is a plasmid?
Tool from NIH that regions of similarity between nucleotide or protein sequences (Hint: name is an acronym)
BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
The two ways to fulfill next semester's fundraising requirement (or get it done early now!)
1 concessions event or 6 hours miscellaneous iGEM volunteering
Virtual lab notebook website where we do sequence design and record what we do in lab each day
Benchling
Theme/group that an iGEM project competes within, such as Agriculture, Bioremediation, Therapeutics, Oncology
What is a village?
specific sequences in DNA at which different restriction enzymes cut.
What is a restriction site?
a sequence of three nucleotides which together form a unit of genetic code in a DNA or RNA molecule.
What is a codon?
What is "umarylandigem"?
These 4 steps (which start with the letters D, B, T, and L) with make up the engineering design process/cycle that iGEM teams follow.
Design, Build, Test, Learn
Website designed and coded by iGEM teams communicate your entire project to the world. This includes providing background information, describing project goals, and showing experimental results.
What is a Wiki?
Site of RNA polymerase binding, initiation site for gene transcription, "on switch"
What is a promoter?
tool or carrier (ex. plasmid) used to transfer foreign genetic material into another cell
What is a vector?
The date of our next football concessions event
Saturday November 22nd (vs Michigan!)
the (re)design and (re)construction of new biological parts for a useful and ethical purpose
What is synthetic biology?
The name of UMaryland iGEM's project for 2025
What is RGBio?
functioning unit of DNA under the control of a single promoter
What is an operon?
Change in genotype / phenotype of the recipient bacteria due to assimilation of external DNA by a cell
What is bacterial transformation?
These three professors are UMaryland iGEM's advisors
Dr. Ed Eisenstein, Dr. Jason Kahn, Dr. Brian Blair
manipulation, modification, and recombination of DNA or other nucleic acid molecules in order to modify an organism or a population of organisms
What is genetic engineering?