{"id":2331,"date":"2017-10-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-907\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T22:12:14","slug":"innovation-anthology-907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/10\/24\/innovation-anthology-907\/","title":{"rendered":"#907: UofLethbridge iGEM Team Prepares For 10th Trip to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 907.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<div>2017 marks the tenth year that the University of Lethbridge has sent iGEM teams to compete at MIT in Boston.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machines.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year PhD student Taylor Sheahan and her teammates brought home gold for their project, beating out teams from around the globe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So her hopes are high for this year&rsquo;s competition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">TAYLOR SHEAHAN:<\/span> &nbsp;This year our overarching goal is to provide synthetic biology to the masses. &nbsp;So to do this, we&rsquo;re exploring a cell-free system. &nbsp;So this would include all the necessary bio machines for producing proteins outside a living cell. &nbsp;So what we&rsquo;re doing is we&rsquo;re providing a new tool for synthetic biologists that is also safer, as it is not using a living cell.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Taylor says the University of Lethbridge has also mentored a team of high school students, and they, too, will be going to Boston.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">TAYLOR SHEAHAN: <\/span>&nbsp; it&rsquo;s really exciting that we get to have students from the different come to the University and be there working on ther iGEM projects. &nbsp; &nbsp;So this year &nbsp;their project is focused on the biologically producing for printer ink. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The iGEM competition runs in Boston through the second week in November.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Learn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/div>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-10-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time once again for iGEM, and the University of Lethbridge is sending two teams to MIT in Boston, says &nbsp;PhD student and iGEM advisor Taylor Sheahan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,31,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-and-competitions","category-life-sciences","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}