iGEM Competition

	mSSB students are encouraged to participate to the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition organized every year in Boston. Students may prepare this annual competition at iSSB (Genopole®) over Summer, following their training period.

mSSB students led several iGEM-Evry teams

The iGEM Evry 2012 team received for the French Froggies project a Gold Medal, the Best Model and the Best Human Practices Awards (Europe) and Advanced to World Championship. The team designed a synthetic orthogonal hormonal system in a multicellular organisms, Xenopus. For further information about the 2012 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2012 website.
The iGEM Evry 2013 team received for the Iron Coli project a Gold Medal, the Best Human Practices Award (Europe) and Advanced to World Championship. The team engineered in Escherichia coli an iron detecting and chelating device as a novel treatment for hemochromatosis and thalassemia. For further information about the 2013 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2013 website.
The iGEM Evry 2014 team received for the Sponge Patrol project a Bronze Medal at the World Championship. The team designed a bioremediation tool based on the filtration capacity of sponges with the aim to decrease the marine pollution and protect aquatic ecosystems. For further information about the 2014 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2014 website.
The iGEM Evry 2015 team received for the YETI project a Silver Medal at the World Championship. The team engineered in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae innovative and promising new biological systems for modulating the immune system and target tumor cells. For further information about the 2015 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2015 website.
The iGEM Evry 2016 team received for the Let’s PLAy project a Bronze Medal at the World Championship. The team aimed to produce in Pseudomonas putida the poly-lactic acid (PLA), a bioplastic ready to be used for biomedical applications, food packaging and 3D printing. For further information about the 2016 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2016 website.
The iGEM Evry Paris-Saclay 2017 team received for the Psicose project a Gold Medal at the World Championship. The team engineered Escherichia coli to produce and detect as a whose cell biosensor a rare sugar, D-Psicose. For further information about the 2017 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2017 website.
The iGEM Evry Paris-Saclay 2018 received for the PEPTalk project a Gold Medal at the World Championship and was nominated for Best New Composite Part prize, Overgrad. The team repurposed the small peptide based signalling system of SPbeta group bacteriophages of Bacillus subtilis for application in Escherichia coli. For further information about the 2018 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2018 website.
The iGEM Evry Paris-Saclay 2019 received for the Fat and Fabulous project a Gold Medal at the World Championship and was nominated for Best Measurement prize, Overgrad. The team developed a launchpad for bioproduction of medically-relevant Conjugated Linolenic Acids (CLnAs), which is a class of rare fatty acids with three conjugated bonds using the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, a powerful chassis organism, whose metabolism is naturally poised for lipid production. For further information about the 2019 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2019 website.
The iGEM Evry Paris-Saclay 2020 was launched. The team is interested in Rosewood species that are the most trafficked wildlife products and is working on developing a cheap, portable and easy-to-use biosensor that will accelerate the identification process and thus empower local authorities to identify loggings species and origins in situ. For further information about the 2020 iGEM competition, visit the iGEM 2020 website.

mSSB students were also members or advisors of other iGEM teams

2009

• iGEM Paris 2009 team – Gold Medal – Best Human Practices Advance
• iGEM SupBiotech-Paris 2009 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Sweden 2009 team – Bronze Medal

2010

• iGEM Edinburgh 2010 team – Gold Medal – Best Model
• iGEM IIT-Madras 2010 team – Gold Medal
• iGEM UNAM-Genomics Mexico-2010 team – Gold Medal

2011

• iGEM IIT-Madras 2011 team – Gold Medal – Advance to Championship – Safety Commendation Asia – Best New BioBrick Part, Natural, Asia (BBa_K572005)
• iGEM Paris-Bettencourt 2011 team – Gold Medal – Advance to Championship – Regional Finalist, Europe – Best Presentation, Europe
• iGEM Valencia 2011 team

2012

• iGEM Trieste 2012 team – Gold Medal – Advance to Championship
• iGEM Valencia 2012 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Valencia-Biocampus 2012 team – Gold Medal

2013

• iGEM BIOSINT Mexico 2013 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM ETH-Zurich 2013 team – Gold Medal – Advance to Championship – Best Poster, Europe, Overgrad – Best Information Processing Project, Overgrad
• iGEM Valencia-CIPF 2013 team
• iGEM Valencia-Biocampus 2013 team – Gold Medal – Advance to Championship – Best New Application Project, Undergrad

2014

• iGEM BIOSINT Mexico 2014 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Paris-Saclay 2014 team – Gold Medal
• iGEM Warwick 2014 team – Gold Medal

2015

• iGEM Bordeaux 2015 team – Gold Medal
• iGEM IONIS-Paris 2015 team – Gold Medal
• iGEM Warwick 2015 team – Gold Medal

2016

• iGEM IONIS-Paris 2016 team – Gold Medal – Nominated for Best Applied Design, Overgrad – Nominated for Best Environment Project, Overgrad – Nominated for Best Presentation, Overgrad
• iGEM Paris-Saclay 2016 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Peshawar 2016 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Warwick 2016 team – Nominated for Best Software Tool

2017

• iGEM IONIS-Paris 2017 team – Gold Medal – Nominated for Best Food and Nutrition Project – Nominated for Best Education & Public Engagement, Overgrad – Nominated for Best New Composite Part, Overgrad
• iGEM UPMC Paris 2017 team

2018

• iGEM Newcastle 2018 team – Gold Medal – Nominated for Best Measurement, Overgrad
• iGEM Sorbonne U Paris 2018 team – Bronze Medal
• iGEM Warwick 2018 team – Gold Medal

2019

• iGEM Newcastle 2018 team – Gold Medal – Nominated for Best Measurement, Undergrad
• iGEM Warwick 2019 team – Silver Medal