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Seventh Grader Participates in Premier Synthetic Biology Competition
Wolfgang "Wolfy" Hutton ’20 recently participated in the prestigious iGem competition hosted by MIT.
More than 250 teams from all over the world participated in the four-day International Genetically Engineered Machine competition in which student teams presented synthetic biology projects that addressed real-world problems.
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Teams worked over the summer building genetically engineered biological systems, created with standard, interchangeable parts called BioBricks from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, to operate in living cells.
Wolfy’s team, the LA BioHackers, which was made up of high school and college students, presented their work on how to create a platform to assemble and “boot up” a genome in the overgraduate division.
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