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The 2024 Utah Valley University (UVU) iGEM Team is inspired to continue the work of the silver medalist 2023 Team. Their efforts are focused on harmful algal blooms in Utah Lake and other water bodies throughout the state. The 2024 team consists of 15 second to fourth-year college students, with various backgrounds in biotechnology, bioinformatics, forensic science, microbiology, business, and two advisory professors.

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About iGEM

The iGEM Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing synthetic biology, education, competition, and the development of an open, collaborative, and cooperative community. The iGEM competition has been running for 20 years. More than 400 teams from 66 different countries participated in the competition in 2023, making it a truly international event. Over 4,300 synthetic biology projects have been tested at iGEM and over 200 startups have launched from iGEM competitions.
 
Visit iGEM.org for more details.

The Competition

The iGEM Grand Jamboree is a four-day synthetic biology expo in Paris, France, where students, academics, investors, industry reps, journalists, and the public gather while student teams from around the world compete for medals and awards. The teams in this competition design, build, and test projects using cutting-edge techniques in synthetic biology. During the judging session at the Grand Jamboree, students are tasked with producing a variety of materials and presenting them to the panel. This conference is an excellent opportunity for the team to compete and network with scientists and entrepreneurs from around the world. It also provides a substantial opportunity for UVU to be represented on an international scale. The UVU iGEM team will be able to use feedback from the competition to push toward publishing their research and product. There is no comparable domestic conference in the biotechnology field like the iGEM Grand Jamboree. There is also no other college competition that requires students to create a biological machine.
 

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Goal: Harmful algal blooms are commonly caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus. We hope to synthesize a biological machine to act like a sponge and reduce the amounts of each in the environment, preventing these algal blooms from the start!

Last year’s project (https://2023.igem.wiki/uvu-utah/index.html)

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