Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Our
UWaterloo
iGEM
(international
Genetically
Engineered
Machine)
team
presented
their
2013
project
at
the
North
American
Regional
competition
on
October
5. The
competition
involved
64
undergraduate
teams
from
across
the
US
and
Canada.
Their
project,
on
"Retransmittable
and
Modifiable
Intercellular
DNA
Messaging"
won
them
the
prize
for
Best
Poster
Presentation
in
their
division
and
Gold
Medal
Standing
overall.
They
were
also
among
the
teams
selected
to
advance
to
the
World
Championship
competition
at
MIT
in
November.
The team members from the Faculty of Mathematics are:
John Drake (Applied math)
Brandon Fung (Applied Math)
Samantha Hirniak (Mathematical Physics)
Drew Neish (Statistics)
Vedang Vyas (Applied Math/Pure Math)
Paul Reginato (Biology, Joint Math)
Matt Smart (Math)
James Hawley (Math)
