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Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 32700
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team was awarded gold medal standing at the recent 2015 iGEM Giant Jamboree in Boston. The Waterloo team also received awards for best poster overgrad and best software tool overgrad, as well as being nominated for the best overgrad foundational advance project.
The Waterloo team's project was called "CRISPieR: re-engineering CRISPR-Cas9 with functional applications in eukaryotic systems". The Waterloo iGEM team includes undergraduate students from the faculties of Mathematics, Engineering, and Science, including seven Applied Math and Mathematical Physics students.