The EBICS cosponsored MIT iGEM team placed first in the health and medicine track and fourth overall out of 160 teams at the 2011 iGEM jamobree.  
 
The MIT iGEM project “Tissues by Design” focused on tissue self-construction to achieve specific patterns of cell differentiation utilizing genetic circuits. Exploring three aspects of tissue formation, cell-cell communication pathways, intracellular information processing circuits, and cell-cell adhesion, the team investigated how programmed interactions between cells can lead to the emergence of desired global patterning.  MIT Team particiants included EBICS REU student Mariola Szenk.
 
 
The International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition is an undergraduate synthetic biology competition in which student teams build operational biological systems using biological parts of their own design in combination with biological parts from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts.
 
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2011 MIT iGEM Undergraduates:
 

• Charles Hsu
• Clara Park
• Divya Arcot
• Grant Robinson
• Jenny Cheng
• Jonathan Chien
• Kenneth Hu
• Louis Lamia
• Mariola Szenk
• Michelle Dion
• Semon Rezchikov
• Tiffany Huang
• Tyler Wagner