Warwick iGEM 2022

iGEM is a global synthetic biology competition aimed at University and High School students.This year, 360 teams from across the world took part in iGEM, including a team from Warwick - team PyRe. The team attended the Grand Jamboree in Paris, on 26-28 October.

After delivering their presentation and attending the judging session, the team were awarded a gold medal for their project. They were also nominated for the Best Environment Project for their excellent work on the detection and degradation of pyrethroid pesticides. Read about the project.

Team PyRe members:

• Aayush Patel (2nd Year Biochemistry)
• Mujie Chen (2nd Year Neuroscience)
• Ashmitha Srirasan (3rd Year Biomedical Science)
• Yvette Lo (3rd Year Biomedical Science)
• Jerry Yu (4th Year MBio Biochemistry)
• Prem Ravichandran (2nd Year Computer Systems Engineering)
• Zak Fulk (3rd Year Biomedical Systems Engineering)
• Ng Yi Fan (2nd Year Economics)

The team were supported by Dr Fabrizio Alberti and Dr Alexander Darlington (Engineering), and postgraduate advisors Sandie Lai, Daniel Richmond (Chemistry), Michaël Dagne Tadesse and Nathan Burton.

See the iGEM 2022 resultsLink opens in a new window.

Presentation winner

Emma Reilly, a third year SLS Biochemistry student, has won the best project presentation award at the British Society of Plant Pathology (BSPP) Summer Student Symposium 2021. Emma's project was entitled 'Harnessing pathogenicity mechanisms to engineer plants tolerant to heat stress'.

Student Space Society National Award 2021

Congratulations go to third year Biochemistry student Katie Savva who won the UKSEDS (UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) Outreach Ambassador of the Year award.

Katie has a strong interest in space and has recently been accepted onto the European Space Agency’s Spin Your Thesis 2021 campaign, with her team Noah's Arc, carrying out research into the movement of nutrients into vesicles under hypergravity.
Find out more

You might also like to listen to an interview Katie recently gave about her interest in biochemistry, space and quidditch! YouTube interviewLink opens in a new window (6 Feb 2021)