Newcastle iGEM synthetic biology team wins gold!
Members of the Newcastle University iGEM 2008 'Bugbuster' team show us their certificates
CellML in Synthetic Biology
Today the Newcastle team, which Mike Cooling and James Lawson and were advisors to, and which used extensively some modular CellML modelling technology developed by us specifically for multi-scale modelling in synthetic biology, won a gold medal at the International Genetic Engineering Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston, Massachusetts.
This is a tremendous, internationally recognised achievement for the team, against 84 other teams from Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia. It puts the team on a par with teams from other great institutions from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Imperial, Berkeley and several others who also gained Gold medals for their contributions to different categories.
It also greatly validates CellML as a modelling tool of choice for complex, multiscale modelling, and the Auckland Bioengineering Institute as the core partner for their modelling effort can justifiably celebrate with them on this result.
The team wiki for the Newcastle entry provides further details on their project. The CellML models constructed by the Newcastle team will be uploaded to the repository.