iGEM Athens in da house 🧬🦠⚙️ #igem2022 #igem

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻✌🏻

Medals waiting for who🤔 iGEM Headquarters

Do you want to know more about our project #PERspectives? We iGEM Athens are now presenting at Plaza 1! #iGEM #iGEM2022 #Jamboree ⁦iGEM Headquarters⁩ ⁦iGEM Community⁩

Final day of iGEM Headquarters #Jamboree 🥳✌️🤘

It's time to meet the new iGEM Athens team for 2023!🎉 We are excited and ready to do our best in order to take Athens to new heights! Stay tuned, the best is yet to come...

We won the Mindspace University for Life Sciences Competition!🥇 This is a program organized and delivered by entrepreneurs-mentors and judges from Silicon Valley, Greece and Europe. It takes us closer to a gold medal and potentially founding a start-up company.

Our project "SCENTIPD" is hopefully the creation of a diagnostic kit for the detection and semi-quantification of specific VOCs from skin sebum, that are associated with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). We use the modified M13 Bacteriophage as a colorimetric biosensor.

Joy Milne's ability to detect Parkinson’s Disease (PD) by scent, along with the fact that the M13 bacteriophage with its elongated body and pVIII proteins on the surface kinda looks like a centipede, gave rise to our project logo and name, ScentiPD!✨

Here is the ScentiPD app, made to analyze the colorimetric output of our kit. After sufficient real world data has been acquired, it will enable us to distinguish between samples suggestive of Parkinson's Disease and healthy controls using Deep Learning.

Our team received a Gold Medal🏅, running in the Diagnostics track and the Model, Education and Entrepreneurship subcategories. After a year of preparation, we participated in the 20th International Synthetic Biology Competition iGEM, taking place on November 2-5 in Paris.

We want to thank the Prime Minister of Greece,  Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for inviting us to the Maximos Mansion in order to meet our team in person and learn more about our project. It was our honor!

As we are finishing up for this year, we want to thank our sponsors for believing in us! Their contribution was crucial for our project and we wouldn't have made it without it! Also, we want to thank our universities supporting our effort scientifically, as well as financially!

Our team, iGEM Athens 2024 at the 2nd Panhellenic Student Conference of Bioscientists in Alexandroupolis on the 22nd-24th of March.🔬🧫🧬

This is iGEM Athens 2024 team🧬 We invite you to join us in this year’s journey🔬🫶🏽