iGEM Leuven 2022
SenSkill
Dry-lab member · KU Leuven Group T · sole developer of the team wiki
Context
iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) is an annual synthetic biology competition where 400+ student teams from around the world present a research project. Submissions are judged through a wiki website that each team builds themselves, then graded on a gold/silver/bronze scale.
Our KU Leuven team developed SenSkill, a biosensor designed to detect colorectal cancer. Thirteen of us split into a wet lab handling the biology and a dry lab covering everything else.
The Dry Lab
The dry lab had two deliverables: the team website and a mathematical model that could predict the presence of cancer from the fluorescence emitted by the biosensor's marker.
I joined to help with the model but ended up taking sole ownership of the website. The model itself was developed in MATLAB by the rest of the dry-lab team.
The Website
I designed and built the wiki end-to-end on my own: HTML/CSS with Bootstrap on the front and a Flask backend, deployed under iGEM's wiki infrastructure. It pulls together the team's project description, parts, safety, human-practices outreach, and awards.
Alongside the build I coached team members on how to upload and edit their own content so the wet lab could keep their pages up to date without going through me.
Go look at the wiki ↗. Easiest way to see what I actually built.
The Team
The full iGEM Leuven 2022 team. Thirteen of us split between wet and dry labs over the course of a year.
Result
The website earned a gold medal at the jamboree on its own criteria. The project as a whole was awarded a silver medal.