Learning is fascinating and I want my students to feel capable to use their knowledge to address their own goals after completing my courses. I am happy to have the opportunity to be responsible for several courses at KTH l and am also lecturing adhoc in external settings.
A particular educational setting I find highly inspiring is iGEM. Since 2015 I have had the great honor of being founding PI and main supervisor for the joint iGEM Stockholm team. iGEM is an annual competition in synthetic biology originated at MIT in Boston open for students all around the world.
As part of this competition I have annually been hosting a multidiciplinary group of 15-20 students from KTH, KaroIinska Institutet, Stockholm University, Konstfack, Berghs school of communications develping their own researach projects at our KTH AlbaNova laboratory.
2019
Click here to read more about the current Stockholm team!
2018
2018 the Stockholm team focused on the Baltic sea and the issue with release of antibiotics into our waterways. By repurposing and engineering an enzyme found in a wood degrading fungi they developed a process to degrade antibiotics in a new way in a waste water treatment plant. Their project was awarded gold medal and they were the overall winners in both the environmental category and best integrated human practices category. In addition they were top nominated for best presentation, best entrepreneurship, best public education and engagement, best model and best product design.
2017
2017 the Stockholms Igem team shifted gears and were focusing on clearing mucous in airways of COPD, asthma and other patients using recombinantly produced and delivered mucose degrading enzyme. Their project was awarded with nomination in best entrepreneurial category as well as brining home the goal medal in the Medicine category.
2016
2016 the Stockholm igem team managed to bring home two gold medals for their project addressing the medical condition of chronical wounds by functionalizing spider silk. Read more of their project here.
2015
2015 the Stockholm team with students from KTH and KI managed to bring home a gold medal and was nominated for “Best Health and Medicine Project”. Please read more about the team and their project on their website, twitter or in media (below).
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