We have a double update! Shortly after our first interview, we were able to sit down with Dr. Jonathan Herington and learn more about the ethical concerns that go into our project! A huge thank you to Dr. Herrington for sharing his time and expertise with our team.

We have had our first P&P Interview! Thank you so much to Dr. Kuhar for sharing your time and knowledge with our team! Your guidance has been invaluable for our project from both a scientific and ethical standpoint. #iGEM #iGEM2026 #universityofrochester #SyntheticBiology #Agriculture #research

Photos from our Outreach and Education event with Upward Bound! Thank you so much to the coordinators of Upward Bound for having us and working with us to organize this Outreach Opportunity!

We have officially received our iGEM 2026 distribution kit!! Full unboxing up in our TikTok and Instagram pages!

Another Sponsor Alert!! Shoutout to @qiagen.bsky.social for donating a Ni-NTA Fast Start Kit, Spin Miniprep Kit, PCR Purification Kit, and a Gel Extraction Kit!! Thank you so much for your support (:

Huge thanks to Flinn Scientific for providing our team with Sodium Chloride, Agar, and Disposable powder free nitrile gloves!

Mini Hardware Update!! A couple days ago we had some exciting developments with a core component of our first sprayer prototype: the piezoelectric disk which vibrates at a frequency of 110 kHz, atomizing liquid. 🤯💦 Here is a video of our hardware manager, Sophia, testing it out!

As we get deeper into our project this summer, we're looking back at some photos from our Wet-Lab Bootcamp earlier in the season! Thank you to our amazing TA's, Michael, Carrie, and @urochester.bsky.social teaching labs for putting this together! @urengineering.bsky.social #iGEM #syntheticbiology

The 2026 University of Rochester iGEM Team's crowdfunding page is live! Help us reach our goal by donating through the link below. Your donation will help fund lab supplies and get us to Paris for the iGEM Jamboree! Link: give.rochester.edu. @urochester.bsky.social @urochesteradm.bsky.social

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We got a big shipment in today! Thanks to our sponsor, Corning, for all the lab supplies.

The dichotomy of iGEM: half the team is transforming cells and running PCRs on our first biobricks and the other half is making a poster for our first outreach event.

Here's our project brochure! Read up to learn about our work.

We got our first DNA parts! Big thanks to our sponsor, IDT.

We got our distribution kit this week!

Introducing the 2025 University of Rochester iGEM team: PHAntom! Stay tuned for updates on the team and project throughout the year :D #igem #igem2025 #syntheticbiology