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Since 2005

History

Twenty-one years, 632 member-years, and 485 people. This is the full record, including the years that went badly and the ones where the evidence has not survived.

01Growth

Team size, year by year

Three people in 2008, when the team withdrew, to sixty-seven in 2024, the year it first placed in the Top 10. Select a bar to open that year.

2005 — 13 members, No result recorded 13 2006 — 43 members, No result recorded 43 2007 — 32 members, Silver Medal 32 2008 — 3 members, Did not compete 3 2009 — 12 members, Bronze Medal 12 2010 — 12 members, No result recorded 12 2011 — 12 members, No result recorded 12 2012 — 10 members, No result recorded 10 2013 — 16 members, Gold Medal 16 2014 — 25 members, Bronze Medal 25 2015 — 40 members, Silver Medal 40 2016 — 51 members, Bronze Medal 51 2017 — 43 members, Bronze Medal 43 2018 — 29 members, Silver Medal 29 2019 — 27 members, Gold Medal 272020 — iGEM ran a remote competition in 2020. Toronto did not enter. 2021 — 15 members, No result recorded 15 2022 — 27 members, Gold Medal 27 2023 — 37 members, Gold Medal 37 2024 — 67 members, Gold Medal 67 2025 — 52 members, Gold Medal 52 2026 — 66 members, Season in progress 66'05'06'07'08'09'10'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
GoldSilverBronzeNo medal recordedNo team that year

02The record

Every year

Newest first. Select a year for the project, the full award list, and the photographs that survive.

2026PetaBite — PETase discovery from the Logan petabase indexBioremediation · 66 members · PetaBiteSeason in progress2025Mystiphage: Generating phage therapies at the speed of AITherapeutics · 52 membersGold Medal2024Plasmid.AIFoundational Advance · 67 membersGold Medal2023Biological methane capture at landfill sitesClimate Crisis · 37 members · MethanivoreGold Medal2022Oak wilt fungal DNA detection by LAMPConservation · 27 membersGold Medal2021Computational enzyme design for PET-degrading enzymesSoftware · 15 membersNo result recorded
2020iGEM ran a remote competition in 2020. Toronto did not enter.
2019Accelerating industrial plastic degradation with PETaseManufacturing · 27 membersGold Medal2018Flotation, Separation, Bio-remediation (E. coli gas vesicle proteins)New Application · 29 membersSilver Medal2017LacILOV light-activated gene expressionFoundational Advance · 43 membersBronze Medal2016GolS paper-based colorimetric gold biosensorNew Application · 51 membersBronze Medal2015ConsortiaFluxSoftware · 40 membersSilver Medal2014Biocontainment: a novel approachEnvironment · 25 membersBronze Medal2013A Systems Biology Approach to Biofilm EngineeringFoundational Advance · 16 membersGold Medal2012Arabidopsis engineering (two-part project)Food & Energy · 10 membersNo result recorded2011Magnetite biomineralization in E. coliNew Application · 12 membersNo result recorded2010Oil sands tailings bioremediation via catechol metabolic channelingEnvironment · 12 membersNo result recorded2009The EncapsulatorNew Application · 12 membersBronze Medal2008Registered, then withdrewNo track recorded · 3 members · BlueGenesDid not compete2007Bacterial Neural NetworkInformation Processing · 32 members · BlueGenesSilver Medal2006Cell-See-Us ThermometerNo track recorded · 43 members · Blue WaterNo result recorded2005Cell-See-Us ThermometerNo track recorded · 13 members · Blue WaterNo result recorded

03Provenance

About this record

If you are an iGEM Toronto alumni and/or have more pictures from previous years, please email igem@g.skule.ca— we would love to recover them.