Yes, mission accomplished! Stefanie, Benjamien, Hanne and Jonas did a great job defending the team’s and the K.U.Leuven’s colours in front of a full MIT D463 auditorium at iGEM 2008. The jury however seemed a little bit overwhelmed by Dr. Coli’s assets. Questions on the GFP and input/output characterization were professionally answered by Nathalie, but let’s hope the lack of simulation questions does not mean iGEM did not see our modeling qualities! Maybe the camera team that recorded our presentation and left right after it is a good sign as they were only spotted before at the impressive BactoKidney project (or did you send them, Bart? . So, fingers crossed, since tonight at 8.30 the 6 iGEM 2008 finalists are announced! To be continued…