Nambi grew out of a passion for innovation and a commitment to sustainability. Our story began in 2022, when a group of UBC students founded the first-ever iGEM team at UBC Okanagan.
Our first project, Life Bulb, aimed to engineer cyanobacteria to produce bioluminescence. The project won a Gold Medal at the 2022 iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris and got some media attention.
Inspired by that, we explored turning Life Bulb into a longer-term project called Nambi. The name pays homage to the Neonothopanus nambi fungus, one of the most influential organisms in the field of auto-bioluminescence.
Several of us moved on to Calgary and kept working on the idea that biotechnology could be a source of inspiration and beauty as well as a tool for innovation.
Nambi is on hiatus for now. Maybe someday we'll bring it back as a place to share the cool stuff about bioluminescence.