Washington University in St. Louis genetic engineering panel

Hey iGEM teams!

Here at Wash U we’re planning a panel on genetic engineering to be held in the fall for the Wash U community. We’re hoping to address some gray areas of synthetic biology and genetic engineering in agriculture, from safety and regulation to ethics and implications. We’re still finalizing our panelists, but hope to have experts from Monsanto and the Danforth Plant Science Center. We’re also in touch with some Wash U professors from the biology, philosophy, and anthropology departments.

We plan to start off the discussion with our own questions before opening it up to the audience. We’ve come up with a list of questions, but would love to get the input of some other iGEM teams. If you have questions you think would start interesting discussion at the panel, we’d love to hear them! Email us at washu.igem(at)gmail.com.

Best, Wash U iGEM

iGEM Team PenPal by Team William and Mary

Greetings from William & Mary iGEM!

Do you have questions about your project that no one on your team can answer? Are you looking for a way to connect with other teams working on similar projects? Have you considered an iGEM Team PenPal?

Now that we are less than a week away from the deadline for teams to post their project descriptions on their team Wikis, we thought that teams with similar projects should have an easy way to get in touch with one another. Thus, the William & Mary iGEM team invites you to join our brand new iGEM PenPal program! All you have to do is fill out a quick form with a few sentences about your team, your project and your collaboration interests. Then we'll personally match you to another team working on a similar project or interested in a complimentary collaboration. Hopefully, our iGEM PenPal program can help facilitate collaboration between teams, improve the quality of the projects at the Jamboree, and foster some new friendships!

You can sign up for an iGEM PenPal below (a Google form), or fill out the PDF Application and email it to igem@wm.edu. The sooner you email us, the sooner you'll get your PenPal!

Synberc Dance-ology

Synthetic Dance-ology is an interactive performance activity that uses dance to engage public audiences about synthetic biology. In this Giant Jamboree workshop, a professional dancer and a scientist will teach iGEM teams how their iGEM projects and other research activities can be translated into movement to illustrate synthetic biology concepts and encourage dialog with diverse audiences. The workshop leaders will work with iGEM teams to break down their projects into parts that can be translated into dance movements. We will then illustrate how those parts and their movements are remixed and strung together to build a complete dance routine that translates an iGEM project. Through this method participants explore synthetic biology in a unique and fun way that reinforces learning, sparks questioning, and promotes interaction with each other in an informal setting.

Everyone is welcome to the workshop, but please email Shaila Kotadia at skotadia(at)berkeley(dot)edu if interested in having your project danced at the 2015 Jamboree! Learn more at dance.synberc.org.

German team meetup

Are you excited about your iGEM project and curious about the other German teams? Do you want to meet new people who are as enthusiastic about iGEM as you are? Do you need a break from all your exhausting lab work? Team Marburg looks forward to hosting all the German teams at their meetup from July 31 to August 2 at the Marburg an der Lahnaue campgrounds!

Contact Team Marburg at igemteam(at)synmikro.uni-marburg.de by June 25 if your team is joining so Marburg can make further arrangements! Additional information is available here: Meetup invitation.

iGEM Matchmaker by NTNU Trondheim

Hello iGEM teams!

Are you looking for another team to work with? Use the iGEM Matchmaker to find other teams interested in collaborating or helping you out with your project!

Thanks, Team NTNU Trondheim Follow us on Twitter: @NTNUigem Contact us on ntnu.igem (at) gmail.com

Team Seeker and BioBrick Seeker by Aalto Helsinki

Are you curious about past iGEM projects? Are you looking for inspiration? Or have a project in mind, but want to see what's been done before?

You can easily search through the team abstracts from 2008-2014 using the Team Seeker tool created by the 2014 Aalto Helsinki team and updated by the 2015 Aalto Helsinki team with the help of the 2015 Waterloo team.

Looking for a particular BioBrick in the current 2015 Distribution Kit?

You can easily find the sequencing status, plate location, part type, and plasmid backbone using the BioBrick Seeker tool that was created by the 2014 Aalto Helsinki team and updated by the 2015 Aalto Helsinki team.

Vote for Team UNA Honduras

You can help Team UNA Honduras to get more funding by voting for them!
Vote here!

What is iGEM video? by IONIS Paris

Team iGEM IONIS Paris made a video explaining what is iGEM!

Tec-Monterrey Meetup

Team iGEM Tec-Monterrey will be hosting a Mexican team meetup from April 30 to May 3 in Monterrey, Nuevo León. From Thursday to Sunday, teams will get to learn about each other’s projects, receive feedback from invited experts on the biotech field, and finally discuss the current state of synthetic biology in Latin-America and the many ways open for improvement.

ATOMS-Turkiye iGEM Team

Hello fellow iGEMers!

This year, we, ATOMS-Turkiye iGEM team, are going to attend the 6th International Medical Student Congress (IMSC) organized by our university Scientific Research Committee. The congress consists of presentations and discussions of various scientific and medical researches to feed the medical student attendants and both national and international students and academicians coming from all over the world with a scientific program that includes speeches from well known names carefully followed in the scientific world and a social program which will relax us throughout our time in Asya Thermal Hotel, located in Kizilcahamam, Ankara.

Last year, our previous team members and Paris Bettencourt 2013 team had performed a mutual workshop called "SynBio 4 All" explaining the basics of SynBio and iGEM competition to the young medical students and scientists.

This year, our team will also give a speech about synthetic biology, iGEM and last year's project. A synthetic biology and life in the lab workshop will also be performed.

We would like to invite all iGEMers and alumni to this scientific feast and hope to meet-up and discuss the issues of synthetic biology, attendance in iGEM and more with fellow iGEM teams.

You may visit congress web site: http://congress.tobat.org/ or watch this summary video of past congresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDYZlvSfhs&feature=youtu.be

Hope to see you there
ATOMS-Turkiye iGEM Team