Team:UMaryland/about
August 19th: New menu! Still in progress though.
August 12th: Guys please don't mess with the homepage it's hard to fix
August 4th: Ayy now we're getting stuff done
July 22th: First website team meeting yay
July 21th: Welcome Sarah to the team
July 12th: Project: 'Make sexy landing page" commenced
July 10th: Senpai nooo what will we do without you
June 30th: Project: "Cleanup wiki code" commenced
June 28th: Miraculin done
June 21st: JK Lutein you are here to stay
June 16th: Menu links now work!
June 16th: New sexy logo and banner :D
June 15th: RIP Lutein project you will be missed
June 7th: UMDiGEM.com purchased
-REWRITE your bio! It should be ~500 characters, about the length of Iowis's and Best Kohai's.
-SEE Best Kohai for specific assignments
-Write up experimental details, protocol, etc. for any of our 3 experiments
-Write up our human practices stuff
-Select pictures from our drive to be uploaded to the wiki
This website is currently under heavy development, so please excuse the scarcity of content!
The International Genetically Engineered Machine is a student-led synthetic biology competition with more than 280 participating collegiate teams worldwide. Each September, teams from Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Americas gather in Boston to share their research findings. iGEM is also much more than a competition. The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to education and competition, advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of open community and collaboration. The community has a long history of involving students and the public in the development of the new field of synthetic biology.
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"If you ask five different experts in the field what synthetic biology is, you'll get 7 different definitions."
Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary branch of biology, combining disciplines such as biotechnology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology, systems biology, biophysics, computer engineering, and is in many ways related to genetic engineering.
The University of Maryland is the state's flagship and land-grant institution with 37,500 students in 12 schools and colleges, 9,000 faculty and staff, and a $1.9B annual operating budget, including $500M in external research funding. It is a member of the Association of American Universities.
The University of Maryland chapter of iGEM, UMaryland iGEM, was founded in 2014. It showed great promise by winning a gold medal at its inaugural international convention, a great feat for a rookie team. Riding on this momentum, UMaryland iGEM has since doubled in membership and has taken on multiple research projects: designing a PCR machine that costs less than $50 to build, making a drug that treats macular degeneration, creating an antibiotic-free alternative to lab work, and educating the community about synthetic biology. More information about our work can be found at UMDiGEM.com
Contact our community/outreach director, Robert Hand.
rhand@terpmail.umd.edu
In order to sustain our efforts both inside and outside the lab, we are asking for your help. By donating to UMaryland iGEM, you are not only helping us solve these issues, but also giving the next generation of leaders, scientists, and engineers the opportunity to get hands-on experience with biotechnology, genetic engineering, teamwork and more. Although each day we work with microscopic processes and structures, the potential outcome of our research would make huge advances in the world of medicine and biotechnology. With your support, we will be one step closer to making those advances.
Donations of any amount are welcome and will be recognized appropriately!