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Giant Jamboree registration: OPEN!
Registration for the Giant Jamboree is now open!
Regular registration ends July 31.
Register here.
Team Meetups
Are you hosting a team meetup? We want to know! Email the details to iGEM HQ and we'll add you to the Meetups page!
Giant Jamboree
Mark your calendars for September 24 to September 28, 2015 in Boston. General attendance is $695 per attendee (decreased!). Visit the Giant Jamboree page for more information.
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Visa Application Day
If you haven't already, be sure to apply for your travel visa today! Visa applications can and do often take longer than expected to process. You can get a customized invitation letter to use when applying for your travel visa through the online visa invitation letter system. Instructions are available on the Visa help page.
Giant Jamboree attendees should apply for B-1 travel visas, which allows the visa holder to present at conferences.
Giant Jamboree registration
Registration for the Giant Jamboree is now open! The attendance fee for each iGEM team member will be $695 (reduced from last year!) during regular registration, which is open until July 31 at 11:59PM EDT.
See the Attendance fee page for the registration link and additional details.
Contribute your Human Practices story!
Did you participate in iGEM in the past? Do you have a great story about your Human Practices and how it enriched your project? We are collecting stories for the Practices Hub! Email hq (at) igem (dot) org to add yours!
Be sure to register for the MATLAB webinar - May 27
The MATLAB webinar on May 27 will provide iGEM teams with an introduction to modeling, simulation, and analysis with MATLAB and SimBiology, with examples from synthetic biology literature. The webinar will be from 9:00AM to 10:00AM EST.
To register for the webinar, or request the MathWorks complimentary software kit for your team, see the MathWorks sponsor page!
Safety Office Hours tomorrow
Join us for the first set of Safety Office Hours on Skype, at 12:00 noon and 9:00pm EDT! Ask questions, discuss safe and responsible engineering, chat with other iGEMers from around the world! Instructions here.
280 Teams!
280 teams have officially registered for iGEM 2015!
You can see the complete list here and the world map here.
Announcing iGEM's new Cloning Troubleshooting Hub!
Our new iGEM Science and Technology Fellow, Traci, has created a Cloning Help page! This is a new page for the 2015 season and we hope you take advantage of it.
Do you have a cloning related question you want to ask iGEM HQ? Are you struggling with a technique used in your cloning process? Are you looking for some general tips and tricks for various wet lab techniques? Then come on over to the new Cloning Help page, check out our Transformation tips and Restriction Digest and Ligation tips, and submit your questions throughout the competition!
Judging Application Deadline: June 1st
Do you want to judge at the iGEM Giant Jamboree? Apply now! The deadline is June 1st. Please complete our Judging application form to be in our database.
The first group of judges will be announced on July 1st. A second round will be announced at a later date based on the number of teams attending the Jamboree.
Community Highlights
Send us your team videos, games and items you would like to share with the iGEM community
Team Seeker and BioBrick Seeker
The 2015 Aalto-Helsinki team has updated the Team Seeker and BioBrick Seeker tools developed by their 2014 team! More information here.
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