From 2007.igem.org

Opportunities for experienced iGEM participants.

We are looking for people who would like to run or participate in an iGEM Alumni Program.

If you are interested, sign up below. Thank you - Randy

Volunteers to run the program:

• Natalie Yeung, Toronto 2006. --NatalieYeung 23:35, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

• Sreemati Lalgudi Seshasayee, Edinburgh 2006 -- [http://parts2.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/User:Sree] preeti.sree@gmail.com

Volunteers to participate:

Ideas for alumni participation:

• Online community network (Alumni Profiles, Forum, Classifieds -jobs, projects, studies-)
• Organise virtual workshops for current/future iGEM members (skype + wiki):
  • How to set-up an iGEM team (Funding, Academic support, Equipement, Funding) ?
  • If I had to do it again, how would I do it ?
  • Ethical and societal issues in Synthetic Biology.
• Alumni become online mentors for future iGEM teams (track wiki of the team(s), and organise phone conferences with them)
• Alumni could try to recruit more teams in their local region (run some presentations)
• Alumni could form a special judging panel at the Jamboree, and select, with their own set of criterion, the most succesful team (could be done purely online for cost reasons)

FAQ: Where to sign up? Sree from iGEM Edinbrugh 2006 team. Would like to volunteer in running the programme in iGEM 2007. Would be glad if you can contact me at preeti.sree@gmail.com