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Team Snapshot
The Edinburgh team is composed of 8 undergraduate/graduate students and three supervisors from three different schools within the University of Edinburgh (Biology, Engineering and Informatics). They are developing two projects: a biological counter based on cell division, and a self-flavoring yogurt system. Read more here.
Interview questions: Who is your team & how did it form, inspiration for project, low/high point, barriers, successes, funny moments.
News
- Forums & new frontpage design
- We've made a couple of improvements to the iGEM websites. First up: Forums. Use them to solve your transformation problems, for iGEM banter, or just to trash talk the competition. Second: New iGEM 2007 wiki frontpage! You like? You liiike! Amongst much recategorization of content, we've added a couple of new areas, including a team of the week! Currently we're featuring Missouri Western, but your team should be next week!
- TTT workshops have concluded
- Three workshops, three continents. Results from the Teach the Teachers workshops are online, including pictures, video, schedules, and more. read more
- SB 3.0
- SB3.0, the third international conference on Synthetic Biology, directly proceeded the third TTT workshop. There were lots of great talks, including one by Hamilton and two! by 2006 iGEM teams! read more
read all 8 news items here
The iGEM story
iGEM is the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. Hundreds of undergraduates from all over the world annually spend their summer learning the principles of Synthetic Biology and then proving they work by designing and building novel biological machines (using a standardized kit of genetic building blocks), sharing their work with the community as they compete for awards and fame at the Jamboree, held the first weekend of November.
- The students call the shots - not the professors or grad students.
- They build cool stuff! And it works! Check out Eau d'Coli and the coliroid, not to mention the arsenic sensor
- They are boot strapping synthetic biology! iGEM provides a unique way for undergraduates to invest the time, energy, and creativity to develop the field that other more traditional research structures cannot.
Read the rest iGEM story here.
Geneart
Little logo here Live in the Future - GENEART is supporting iGEM 2007 by providing teams with an exclusive DNA synthesis price that's years (link to carlson curves) ahead of the competition - $0.25 a base! Live in the future - Place your order now!
Learn more here
Papers & Press
Visit the Library to read and add to lists of articles about:
- iGEM teams in the news
- the iGEM organization
- Synthetic Biology in the news
- Synthetic Biology literature
- Synthetic Biology protocols
Recently added iGEM:
- Blah de bla - university of yuba
- Bio-Legos? - Virginia Tech cavalier
Synthetic Biology
- Enabling a scientific anti-commons - Nature Letters
Jamboree
Overview - how teams compete (wiki, presentation, poster, parts), where, for how long, in the past and this year. Check the detailed Jamboree Schedule.
Judging & Rules
Overview / description - more details about how teams compete (wiki, presentation, poster, parts), where judges come from, how the process works
Description and requirements of the different Tracks
==== General spirit-of-the-competition rules ==== Your team should:
- Use & create BioBrick Standard biological parts and contribute new parts to the registry
- Actively and openly document the project over the summer online
Rules for the Jamboree
- Parts
- deadline: postmarked to Registry no later than october 19? (2 weeks before Jamboree)
- They must be promoted from the team's sandbox
- They should be well documented (deadline?)
- They must be sent in a registry-compatible format
- iGEM 2007 Team Wiki
- deadline: october 19th, midnight (2 weeks before the Jamboree)
- Requirements: The team's project must be documented on the iGEM 2007 wiki site with detail enough to replicate it independently. Additional presentational information about the team - their story, the rational for the project, failures, successes, future work, etc. - makes for a better site. Remember that these wiki pages will be the main source of inspiration for future teams, and having good documentation on them and in the part description in the registry increases the likelihood of more teams building on your project and your parts.
- Check out the examples of good team wikis page
- You can find info on porting your externally hosted team page to the iGEM 2007 wiki here.
- Jamboree Presentation
- deadline: November 3 (at the Jamboree)
- Requirements: Each team is given 20 minutes to present their work followed by a 5 minute Q/A period, with a 5 minute setup period. There are no rules besides those governing the safety of the audience about the manner in which the team uses the 20 minutes to present their project, although in the past essentially all presentations have been based on powerpoint or keynote slides.
- Be prepared to provide a PDF of your presentation when you talk for archival purposes, and be prepared to be recorded.
- Jamboree Poster
- deadline: November 3 (at the Jamboree)
- Requirements: the team must present a poster describing their project at the Jamboree.
- The poster must not exceed Dimensions!
- Each team should be prepared to submit a PDF of their poster for archival purposes.
Judging Committee
- Overview
- How to Become a Judge
- Bio + Pics of Judges
Travel Logistics
- Jamboree fee
- How to get to the Jamboree
- Where to stay
- How to get a VISA
- grants & funding
