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iGEM 
iGEM competition
iGEM competition
The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) is the premiere undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. Student teams are given a kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working at their own schools over the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. This project design and competition format is an exceptionally motivating and effective teaching method.
iGEM began in January of 2003 with a month-long course during MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP). The students designed biological systems to make cells blink. This design course grew to a summer competition with 5 teams in 2004, 13 teams in 2005 - the first year that the competition grew internationally, 32 teams in 2006, 54 teams in 2007, and 84 teams from twenty-one countries in 2008. Projects have ranged from banana and wintergreen smelling bacteria, to an arsenic biosensor, to Bactoblood, and buoyant bacteria.
iGEM news
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iGEM2010 sponsors We would like to thank everyone who is helping us out with iGEM 2010. Sponsors at the University of Cambridge: The School of Biological Sciences, Department of Genetics, Department of Plant Sciences, Department...
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SynBio2010 course SynBio course Timetable for 2010 Work Groups for SynBio2010 tasks & student photos: Synthetic Biology website in Cambridge (www.synbio.org.uk) Course photographs Course Assessment BioBrick...
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iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience iGEM: the student synthetic biology experience by Mun-Keat Looi, Wellcome Trust blog, http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/igem-the-student-synthetic-biology-experience/ European teams, including Imperial and...
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'Building block' biology The new field of synthetic biology aims to make biology controllable, predictable and designable. Mun-Keat Looi asks if you can really engineer a biological organism and hears how a unique competition for undergraduates is helping the field gather...
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Wellcome Trust awards for iGEM teams in the UK The Wellcome Trust today announces the recipients of its inaugural stipends aimed at supporting UK entries to iGEM - the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition. iGEM is an annual competition that encourages teams of undergraduate...
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iGEM2009 sponsors The students and organisers would like to express our thanks to the following companies for help through sponsorship, provision of equipment loans and consumables for the University of Cambridge iGEM2009 team: We would especially like to acknowledge...
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iGEM2009 wrap-up Grand Prize, Winner of the BioBrick Trophy: Cambridge 1st Runner Up: Heidelberg 2nd Runner Up: Valencia Finalists: Cambridge Freiburg bioware Groningen Heidelberg Imperial College London...
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IGEM2009 grows iGEM 2009: Synthetic Biology Competition Bigger than Ever this Halloween September 24th, 2009 by Aaron Saenz , SIngularity Hub Like some Frankenstein monster composed...
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