iGEM 2007 Jamboree taking place on 3-5 November at MIT
29 October 2007 - 8 November 2007
Austria
This year's Jamboree will be the best ever. 57 student teams from universities from all over the world have prepared their fantastic projects during this summer and will present them at competition in the first weekend of November at MIT. This year we will be able to see among others the use of bacteria as blood substitute, formation of multicellular organisms from bacteria, new strategy to prevent HIV infection, treatment of cancer, several project on the use of bacteria to produce alternative sources of energy, fruit fly zombies and much more.
This year there are more than ever European teams, which have been supported by the EU project SynBiocomm. Last year the european teams did extremely well, with Slovenian team winning the Grand Prize, Imperial college as the first runner up and every European team achieving at least one award in the special categories.
iGEM addresses the principal question of Synthetic Biology Research in Eingneering Biological Sytems : Can simple biological systems be built from standard, interchangeable parts and operated in living cells? Or isbiology simply too complicated to be engineered in this way? The only way to answer this is actually to try to engineer biological devices. The iGEM competition facilitates this by providing a library of standardized parts (we call these parts BioBricks) to students, and asking them to design and build genetic machines with them. Information about BioBricks, and a toolkit to make and manipulate them, is provided by the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, or simply, the Registry. This is a core resource for the iGEM program, and one that has been evolving rapidly to meet the needs of the program. Beyond trying to answer the question above, our broader goals include: (1) To enable the systematic engineering of biology (2) To promote the open and transparent development of tools for engineering biology And (3) to help construct a modern biobased industry by means of Synthetic Biology.
This year there are more than ever European teams, which have been supported by the EU project SynBiocomm. Last year the european teams did extremely well, with Slovenian team winning the Grand Prize, Imperial college as the first runner up and every European team achieving at least one award in the special categories.
iGEM addresses the principal question of Synthetic Biology Research in Eingneering Biological Sytems : Can simple biological systems be built from standard, interchangeable parts and operated in living cells? Or isbiology simply too complicated to be engineered in this way? The only way to answer this is actually to try to engineer biological devices. The iGEM competition facilitates this by providing a library of standardized parts (we call these parts BioBricks) to students, and asking them to design and build genetic machines with them. Information about BioBricks, and a toolkit to make and manipulate them, is provided by the Registry of Standard Biological Parts, or simply, the Registry. This is a core resource for the iGEM program, and one that has been evolving rapidly to meet the needs of the program. Beyond trying to answer the question above, our broader goals include: (1) To enable the systematic engineering of biology (2) To promote the open and transparent development of tools for engineering biology And (3) to help construct a modern biobased industry by means of Synthetic Biology.