Community

The iGEM community page lets you see what some of your fellow iGEM Teams are up to. If your want to add something to this list, send us an email to hq (at) igem . org and we'll add it.

Team UNAM-Genomics Mexico made a trailer to show one of the ideas of their Human Practice project!

Check out the video that Team UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil created to explain genetic engineering and synthetic biology!

Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures created a video of highlights from their recent summit in Banff, where they discussed challenges in bringing new technologies to the market!

Team Bielefeld-Germany created a video called The Bisphenol A-Team to introduce members of their team!

Check out Team TU Munich's claymation video introducing synthetic biology and their project for this year's competition!

Team Lyon-INSA-ENS created a video called Cobalt Busters to introduce their team members, project, and the main principles behind the iGEM competition!

Check out Team UNITS_Trieste's video Synbiome about their project on symbiotic bacteria and eukaryotic cells!

Team Lyon-INSA-ENS created a video called Cobalt buster to present their project on adherent bacteria which capture cobalt!

Team UANL Mty-Mexico has created a video called iGEM Factory that shows their team hard at work in the lab!

Team UANL Mty-Mexico has created a blog with articles in both English and Spanish about iGEM, synthetic biology, and biotechnology! They're encouraging members of the iGEM community to participate and create their own versions of Bio! for their country, so even more people can learn about synthetic biology. Check them out here!

During the summer iGEM Teams have been meeting up, giving talks and also hosting events. Check out what they've been up to! If you've done something similar or plan to, be sure to add it to the Meetups and Events page

• 2011 Preparation of Minds: Dutch Teams and Young Politicians @TU Delft
• 2011 Turkish Teams Meetup
• 2011 K.U. Leuven and ULB Brussels - Ethics of Synthetic Biology
• 2011 K.U. Leuven Summer Workshop
• IGEM 2011 China Meetup

TU Munich has put together a children's book that introduces the world of synthetic biology to kids, and a comic that explains their project and the basic principles of cloning. Check them out! (both are in .pdf format)

Three alumni from SDU-Denmark 2010 and 2009 have created a blog to spotlight and comment on projects from this year's competition. In the future they will also conduct interviews with some of the teams. Check them out here!

"What is the real impact of iGEM on its participants and on the field of synthetic biology as a whole? This short questionnaire has been developed by this year's Cambridge iGEM team in order to answer this very question. If you first participated in iGEM as a student team member, then we would really appreciate it if you could take a moment to complete this questionnaire and contribute to our research...The survey should only take you about 7-8 minutes to complete." - Team Cambridge

"The Lazy Scientist is a translation tool aimed to assist synthetic biologists. The app has a number of functions including DNA to amino acid translation, back translation, reverse, complement and reverse complement. The app also contains a genetic codon lookup table allowing all corresponding codons for an amino acid to be looked up. The app is available for free in both the iPhone App Store and the Android Market." - Team Dundee

Team NYMU-Taipei has created a facebook group for iGEM Teams working with magnetic bacteria. They're inviting teams to join, collaborate and discuss research and applications of magnetic bacteria.

During the summer iGEM Teams have been meeting up, giving talks and also hosting events. Check out what they've been up to! If you've done something similar or plan to, be sure to add it to the Meetups and Events page

• 2011 Preparation of Minds: Dutch Teams and Young Politicians meet on Sept. 1,
• 2011 iGEM meetup/session at the 6th CeBiTec Symposium, Bielefeld
• 2011 Alberta Workshops
• 2011 Micro-Congress Mexico
• 2011 UK meetup
• 2011 KAIST summer camp

Team Queens Canada has a video up describing their project, find out about their project engineering C. elegans for bioremediation.

Team Colombia has a video up describing their project, find out about their project on using bacteria mediated biocontrol for phytopathogens.

Team Freiburg has a video up describing their project, find out about their Lab in a Cell project.

Team Sevilla has created a facebook group for iGEM teams whose projects are related to logical behavior or logic circuits. Join, share your progress, and help each other out!

Team Fatih_Turkey has designed a Monopoly-like Synthetic Biology board game called "Canvas Town" to educate people about BioBricks, organisms, techniques and devices used in a synthetic biology lab. They are also planning on sending sets out to the Regional Jamborees to create a tournament, with finalists playing at the World Jamboree. Check their wiki out for updates, pictures and rules.

Team UANL_Mty-Mexico has created a facebook group for iGEM Teams working on light based projects. They're inviting all iGEM "light teams" to join, communicate and collaborate and improve upon light induction systems.

Team Edinburgh has put together a project summary page for all iGEM team projects. Check out their Wiki Watch page to see what fellow iGEMers are working on.

Team Dundee has created a DNA app that can be found on their wiki. They've also turned it into an Android app

Team KULeuven has kindly put together a social media overview page on their wiki. Keep yourself updated on how teams are progressing through: Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr. If you'd like to add yourself to their list, contact them through twitter (@KULeuven_iGEM) or facebook (KULeuven_iGEM).

Are you an iGEM team, lab, or sponsor? If you have a video that you would like to share with the community send us an email to hq (at) igem . org. We'll add it to our community videos page.

• Tell us who you would like the video to be attributed to: your iGEM team, your actors, etc.
• All videos should have a Creative Commons Attribution license at the very least.
• Provide a description and any resources that would go well with your video
• We prefer that videos be uploaded to Vimeo or Youtube as quality tends to be good and embedding is easy.