From 2011.igem.org
The UW-Madison iGEM team also participated in the Summer Research Opportunities poster session,
which allowed students in the summer research programs at UW-Madison to share their projects.
The program we participated had students who did research in Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Chemical
and Biological engineering and Chemistry of Materials for Renewable Energy. At the poster session,
we shared what he had done so far and how we plan to continue our project for the regional and
international iGEM Jamborees.
The UW-Madison iGEM team also participated in the summer camp outreach sessions where we
volunteered at an after-chemistry camp learning sessions where middle school students chose to stay
for an hour after camp to learn more about topics in science. At these sessions, we told students
about iGEM and the different ways we use synthetic biology to explore biology and hopefully develop
solutions to some of our world’s questions. For instance, we explained our current project on biofuels
and how we used certain genes from different bacteria to achieve the synthetic constructs to aid in
biofuel exploration.
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