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July Newsletter
In this issue...
- Register to attend the Giant Jamboree!
- Highlight on teams: Find a collaboration
- iGEM Director delivering IWBDA Keynote, and other events in July
- Measurement validation for all teams from the Measurement Committee
- Exclusive offers from iGEM's partners
- Upcoming dates and team meetups
Giant Jamboree Registration Now Open
Register now to attend the Giant Jamboree!! Join us at the Hynes Convention Center from October 31-November 4 and experience iGEM in action.
Regular registration will end on August 31 at 11:59PM EDT. Teams, please note: at least one team member must be registered by this date in order to ensure you have a presentation session at the Giant Jamboree.
Direct Link: https://2019.igem.org/Giant_Jamboree/Register
Looking for accommodation for your stay in Boston? iGEM has arranged room blocks at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the Midtown Hotel. Learn more: https://2019.igem.org/Giant_Jamboree/Accommodations
Interested in being a judge at the Giant Jamboree? Apply now!
Beyond the Competition: Events and Speaking Engagements in July
July 7-10, NATO workshop on Biosecurity
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Piers Millett, iGEM Director of Safety and Security, and Sam Weiss Evans, executive member of the iGEM Human Practices Committee, will participate in the Scientific Organizing Committee for a NATO sponsored workshop on "Security and Resilience for Emerging Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology Threats". Learn more about the NATO workshop on Biosecurity
July 9-12, IWBDA - International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation
Location: Cambridge, England
Traci Haddock-Angelli, iGEM Director of the Competition, will deliver the the keynote address on "Setting Standards in Synthetic Biology" at the 11th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation held in Cambridge, England. Learn more about IWBDA 2019
July 11-13, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Location: University of Cambridge, England
Piers Millett and Sam Weiss Evans will run a workshop on "Novel practices in biosecurity governance" hosted by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. They will provide input on iGEM's safety and security program, and our plans to strengthen our governance framework.
July 18, GRC (Gordon Research Conference) Synthetic Biology conference
Location: New Hampshire, USA
Anne Meyer, Chair of the iGEM Diversity and Inclusion Committee, will give a talk that will highlight the work of her 2015 TU Delft iGEM team at "Creating Designer Biofilms”. Learn more about the GRC 2019
See what else we're up to #BeyondTheCompetition:
Direct Link: https://igem.org/Beyond_the_Competition
The iGEM Blog
The iGEM blog is back! In our first post, our lead writer Linda Kahl explored the different ways people define iGEM in her multi-part series “What is iGEM?”. See what we're blogging about!
Direct Link: https://blog.igem.org/blog/2019/6/25/what-is-igem
From the Measurement Committee
The iGEM Measurement Committee is now offering measurement validation to all teams!
We are offering measurement validation for three protocols at this time:
- iGEM 2019 Plate Reader Fluorescence Calibration
- iGEM 2019 Plate Reader Abs600 (OD) Calibration
- iGEM 2019 Flow Cytometry Fluorescence Calibration
If you make measurements using any of these three protocols, you can submit the resulting Excel calculation sheet to the Measurement Committee for validation. We will use the values in the sheet to generate a "diagnostic report" for you, either validating that your protocol appears to have worked as expected or else indicating potential problems that you may need to address.
We strongly encourage any team who can use one of these protocols in their project to do so. Calibration and validation of measurements can detect problems in protocols or instruments making troubleshooting easier, and importantly, it allows for the sharing of data and increases the future impact of your project!
Upcoming Team Meetups
- July 5-7: German iGEM Meetup
- July 7: iGEM Meetup - Beijing District
- July 12-14: Greek iGEM Meetup
- July 13: Midwest Meetup
- July 19-21: iGEM ChongQing Meetup
- July 20-21: All India iGEM Meetup
- July 25: Mid-Atlantic iGEM Meetup
- July 25-27: InParis European Meetup
Email HQ to get your team meetup listed on the meetups page!
Find a Collaboration
- International Stratospheric and Space Legislation - Team Sao Carlos-Brazil
- iGEMxSDGs challenge - Teams Costa Rica, Tuebingen, and TAS Taipei
- Promoters Needed for Bioelectric Sensor - Team Tufts
- Creating a Wiki Wealth of Knowledge - Team US AFRL CarrollHS
- Request to optimize team's device - Team CMUQ
- Collaborative Comic - Team Wroclaw
- Who Wore it Best? - Team Stony Brook
- Sorting CereMonera - Team IISc-Bangalore
- How to iGEM - a video collaboration project - Team TU Dresden
- The Voice iGEM Contest - Wageningen UR
Email HQ to get your collaboration request listed on the collaborations page!
With Thanks to iGEM's Partners for 2019
Twist Bioscience is offering every iGEM 2019 team complimentary 10 kb of Gene Fragments. Synthesis will be performed in monthly batches; Submit requests by July 10 to be included in the next round.
Join Promega for an exclusive iGEM Ask the Experts Live Q&A Webinar Series where Promega's experts will answer your questions about ligation, transfection and transformation. Next webinar: July 23
Don't forget...
- IDT giving FREE 20kb of custom DNA as gBlocks® Gene Fragments OR Alt-R® CRISPR Genome Editing products to ALL teams
- GenScript offering 20% off synthesis and cloning services to all teams
- Benchling giving complimentary Benchling accounts, with Benchling Sync, and 10 GB of extra space
- MathWorks giving complimentary MATLAB software (includes 13 products) and technical support to all teams
- Opentrons offering $2000 off a team's first OT-2 Robot
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