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Giant Jamboree

Want to know more about the Giant Jamboree? See the Giant Jamboree page.

Upcoming Deadlines

• July 15
Project description
• July 31
Giant Jamboree registration closes for teams
• August 7
Track selection
• August 7
Title and abstracts due
• August 26
Sheraton Booking deadline
• August 28
Final Safety Form
• August 28
InterLab Measurement study data: worksheet and protocol forms

More: Calendar of Events

Meet iGEM at...

iGEM Headquarters may be coming to an event near you! Come visit us at:

• August 19-21:
IWBDA 2015
• July 18-21:
Brazil team Meetup and Chile team Meetup

In this Newsletter...

• Giant Jamboree registration
• New Parts in the Registry
• Tell Your Story		   • Keywords
• Hotel Information
• New Technology Committee
• iGEM by the numbers
• Sponsors and Special Offers

Giant Jamboree Registration Reminder

Team registration for the Giant Jamboree ends on July 31 at 11:59PM EDT. Be sure to register your team by the deadline to reserve a presentation time slot and poster location for your team! The attendance fee is $695 per team member with payment due by July 31, and will increase to $795 beginning August 1.

For more information, see the attendance fee page.

Click the button above or go to the www.regonline.com/iGEM2015GiantJamboree.

Team registration deadline: July 31
Cost: $695 for iGEM team members (Decreased from 2014!)

Special Announcement: New Parts in the Registry!

  In partnership with iGEM, Gen9 has synthesized over 300 parts for the Registry. This new addition to the Registry includes a wide array of well-documented and highly used parts that we hope will be useful for the iGEM community. The parts have been incorporated into the Registry’s Repository and are now available for request!

Communicate your project!

Tell Your Story page

We have created a new page to help teams understand the importance of scientific communication in terms of explaining their work to a larger audience and documentation as it pertains to the iGEM competition for medals and special prizes for the 2015 season. Telling your story in a clear and concise way is challenging, but well worth the effort in the end. 

Check out the Telling Your Story page for tips, advice, and examples!

  

Keywords

This year, we’re collecting keywords from teams to capture information on their projects so that the iGEM community can easily see what teams have worked on. 2015 teams can submit up to 5 keywords about their project to iGEM HQ by emailing them to keywords (at) igem (dot) org.


See the Keywords page for recommendations and more information about this new!

Judging: How will your project be evaluated?

It's never too early to start thinking about it! See the handbook, Rubric Categories and see your team's Judging form to learn how the judges see your project!

Hotel information

Looking for accommodations during the Giant Jamboree? We have a great room block at the Sheraton Boston hotel, which is directly connected to the Hynes Convention Center! The rates per room per night are:


$259 – single/double
$279 – triple
$299 – quad


The booking deadline is August 26. For detailed information about the Sheraton Boston offer, see the accommodations page.

  

Technology Committee

We are looking to form a new iGEM Technology Committee comprised of researchers from around the world with a focus on bringing the best technology to the iGEM competition and community.

If you're excited about iGEM, have expertise in one (or more) areas of technology as it relates to synthetic biology, and want to get involved, then click here for more information or go to: http://2015.igem.org/Technology_Committee

iGEM by the numbers

Curious to know how other teams are doing? We have created a page with statistics an numbers.


Teams Registered for Competition Teams Registered
for Jamboree		 Part Submissions InterLab Measurement Study
280 47 1 82

You can find more on the iGEM by the numbers page!

Partner Sponsors and Special Offers

Jamboree sponsors

In order to be PUBLISHED in the Giant Jamboree Program Book, your sponsorship must be processed by August 7. Please contact us before then if you are interested in sponsoring the Giant Jamboree. You may sponsor at any time up to the Jamboree but after August 7, your sponsorship will not be featured in the Giant Jamboree Program Book.

For additional information on Jamboree sponsorship, see the complete Sponsorship page.

iGEM is proud to announce our Partner Sponsors and Special Offers for iGEM 2015. These offers are designed specifically for our iGEM teams. Please see our Partner Special Offers page for details and check back often for updates and new offers.

Synberc: Synthetic Dance-ology

In this Giant Jamboree workshop, a professional dancer and a scientist will work with iGEM teams to translate their projects into a dance. We will help team members break down their project into parts, explore those parts through movement, and then lead them through the remixing and stringing together of those movements to form an accessible dance routine that illustrates the completed iGEM project.  Participants will explore synthetic biology in a fun way that reinforces learning, sparks questions and promotes interaction!

Everyone is welcome to the workshop, but please email Shaila Kotadia at  skotadia (at) berkeley (dot) edu if interested in having your project danced at the 2015 Jamboree!  Learn more at dance.synberc.org

MathWorks 

Would your team like technical support from a MathWorks Engineer?  If you are interested in support, contact Fulden Buyukozturk via e-mail at Fulden.Buyukozturk (at) mathworks (dot) com.You can also learn more about MATLB and Simulink support for iGEM here.

IDT

Did you miss the IDT webinar on June 24, 2015 titled, "iGEM Progress Using High Quality Gene Fragments"? Watch at www.idtdna.com/igem.