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Team Calgary - iGEM Style video
November 16, 2012
Team Calgary - iGEM Style video

Team Calgary made this video to show "the life of a iGEM Style undergraduate scientist." Check it out!

Team UC Chile - iGEM-Completo video
November 7, 2012
Team UC Chile - iGEM-Completo video

Check out the video from Team UC Chile! It is [a] "fresh perspective: a first timer team's point of view of SynBio and iGEM by UC Chile."

Team Queens Canada - ChimeriQ x SynthetiQ
October 10, 2012
Team Queens Canada - ChimeriQ x SynthetiQ

Team Queens Canada says: "This is a short trailer that we made about our project and what you can expect to see from us at this year's Regional Jamboree!"

Team uOttawa_CA - The Nature of Synthetic Biology Trailer
October 5, 2012
Team uOttawa_CA - The Nature of Synthetic Biology Trailer

"This year, the uOttawa iGEM Team produced a full-length documentary entitled "The Nature of Synthetic Biology". The video discusses the definition of a synthetic organism, the potential dangers of introduction of synthetic organisms into the environment, and the ways in which synthetic biology should be regulated. Our documentary is designed to disseminate the key concepts and issues concerning synthetic biology to the general public, and is posted on YouTube to facilitate world-wide access.

You are invited to view our documentary trailer here!"

Team SDU-Denmark - GMO's and ethics
October 3, 2012
Team SDU-Denmark - GMO's and ethics

"During this year's iGEM competition, we were involved in the making of a informational video in cooperation with several other iGEM teams around the world. Very early on it was decided that the product of our labor should be focused on the ethical aspects of synthetic biology but also teach the public about iGEM and synthetic biology in general.

Check out their video!

Team NRP-UEA-Norwich - Quanticare Cura Tattoo Product Launch
September 28, 2012
Team NRP-UEA-Norwich - Quanticare Cura Tattoo Product Launch

"This is a fictitious concept video produced by the Norwich Research Park and University of East Anglia 2012 iGEM Team. It explores a futuristic world where synthetic biology is commonplace, and comes in the form product launch of a biosensing tattoo named 'Cura'. Cura is produced with immortalised cells containing specific gene systems, allowing each strand of the tattoo to sense different chemicals within the body and either report on changes or act upon changes itself, harnessing the power and potential of synthetic biology."

Team ZJU-China - The Scaffold in Syn and Bio's Love
September 28, 2012
Team ZJU-China - The Scaffold in Syn and Bio's Love

"Do you believe in true love and want to know more about RNA Scaffold? Check out an awesome musical comic video from ZJU-China team! Enjoy the romantic love story of Syn & Bio!"

Check out their video!

Team Shenzhen - Project YAO #1.0
September 26, 2012
Team Shenzhen - Project YAO #1.0

"In iGEM 2012, team Shenzhen is to construct a real semiautonomous organelle from the natural one, yeast mitochondrion. We call it Yeast Artificial Organelle, and YAO for short.

Click for more details."

Team Shenzhen - Stories of Team
September 26, 2012
Team Shenzhen- Stories of Team

"Shenzhen is a special consortium named after a city. Team members are not from one school, but eight, including HUST, SCU, SCUT, UESTC, WHU, SCNU, SEU and CUHK.

Click to find their stories in Shenzhen!"

Team Fatih-Medical - Project Description
September 26, 2012
Team Fatih-Medical - Project Description

"Our project description for ''Cancel the Cancer''. We hope this video will provide you a quick, comfortable look at our project."

Watch their video here!

Team OUC-China - Synthetic Biology in Qingdao
September 19, 2012
Team OUC-China - Synthetic Biology in Qingdao

"As the sole igem team from Shandong Province, OUCigem has made huge efforts to bring synthetic biology into our school. Beside academic preparation, we have also organized a lot of social actiivities to publicize synthetic biology: we introduces synthetic biology to students in local high school; we are setting up a system for educating new college igemers for the next generation of Synthetic Biologists; we as well built good cooperation with QIBEBT. We believe OUCigemers will make more and better progress in the future."

Check out their video!

Team UANL Mty-Mexico - The Tunnel of Synthetic Biology expo
September 18, 2012
Team UANL Mty-Mexico - The Tunnel of Synthetic Biology expo

"We are going to organize an interactive expo in our uni this September 19, 20 and 21. This expo is called "Túnel de la Biología Sintética" (The Tunnel of Synthetic Biology), which is basically a set of 10 stations (with posters and interactive activities) arranged in a manner that resembles a tunnel, where we'll introduce the general public to Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology using an accessible language." - Team UANL Mty-Mexico

There will be an online tour in English at the following times:

  • Sept 19 - 10:00AM Dallas time / 17:00 Paris time
  • Sept 20 - 10:00AM Dallas time / 17:00 Paris time
  • Sept 20 - 8:00AM Sydney time
  • Sept 21 - 8:00AM Sydney time

Follow along at their Facebook group, and Twitter (@iGEMUANL)! Click here for the tour!

Team Trieste - SocialiGEM network
September 18, 2012
Team Trieste 2012 - SocialiGEM network

"SocialiGEM: Everything you want in one common space. Add your photo, open a blog or a group and chat with other igemmers. SocialiGEM is the easiest way to share information and to keep in touch with other igemmers. Sign in and help Team Trieste to improve it!!"

Team METU - Team Video
September 17, 2012
Team METU - Team Video

"Hi, we are Team METU. After several ideas and shootings and several disappointments with our team video, we thought why so serious, we have tons of funny clips we shot for ourselves. So with the aid of a small camera and this years funny and catchy songs, we edited our small funny video clips to show the iGEM community our fun team and share our fun in the lab with all of you."

Check out their video!

Team TU Munich - Registry survey
September 14, 2012
Team TU Munich 2012 - Registry survey

"We are this year's iGEM team from the TU München. Within our team and also in discussions with other iGEM teams during the last years we came across a potential point for improvement: Standardization of BioBrick part descriptions.

To achieve the best output for all of us we appreciate your input and feedback. In addition we will provide you with a small present for the collaboration page of your wiki and we will raffle a typical Bavarian present among all teams completing the following survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/B8LZNXQ.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us under igem (at) wzw.tum.de."

Team Peking - Historic iGEM Projects Review
September 13, 2012
Team Peking 2012 - Historic iGEM Projects Review

"Sharing and learning from each other is one of the most important features of the iGEM competition, in that any lack of experience could be well ameliorated by studying the projects and the way of presenting them of other and/or previous teams. We managed to introduce you some representative projects from different perspective. And we hope this collection might help iGEMers with their projects and presentations."

Check out their video review!

Team Peking - Sowing Tomorrow's Synthetic Biologists
September 13, 2012
Team Peking 2012 - Sowing Tomorrow's Synthetic Biologists

"As an emerging field, Synthetic Biology calls for more lively and intelligent young minds to generate ideas with great potentials. This summer, Peking2012 iGEM team has done a great job to motivate high school students to study Synthetic Biology and to guide them toward future participation in iGEM competition."

Watch their video here!

Autodesk video tutorials
September 13, 2012
Autodesk video tutorials

Teams, check out the series of Autodesk tutorial videos for user tips and shortcuts! Tutorials are available for the following:

survey: enabling technologies of synthetic biology
September 12, 2012
survey checklist image

Linda Kahl has formulated a survey to get information that will help define the enabling technologies of synthetic biology. She writes:

''Dear Colleagues,
Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a research associate working with Drew Endy to investigate and develop options for how property rights can best be applied and adapted to support innovation in synthetic biology. As part of my work, I would like to assemble a baseline list of the "enabling technologies" of synthetic biology. This would be a helpful first step in evaluating the background property rights status for the technologies that are considered most useful/valuable for research and development of synthetic biology applications.
I ask that you please complete this survey to help define the enabling technologies of synthetic biology. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete - just answer the questions based on your own experience and perspective. Answers received by September 15th would be most helpful. EVERYONE WHO SENDS IN A RESPONSE WITH THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS WILL RECEIVE A SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Please don't hesitate to call or email with any questions, or even just to chat about enabling technologies in synthetic biology.
Best,
Linda''

Team Fatih-Medical - Team Video
September 7, 2012
Team Fatih-Medical - Team Video

''Hi! We are the Fatih-Medical Team. In our project, we're dealing with a severe disease like cancer. But this fact didn't prevent us from also having fun at our lab work. We're pleased to introduce our team. Enjoy our video!''

Team Dundee - We Didn't Mess Our Clones Up
September 7, 2012
Team Dundee - We Didn't Mess Our Clones Up

"We here at Dundee University have re-written a popular Billy Joel anthem to celebrate the ecstasy of successful cloning, and the agony of when it all goes wrong. We think all other participants can relate to this tale."

Check out their video!

Team Tec-Monterrey - A day at the lab
September 6, 2012
Team Tec-Monterrey - A day at the lab

Team Tec-Monterrey says: "Hello! We are Team Tec-Monterrey from Monterrey, México. We have been working really hard all summer but also having loads of fun. In this video you take a glance at a normal day at our lab. Don't forget to visit our wiki for more fun stuff."

Team Paris Bettencourt - Project overview
September 1, 2012
Team Paris Bettencourt - Project overview

Team Paris Bettencourt made a video introducing their project for this year! For more information about their project, check out their wiki!

Team BostonU - New England meet-up
August 17, 2012
Team BostonU - New England meet-up

"The Boston University iGEM team would like to invite you to participate in the first ever New England iGEM (NEGEM) meeting in Boston on Saturday, September 15th. We thought it would be a great opportunity for the New England regional teams to meet one another and practice presenting before the Regional Jamboree in October so students and advisers can give the teams feedback and the teams will have time to improve their presentations before October. We'll happily welcome other teams from the North East outside of New England if you want to travel to Boston for the day. We hope to see you in September! For more information, please contact Traci Haddock (thaddock at bu dot edu), the BU Team Adviser."

Team University College London - gemFM radio
August 16, 2012
Team University College London - gemFM radio

"#gemFM is University College London's iGEM radio show. Their aim is to raise awareness of the breadth of projects synthetic biology offers, and offer a platform for iGEM teams to share their project and reflect on the competition. Each episode features an in-depth conversation with a team and an expert interview."

Tune in here!

Team UT-Tokyo-Software - BioBrick Search program
August 14, 2012
Team UT-Tokyo-Software - BioBrick Search program

Team UT-Tokyo-Software created a BioBrick search program!

"'BioBrick Search' by UT-Tokyo-Software is a web application for searching BioBrick parts that everyone can easily use on web browser. Search results are sorted by criteria such as relevance to your input, popularity and reliability to ensure you get the BioBrick you want faster than ever. Please try it out!"

Team NYMU-Taipei - Taiwan iGEM Meet-Up
August 13, 2012
Team NYMU-Taipei - Taiwan iGEM Meet-Up

Team NYMU-Taipei is hosting a team meet-up on August 15th and says: "After devoting ourselves to amazing ideas for half of the summer vacation, it is high time for us to share the inspiration, excitement and initial results. On August 15th, let's huddle, dear iGEMers. Let dreams from synthetic biology tie all of us together."

Check out their schedule and video!

Team UANL_Mty-Mexico - Bio! Blog
August 13, 2012
Team UANL_Mty-Mexico - Bio! Blog

Team UANL_Mty-Mexico are continuing their blog from last year and they've updated their iGEM History database! Check it out, and read their posts on iGEM and synthetic biology.

Team Stanford-Brown 2012 - iGEM memes
August 8, 2012
Team Stanford-Brown 2012 - iGEM memes

Team Stanford-Brown created a Facebook page for iGEM memes, and says: "You know who you are. You revel in minipreps, ligations, and gel extractions. You toil with biobricks. Share your stories here. Be Great [and submit your memes to igemmemes@gmail.com]."

Team NTNU Trondheim 2012 - Matchmaker website
August 1, 2012
Team NTNU Trondheim 2012 - Matchmaker website

Team NTNU Trondheim says: "The iGEM matchmaker [website] makes it possible for teams to share their strengths and what they would like help with, making it easy to get in touch with other teams."

Team Edinburgh 2012 - Project Abstract
July 24, 2012
Team Edinburgh 2012 - Project Abstract

Team Edinburgh created a video that describes their goals and project!

Team Bielefeld-Germany 2012 - Introducing the Team
July 19, 2012
Team Bielefeld-Germany 2012 - Introducing the Team

Meet the members of Team Bielefeld-Germany in this video!

Team University College London 2012 - Plastic Republic Trailer
July 19, 2012
Team University College London 2012 - Plastic Republic Trailer

Team University College London made this video to explain their project!