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Team/CINVESTAV-IPN-UNAM MX/iGEMMXmeetup.htm
From 2012.igem.org
iGEM MX meet up!
Maybe the most difficult part in making a new iGEM team is getting started, how do you get the right idea? How do you design the project? How do you work in teams? How do you get money? etc, . Since this is our first iGEM participation, we have had some little troubles that every team can face. We asked for opinions to answer all these questions in a document that can tell future iGEM teams what they should do in order to have success in the iGEM experience.
We organized the First iGEM Meet up between Mexican teams; it took place on August 10th, 2012, in CINVESTAV Irapuato, Mexico.
he purpose of this event was to establish a
collaboration network between Mexican iGEM
teams, with the goals of increase the potential of
Synthetic Biology
in our country, share
knowledge and obtain help from experts and
other students.
In this meetup, we invited participants from
Collegiate, High School and Entrepreneurship
Divisions. Each team was represented by some
of its members, and they were encouraged to
make an oral presentation about their iGEM
projects. During this event, all the teams
received comments and suggestions from other
iGEM students and researches from CINVESTAV
Irapuato.
Furthermore, this was a successful day because
we created agreements between Mexican iGEM
teams, some of them are the start of a
Collaboration Network in Mexican iGEM teams; the ideas to solve problems, such as the importation of
iGEM distributions; to share the experience of using some Biobricks and the creation of tutorial videos to
homogenize the protocols and techniques in Synthetic Biology.
We thank to the members who attended to this event and represented their teams:
Rhodofactory 2012
