UMaryland International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Looking for New Members - Dec. 8

The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is held annually and involves over 250 teams from universities around the world working on synthetic biology projects. As you may have heard, the UMD iGEM team sent its inaugural team this year and came back with a gold medal!

 

The UMD iGEM team is currently open for new members interested in participating in various aspects of the iGEM competition:

1. Undergraduate wet lab research on a student-driven synthetic biology project
2. Artistic design and coding of a wiki displaying project goals and results
3. Biological modeling of various protein constructs
4. Investigation of the ethics and human practices of synthetic biology
5. Creating a computer program illustrating our research topic

Interested? Come to our open meeting on Monday, December 8^th at 4:00 PM in CHEM1407! If you can’t make it, please contact bquimby@umd.edu for more information.