IGEM:MIT/2006
About
iGEM is the international genetically engineered machines competition. The purpose of the competition is to specify an engineered biological system using DNA. Systems will be constructed from standard biological parts. Although iGEM originated at MIT, this year, there are 30 schools participating from around the world. You can read more about the competition here.
The MIT iGEM team will be made up of 4-5 students working fulltime during summer 2006 on engineering a biological system. In addition, we have 4 graduate student advisors and 1 faculty advisor.
What you can do
In 2004, students in Texas built a strain of bacteria that could be used to take bacterial photographs. Here's one of the first pictures they took. Their work was published in Nature.
Team members
Advisors
- Barry Canton (bcanton)
- Austin Che (ausche)
- Drew Endy (endy)
- Jason Kelly (jasonk)
- Reshma Shetty (rshetty)
Students
To be determined. Please apply!
How to apply
If you're interested in applying to be on the 2006 iGEM team, please email one of the above folks (@mit.edu). It would be useful, but not essential, for you to have some wet lab experience. Most important is that you be motivated about engineering biology.
Please provide the following in your email:
- Your resume
- Your year and major
- A short statement of why you would like to join.
- Specify a project that you think is doable (i.e. will work at the end of the summer) and will be interesting/cool to build.
- A statement of your commitment to work full-time in the summer and to help MIT win this competition!
Sponsorship
If you're interested in providing sponsorship for the 2006 MIT iGEM team (either financial or otherwise), please contact Drew Endy at (endy AT mit DOT edu).
Find out more
- 2005 MIT iGEM wiki
- Read more about engineering biology.
- Polka Dots: One of the first years, a precursor to iGEM
