IGEM:The Citadel/Multimedia

Video & Audio

Below you will find our favorite videos on synthetic biology, iGEM, and other interesting topics.

• A quick how-to style film by the 2009 Southampton team. It covers what new teams can expect from iGEM, both the good and the bad.

• It wouldn't be an emerging field without a few child prodigies on the scene. Gabriel See's work with the Washington University Team making a LEGO Liquid Handling Robot is mind-blowing, inspiring stuff. There's also a hilarious moment 55 seconds into this Youtube video, when a reporter talks about Gabriel being able to understand "nucleotide sequences ... whatever they are". You'll laugh and cry at the same time.

• The Biobrick trophy-holding Cambridge 2009 Team developed a truly impressive project. But what caught Mac Cowell's attention was the interesting application one artistic designer came up with for the project...

• Here's the 2008 iGEM competition being covered by PBS's News Hour. Quite good for a mainstream media report (feat. Randy Rettberg, Pamela Silver, and Mac Cowell).

• This beautifully shot and edited video article centers on the legendary MIT professor (now at Stanford), Drew Endy.

• Eric Ma delivers a magnificent introduction to the field. He has a knack for avoiding talking over a newcomer's head and still conveying the power of synthetic biology. His passion for iGEM is very infectious. Eric was a member of the 2008 team from the University of British Columbia.

• This is the first part of a thought-provoking debate between Drew Endy and Jim Thomas on the ethics of synthetic biology. The whole talk is available at the Long Now Foundation's website.

• An animation of DNA transcription and translation. Rivaled in beauty only by Inner Life of a Cell.

• A supplemental video to a 2009 paper on bacterial timekeeping via quorum sensing. The link to this paper is available under the "Resources" tab.