Hello <<First name>>,
This is Nicola, Sayantani, Uttara & Hassnain from the iGEM Community Newsletter team. This month, we bring you exciting opportunities to join the BioArts Network, become an iGEM 2022 competition judge, and to submit your open jobs and opportunities to our newly created job board. Check out the Biodiversity Youth Leadership Program and don't forget to share your iGEM story with the Science Communication Network!
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Lead the iGEM Community BioArts Network
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The vision of iGEM Community's BioArt Network is to build a space for creatives passionate about synbio, and scientists passionate about art. As a community, discipline, and philosophy, synthetic biology brings together perspectives and expertise shaped by multidisciplinary minds. Applications close on 31st May, 2022.
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Share Your Story - Introducing iGEMx
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Do you have an iGEM story to share? Or even a story beyond iGEM? Well, now’s your chance!
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We are introducing iGEMx, a project from our SciComm network, to give you a platform to share your stories. But first, we want to hear from you! Tell us more about the stories you want to hear, or the talks you want to share, and we’ll provide you with the platform. Sharing your thoughts will take less than 5 min.
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Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology journal: iGEM Issue
This issue features outstanding and exceptional iGEM projects from the 2019 and 2020 competitions, highlighting the wisdom and vitality of the next generation of synthetic biologists.
Find all twelve published papers here!
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Call for Participants - iGEM World Environment Day & Stockholm+50 Event (June 3, 2022)
iGEM is going to hold a webinar for the world environment day on June 3rd: “Synthetic Biology: a bold choice for a healthy planet?”. We are now recruiting speakers and participants for the webinar. If you have projects, ideas, works or thoughts about environment protection & securing a healthy planet, please apply by May 27, 2022!
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Apply to be an iGEM 2022 Competition Judge
Judge applications are now open for the iGEM 2022 Competition. Through the judging process, our judges will evaluate, celebrate, and help guide the next generation of synthetic biologists. Judges help the entire iGEM community celebrate the hard work and achievements of our iGEM teams.
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SynBio Research Highlights
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Modulating gene regulation function by chemically controlled transcription factor clustering
Wu et al. (2022)
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Recent studies have suggested that transcriptional protein condensates (or clusters) may play key roles in gene regulation and cell fate determination. However, it remains largely unclear how the gene regulation function is quantitatively tuned by transcription factor (TF) clustering and whether TF clustering may confer emergent behaviors as in cell fate control systems. [...] Read more
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High School SynBio Summit
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High School SynBio Summit invites Annika Shi (UNC’26) and Tingzhen Liu (Brandeis ‘25) as our June iGEM alumni panelists. For high school iGEM teams, we offer a discussion on the topic of ''Planning in iGEM: A Full Guide to Strategic Team Management''. Learn more about us through the iGEM Community website.
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Biodiversity Youth Leadership Program
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This year, iGEM will host a Biodiversity Youth Leadership Program leading up to the COP 15 meeting in Kunming, China.
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This program will include an online youth summit, youth dialogues on synthetic biology innovation and biodiversity protection, and educational workshops to promote the understanding of global biodiversity governance. iGEM delegates to COP 15 will be selected from among the leadership program participants. Applications close May 31, 2022. Apply now and read more about it here!
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Are you looking to hire iGEMers for your team? We got you!
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Industry/Non-academic Job Opportunities
- Research Associate in infectious diseases and immunology
- Locus Biosciences, Durham, NC, US
- Biomedical Scientist, Immunology
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, US
- Research Scientist, Medicinal chemistry
- Gilead Sciences, Seattle, WA, US
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Academic Positions
- Postdoctoral associate, Yeast Synthetic Biology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, US
- Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular biology
- New York University, Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY, US
- Postdoctoral fellow, Biomaterials and drug delivery
- Karp/Lee Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
- Postdoctoral fellow in Synthetic Biology
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
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This newsletter was made like any good PCR- the machine stopped midway through, and the team started over again, but those bands came out like a Picasso. {June is also Hassnain's birthday month! Happy Birthday Hassnain!}
Waving from around the world,
The iGEM Community Newsletter Team on behalf of iGEM Community
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