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 Resources

Learn more about iGEM 2009, and synthetic biology.

For more info on this year's iGEM please see 2009.igem.org.

More links are available at iGEM Resources page

Visitors

 * Read more about What is Synthetic Biology?.

Project

 * Team Notebook and project description

Protocols

 * UChicago iGEM protocols
 * General Cloning Protocol
 * Western
 * Extremely helpful tutorials provided by J.C. Anderson Lab

Lab Etiquette

 * Go over the Do's and Dont's of Good Lab Citizenship

Wiki editing resources

 * Simple wiki editing examples
 * How to edit a page (extended - wikipedia)
 * Help with images (wikipedia)
 * Help with tables (wikipedia)
 * Easy wiki formatting tips


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 Information

Want to help out the iGEM team?

 * UChicago iGEM is supported by the Program in Physical and Chemical Biology,Abbott Fund,University of Chicago Uncommon Fund, BSCD fellowship and the Dean's Fund for Student Life. Our faculty advisers include Professor Steve Kron and senior lecturer Chris Schonbaum.
 * We are currently looking for additional funding to support undergraduate research, and cover registration fees, material and travel costs.
 * Learn more on what you can do to help on our fundraising page.

Want to join the iGEM team?

 * Graduate students and faculty interested in advising the team should email synbiochicago [at] gmail.com
 * Undergraduate students can get involved through the Synthetic Biology RSO by contacting Nora Yucel at (norayucel [at] uchicago.edu )

Sponsors
To view our current sponsors, please visit our Sponsors page.

Schedule

 * June 15 - Preliminary team rosters due
 * June 22- Summer term, training begins
 * July 6 - Official Research begins
 * August 1 - Team project descriptions due
 * September 10 - Summer research ends
 * October 30-November 2 - iGEM competition Jamboree, MIT, USA

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Project information

 * To see what projects are in the works, and access relevant papers see our brainstorming page.

Meetings

 * Projects! Weekly lab meetings to be announced.
 * For a week-to-week updates, go to our meeting notes or check out our Team Notebook


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 People

The University of Chicago iGEM team consists of 6 full-time undergraduate students and one part-time student working during summer 2009 on engineering a biological systems.

Students

 * Nora Yucel
 * Rob McConeghy
 * Damon Wang
 * Brandon Lee
 * Annie Kang
 * Tony Luo

Postdocs

 * Satoe Takahashi

Faculty Advisors

 * Steve Kron
 * Chris Schonbaum

Email undergrads: synbiochicago [AT] gmail.com


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