Hello iGEMers,
Please find a summary of how to apply to the UBC iGEM 2011 team attached. Also included is a breakdown of the important dates involved with team formation.
In your application, please include:
a) Your ranking of where you feel you would be the best fit, in terms of the 3 pillars (wet lab, modeling and human practices)
b) Your ranking of interest in the 3 pillars (no-one will be exclusively working on one skill set)
c) A summary of your involvement in iGEM so far (meeting attendance etc.)
If you want to be on the UBC iGEM 2011 team you MUST submit your application to Dr. Lagally (lagally@msl.ubc.ca) by March 18th at 5pm.
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the past couple club meetings, we had presentations from Dr. Hieter, Dr. Madden and Dr. Beatty.
Dr. Madden (link: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~jmadden/) and Dr. Beatty (link: http://www.microbiology.ubc.ca/beatty) presented their joint research project, the goal of which is to use photosynthetic reaction centres to produce biophotovoltaic devices. This project is a combination of Electrical Engineering, Physics and Microbiology and could easily fit into the the 3 main pillars of an iGEM project (wet lab, modeling and human practices).
Dr. Hieter (link: http://www.msl.ubc.ca/faculty/hieter) presented his lab’s work on using yeast cells to model human chromosome maintenance which is heavily implicated in causing cancer. This area of research could easily encompass multiple iGEM projects and there should be no issues finding an area where iGEM and synthetic biology would be applicable.
Good luck!
Feel free to email us at ubcigem@gmail.com should you have any questions or concerns.
