iGEM of UBC

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.

Hello iGEMers,

1. First meeting of the year.
Our first club meeting of the year will be on Wednesday January 19th, 2011, from 5-6pm, in Michael Smith Laboratories, room 101.
Michael Smith Laboratories is to the left of the book store.

2. Bring your friends!
If you have any friends who are interested – whether they be in Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Music, etc. feel free to bring them along. The more the merrier! Having a diverse team is definitely essential to having a more complete and successful project.

3. Questions?
E-mail us at ubcigem@gmail.com

We hope to see you all soon!

Hello iGEMers,

Applications to become a team member for UBC iGEM 2011 will launch late February/early March due to administrative technicalities.

Similar to last year, we will be asking all potential applicants to submit their resume and unofficial transcript to ubcigem@gmail.com. Further, we will be conducting interviews over a 2-week time frame in order to accommodate everyone. A sign up sheet will be made available once certain technicalities get resolved on our end.

We apologize for the inconvenience as we know many of you are very enthusiastic and cannot wait to begin formulating project ideas! We will, of course, continue to host club meetings. Our next one will be some time in the next week or so. If interested, please fill out this doodle: http://www.doodle.com/tvqdmvcad6gbv67a by this Sunday (9th) and we will try to accommodate as many people as we can!

We look forward to meeting you!

If you have any questions at any time, always feel free to e-mail us at ubcigem@gmail.com

We are the Synthetic Biology Club at the University of British Columbia.

Synthetic biology, an emerging and rapidly growing field, is seeking talented minds cross disciplines to tackle problems in our changing world.

iGEM aims at promoting this budding field in the academic world.

How to stay in touch with us?

For those who will be headed down to the SBN event, there will be enough space on Mark’s car for 6 people. So far confirmed are:

1. Dan
2. Eric
3. Simran
4. Imran
5. Jason
6. Phillip
7. Mark

If need be, Dan has offered to drive down as well.

We will be meeting at the MSL at 4:30PM. Please be punctual! (I will try my best too – lab work, unfortunately, always takes up more time that I would think…