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11/11/24: 2011 iGEM Season Coming to an End

Thank you very much to all the iGEM members for being so dedicated and awesome!! We'll see you in Winter term when we put the iGEM team back in to gears in preparation for the 2012 Season!!!!

To students that are interested in joining: Keep checking this website or contact us! There will be a lot of opportunities that you can help out on in the winter term!

11/10/10: Waterloo iGem Team has been selected to attend the iGem World Championship at MIT!

During the Thanksgiving weekend, the Waterloo iGem team went down to Indianapolis, Indiana in order to attend the Regional Americas iGem Competition. The result of this competition was that we have made it to the World Championship!. The Waterloo iGem team will be making our ways down to MIT to present our project again infront of the world! Universities from Europe and Asia will also be present!

11/5/03: SUMMER RECRUITMENT SESSIONS

If you are interested in joining Waterloo iGEM this term, these information/recruitment sessions are the perfect way to learn more about the team and how to get involved. This term, we will be holding two recruitment sessions focusing on different parts of the team.

Lab, Outreach, and Human Practices recruitment session
Wednesday May 11th, 6 - 7pm, RCH 305 Modelling and Software recruitment session
Thursday May 12th, 6 - 7pm, RCH 305

To keep following the team please sign up for the discussion forum to keep up with ongoing work! Sign up for email digests or subscribe to the RSS feed so you don't have to manually check for updates. To get involved with upcoming meetings, watch the Team_Calendar (see link for information on how to follow the calendar easily). Finally, don't forget to fill out the [http://igem.uwaterloo.ca/info form student information form].

Alright! You've finished signing up for stuff (at least the main stuff), so now what? If you're looking for more information about our 2010 project, the official wiki for the competition is hosted at http://2010.igem.org/Team:Waterloo. Our Resources page can also help you learn more about synthetic biology.

10/6/13: A recorded slidecast of the Biology4Engineers crash course is now available!

10/05/21: What current science gets our team excited? Follow us on Google Reader to find out!

Join our Facebook group to connect with past and present team members, plus receive invites to our social events!

The International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM) is an annual Synthetic Biology competition hosted by MIT. Teams from all over the world use a set of standard, interchangeable biological parts to design and build biological systems and operate them within living cells. New standardized parts are designed and submitted by teams each year. Projects ranging from a rainbow of pigmented bacteria, to banana and wintergreen smelling bacteria, an arsenic biosensor, Bactoblood, and buoyant bacteria are then presented at the iGEM Championship Jamboree every November. The Waterloo iGEM team has had a history of competing every year since 2005. This team was awarded a silver medal in 2007, and bronze medals in 2008 and 2009. Just wait until you see what we have in store for 2010! If you are interested in learning about, participating in, or supporting the Waterloo iGEM Team, you have come to the right place.

Why Join iGEM?

The iGEM competition offers undergraduate students the opportunity to gain research experience not usually available until graduate studies. Students participating in iGEM are some of the brightest minds from the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering. Members of the team acquire a strong grasp of the project design and research process, cutting-edge lab techniques, as well as the ability to communicate with individuals from a variety of disciplines: a unique and invaluable skillset, giving iGEM participants a competitive advantage in both academics and industry.

In addition to microbiology and genetics techniques, students may also choose to join the modelling team and dev elop software used by the team for bioinformatics, mathematical modeling and simulation. Additionally, students can choose to participate in our outreach and marketing ventures, or graphic design projects.

Collaborate with Our Team

Have an awesome idea? Talk to us! Collaboration is in the best interests of all teams involved with iGEM. Waterloo iGEM is interested in collaboration for larger scale projects and also for sharing components, innovative techniques and material assets within reason. We are also interested in working with researchers and students that are not part of iGEM on other Synthetic and Computational Biology projects.

Business and Sponsorship

Easy publicity and high visibility-- Corporate sponsors benefit from supporting our team! Each year, iGEM teams gather all around the world at an international conference. Students from our team wear uniforms that proudly display the logos of our sponsors. In addition to international attention, you would be supporting a volunteer Synthetic Biology team affiliated with the University of Waterloo and helping students attack real world problems.

More about Sponsorship...