Team:ETH Zurich/Team/Overview

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"Meet us" video

How the Team met

Part of the team heared of Igem during the Synthetic Biology Lecture given by our Instructors at Igem. The rest of the team that didnt originate from this lecture applied after reciving this ETH wide mail promoting Igem

What is the most exciting thing natural scientists and engineers can do together? - The iGEM summer competition!

iGEM is an international student competition in the field of Synthetic Biology, organized by MIT. Each participating university sets up an interdisciplinary student team consisting of 8 to 10 biologists/chemists and engineers.

Half of the team has to be undergraduate students, but also MSc and PhD students can participate.

The team's goal is to collect ideas on a novel biological system, analyze the biological and engineering design alternatives, including mathematical modeling of the system, and choose the 'best' design.

This system is then translated into DNA code, put into a cell and tested experimentally.

In November, all teams present their projects at the MIT in Boston. In 2007, there were 57 teams from all over the world, including teams from MIT, UCSF, Caltech, Duke, Stanford, TIT, Princeton, Cambridge, Imperial, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and more teams from the US, Australia, India, China, Japan, and Europe (http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Main_Page ).

After major successes in 2005 (best engineering), 2006(best device) and 2007 (best presentation), ETH is participating again this year, and Profs. Sven Panke and Jörg Stelling are assembling a mixed team of Engineers and natural scientists from the Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. level. If you want to be part of the iGEM experience, apply until April 11th on



Nine Students got selected and on Wednesday the 16th of April the first meeting got sceduled.
Students from very diverse fields got selected for the team as you can see on our Team Members Page.

Boot Camp

What followed, the team of last year liked to refer as "the Boot Camp". An intense two weeks Crash Course into the field of Syntetic Biology was provided by our Advisors, during which we learned about the diverse aspects of Syntectic Biology as you can see below:

The "Bootcamp" Scedule
Date Topic1 Topic2
Mo, 21.4 Syntetic Biology: Foundations for engineering biology Refactoring bacteriophage T7



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