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===KULeuven=== * One student found out about Venter/minimal genome and came across sythetic bio and iGEM * Info session - 25 students interested * Picked team of ~12 students based on motivation letter not grades from across 4 disciplines * 2 molec bio labs * Center for biosciences, biotech, bioinformatics is donating money * Expect to learn ===LCG-UNAM-Mexico=== * Heard about iGEM through Pam Silver * Undergrad program in Genomic Science is supporting financially * Team of 13 students ===Groningen=== * Enthusiastic student whose father was in England and had heard about it, national newspapers, starting a new institute in Synthetic Bio * Want to integrate it into teaching courses * Advertised in University newspaper for students (and other professors) * Team of 12 students - biology, physics, chemistry * Meet 2x/week * Money from DSM (industry), new Syn Bio institute, University * Expect to meet other people and be active in the field ===TUMunchen=== * Advisor had heard about it; want to move toward the direction of SynBio * Looked for students through student lectures * Team of 11 students (biochem, biophysics, bioinformatics) ===ESBS-Strasbourg=== * Heard about iGEM through Drew * Team of 8 students who approached the school for support * Started thinking about projects around January * French Embassy is supporting them and the Paris team * Use this opportunity to start a course in SynBio (starting in June) ** School of Physics is also interested * Working on cell division control in yeast ===EPF-Lausanne=== * 2001 EPFL launched new life sciences which yielded interested faculty * Sent out letters and put up posters and recruited life sciences and engineering * Info session yielded 30 people, 20 applied via a proposal * Each group (4 of 3 people) proposed a project and they voted democratically on which one to proceed with * Are currently modeling to see whether project is feasible ===UNIPV-Pavia=== * Heard about iGEM from 2006 Bologna team * Housed within the biomedical engineering track of the university * Team of 6-10 people; have 2 students so far ===Heidelberg=== * Heard about iGEM through BioSysBio * Recruited via posters/flyers/webpage and received ~30 applications ===Newcastle=== * Heard of it through Nature article * Wanted to have a team in 07 but couldn't get funding so this year started earlier * Bioinformatics (3) and micro bio (2) and comp sci (1) * Based in school of computational science * BBSRC funding for bioinformatics and Society for Applied Biology funding * Meeting 1x/week with seminars and exercises -- interdisciplinary! * Looking to setup synbio masters in the future ===Valencia=== * Returning team * Organized talks/conferences to prepare and also a 2-week course on synbio * 10 students, 4 professors - engineering, chem, bio * Funding from regional government and anticipate univ and local gov support * Considering project on temperature measurement ===TUDelft=== * Stumbled on iGEM through another university's website * Difficult to find students because of a late start (students had already setup plans) * Team of 6 students - 3 life sci, 1 mechanical eng, 1 biomedical, 1 bioinformatician * Sensors and switches are popular prospects * Dept of biotech., Faculty of applied science, and Dept of nanotech are providing funding; Nanobioscience department might be started also housing synbio ===Warsaw=== * Students learned about iGEM through some exchange program with Cambridge University * University funding, Polish Foundation of Science (money comes in parts, contingent on success!) * Expecting to win (means we expect to succeed in our project so we can go to the Jamboree :) * 9 students - biotech, bio, chem ===Paris=== * Returning team; originally started with synbio club * Club continues to meet throughout the year and decided to focus on teaching foundational aspects as a way to have topics for the club * Students on team/club spending time in lab with high school students * Funding is difficult because of not being tied with a specific university; obtained help from Embassy, Every Computational team, Betancourt Foundation ** Focusing on obtaining money for several years instead of searching for funding every year * Starting an interdisciplinary masters program to get credit

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