The Premier Undergraduate Competition in

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Stanford iGEM

• The Premier Undergraduate Competition in
• Synthetic Biology

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What is iGEM?

• International Genetically Engineered Machine
  competition
• annual, worldwide tournament in synthetic biology
  held at MIT.
• OBJECTIVE design and build novel engineered
  biological systems using standardized DNA-based
  partssynthetic biology

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What can I do with synthetic biology?

• Emerging, multidisciplinary field of
  bioengineering.
• Design and build living organisms that behave as
  expected.
• Write DNA programs that do your bidding.

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TAATACGACTCACTAT AGGGAGACCTAGA
011101000101011 00110111000100 001000001
DNA is a machine language.
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USE IT.

• iGEM 2007
• artificial red blood cells
• synthetic organelle
• bacterial solar fuel cell
• electric field activated transcription factors
• lentivirus-delivered RNAi circuit for cancer
  detection and destruction

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Sound cool? Join us.

• Stanford iGEM Team Recruitment 2008-2009
• 6-12 undergraduate students and graduate student
  mentors
• All majors, all backgrounds, no research
  experience needed.
• Come to information session
• Thursday, November 20th
• 8 PM _at_ Old Union 216
• Applications due December 1, 2008.
• Get a flyer for more information or email
  igem.stanford_at_gmail.com