Discover iGEM at Berkeley's unique approach
to the 2022 iGEM Competition.
We've fostered seven experimental teams—four wetlab and three computational.
With seven teams, we can provide over 70 students with opportunities to do completely undergraduate-led research, asking and answering the questions they find most compelling in the genetic engineering space.
We've incubated teams
dedicated to ideation.
These nascent teams are trained in the process of literature review and project ideation, working on identifying a niche in synthetic and computational biology that can be developed into a project. They are also given access to our wetlab and computational training resources, which helps them hit the ground running once they have fleshed out their project idea. New Ideas Teams can apply to become an Experimental Team by completing a Project Proposal: a mini grant-like application that details aims, motivations, and experimental plan.
We host a poster symposium for bioengineering research.
We believe communication is a vital aspect of science, so we hold the annual Cal Undergraduate Bioengineering Symposium, or CUBS, to allow students within iGEM at Berkeley and other organizations on campus to share their work.
We also host a course for and by undergrads—Foundations of Engineering Biology.
The class, open to all students, functions as a practical stepping stone into the world of synthetic biology with hands-on wetlab and computational experience.
Our inaugural submission to iGEM highlights our organization's unique structure with a novel, at-scale experimental workflow that both teaches the basics of working in the wetlab or computational work and generates new data with every repeat. Screen-Sprinting carries out our mission to produce novel data and foster new scientists. We hope you enjoy exploring our work and it inspires more iGEM teams to reimagine the traditional iGEM format for greater equity and inclusion
