Tuesday, September 2, 2014

new research club - iGEM - Meeting Sept. 3 at 7:00 PM Klause 2447

Love science? Interested in research? You should think about joining a new club on campus, iGEM. It is a research club focused on an international synthetic biology competition called iGEM, which stands for International Genetically Engineered Machines. It is a yearly competition that usually consists of a regional competition. Upon advancement from the regional competition, there is then an international competition. Each team is given biological parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. In the past, Georgia Tech has had a very small team, but we want to expand this team and become a club on campus so that more people can participate. Our project this year involves engineering bacteria to convert methane to methanol to decrease methane emissions near fracking activity. You can learn more about the club and our project at our meeting this Wednesday at 7:00 pm in Klaus 2447. There will be free food provided, so come out and enjoy!

Thanks,
Kathryn Fitton
President of iGEM Team at Georgia Tech