Team:MIT/NEGEM
NEGEM - Northeastern iGEM Meetup (Collaboration)
This year, team MIT organized and hosted NEGEM, the North-Eastern Genetically Engineered Machines conference, in an effort to bring together and establish connections amongst the greater iGEM community. NEGEM was an opportunity for teams in the Northeast region of North America to present their preliminary project and receive valuable feedback from fellow iGEM teams, former iGEM judges, and other leading scientists. Each team received personalized advice from our judges regarding their research, presentation content, and presentation style. We found this experience to be extremely helpful in preparing for the Jamboree, and believe other teams benefited similarly.
We invited the following judges to our NEGEM Conference: Dr. Alazne Dominguez-Monedero, Dr. Wesley Block, Dr. Deepak Mishra, Dr. Suryateja Jammalamadaka, and some of the 2019 MIT iGEM team. We hosted two teams in person (Harvard and UConnecticut), and three teams virtually (ULaval, Stony Brook, and Stanford-Brown-Princeton). Team MIT wanted to make the regional meeting as open as possible, considering the many teams who would have had to travel for hours to attend otherwise. We took the teams on a tour of our lab and chatted about our projects over ice cream.
Location
Date: August 5th, 2019
Address: MIT Stata Center, Room 141
32 Vassar St, Cambridge MA 02139
Itinerary
13:00 Opening Remarks + Guest Speaker
13:45 Presentations and Feedback
- MIT
- ULaval
- Harvard
- Stony Brook
- UConnecticut
- Stanford-Brown-RISD
15:15 Ice Cream Social and Tour of Weiss Lab (Held in Weiss Lab for Synthetic Biology, 500 Technology Square)
16:15 Presentations and Feedback
17:45 Closing Remarks
Contact: igem-2019-students@mit.edu, igem-2019-mentors@mit.edu, MIT iGEM (Facebook), @igem_mit (Instagram), @iGEM_MIT (Twitter)
This page was written by Jessica Knapp and Vanessa Li