Indonesia Teams Meet Up

The first Indonesia Synthetic Biology teams meet up was held in Brawijaya University Malang on September 27-28, 2014. Teams from ITB, Brawijaya University, and Gajah Mada University joined this meet up. This event would be a preparation before the Giant Jamboree.

To introduce synthetic biology to people, there was a seminar on September 27 and a bioinformatics workshop on September 28. In this meet up each teams presented a brief overview of their project to initiates collaboration on both experiments and human practices.ITB_Indonesia collaborated with Brawijaya University as the speaker to socialize synthetic biology on 2013 and collaborating in wetlab field on 2014.

In the end of this event, team member for all universities discussed to build synthetic biology community in Indonesia. One of topic discussed is the plan of Gajah Mada University to join the iGEM competition next year. Indonesia is expected to contribute in synthetic biology and from this meet up we hope that we can raise the interest of other universities in Indonesia to join the iGEM competition.

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