Safety Form is ready! Submit a Preliminary version by July 21

All teams should complete a Preliminary Version of the Safety Form. Answer the questions that you can answer, and leave blank the ones you cannot answer yet.

If you need extra time for any reason, please email safety AT igem DOT org. For more information, check the Safety Hub.

Upcoming deadlines

Preliminary Safety Form - July 21

On this form, you will tell us about your safety training, the organisms/parts you are using, the potential risks of your project, and what you have done (or will do) to minimize those risks.

Visit the Safety Hub for more information.

Track Selection - July 28

Tracks in the iGEM competition allow teams to focus their project towards a specific subject area within synthetic biology and allow them to know who they will compete against for the track award. Track selection is due on July 28

See what options you have available on our Tracks page and contact us if your team has any questions!

iGEM Meetups

It is never to late to organize a meetup!

Meetups are opportunities to get together with teams near you, meet iGEMers and help each other with their projects!

Did your team already participate in a meetup? Be sure to post pictures, videos and all media! Share your event with all the iGEM Community

Visit the Meet ups page for more information.

iGEM Community page

The iGEM 2014 Community page is up! If you have news, events, team videos, etc., that you would like to share with the rest of the iGEM community, email us at: hq (at) igem.org!

We've recently added community contributions from:

• Team Aalto-Helsinki - BioBrick Seeker and Team Seeker tools
• Teams SYSU-Software and SYSU-China - Biobrick Blast tool
• Automatically generate plans for assembling your genetic constructs -Evan Appleton, Boston University
• Team Virginia - Survey

New Partner: ERASynBio

ERASynBio has joined as an official iGEM 2014 Partner and will be offering a special partner offer to teams. Following their support of advancing European teams in previous years, ERASynBio is pleased to invite applications for the iGEM 2014 Giant Jamboree registration credit! For more details see the Partner Offers page.