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Team:Oxford/about
From 2014.igem.org
Welcome to Oxford University iGEM homepage
Welcome to the homepage of the Oxford University iGEM team.
The team consists of 6 biochemists, 3 engineers, a biologist, a chemist, a lawyer and a PPE student. The team will spend eight weeks in the summer designing a waste disposal device from biological components to detect and degrade DCM, a toxic solvent routinely used in the lab as well as in a variety of everyday products.
Even before the project has begun, the team have been promoting Oxford's presence in the competition. It has brought iGEM teams from across the UK and Europe together to encourage the exchange of ideas and is working with the University's Synthetic Biology Society to ensure a legacy beyond the 2014 competition.
Recent news
Filming in the parks
The team spent the weekend in the University Parks filming footage for our new youtube channel. The channel will aim to promote easy and fun science experiments and should go some way towards showing young people across the world that science really can be very entertaining.
Oxford team hit Sheffield for July meet up
Four members of the Oxford iGEM team attended the meet up organised by the team at the University of Sheffield on Friday the 18th of July. The purpose of this visit was to continue building the relationships between teams that were started at the Oxford-based meet up last month. The team gave a short presentation on our work so far and learned more about other projects. (read more)
Team members give talk at Royal Society
Team members Glen Gowers and Philip Lorenz attended the 2014 London Biochemistry Alumni Event hosted at the Royal Society. (read more)
Team hosts GB teams for talk by Randy Rettberg
On June 19th 2014, the Oxford iGEM team invited all of the teams in the UK and Ireland to talks in the Oxford University Biochemistry Department, including a talk by the CEO of iGEM Randy Rettberg; 'Synthetic Biology - Short Past and Long Future'. (read more)
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