Taking part in the iGEM competition - behind the scenes

Beside all formalities and scientific work, you will get a read how we managed to organize all issues concerning iGEM. From team formation to finances to the attendance of the Giant Jamboree.

Nov 2013	- Foundation of iGEM Hannover - Presentation and developping of topics begin.
Dec 2013
Jan 2014	- Writing a draft paper about iGEM and synthetic biology to find give possible sponsors an impression of our work.
Feb 2014	- Our topic is determined. We have chosen to lead off the fight against pollution with heavy metals. - Completion of our draft paper with information about our topic. - Visiting the local sewage plant.
Mar 2014	- We officially signed up for iGEM competition 2014! - Our homepage is online now.
Apr 2014
May 2014	- Synthesis of our self-designed T4-MBP is submitted. - Andreas and Fabian took part in the iGEM meeting 2014 in Munich. - The iGEM team Braunschweig visited us for a barbecue.
June 2014	- Andreas presented our topic at the science slam in hanover. - We started visiting schools to conduct a presentation about synthetic biology and how we use it to achieve our goal.
July 2014
Aug 2014	- We invited the newspaper "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung" to achieve publicity. - We built up an information desk in the inner-city of hanover to give passerby an understanding of synthetic biology by demonstrating a DNA isolation with simple housewares, plaing a memoryquiz and showing in vitro cultures. - Anke, Fabian and Andreas visited the iGEM team Bielefeld to learn how to build up the wiki.
Sep 2014	- Creating our own wiki.
Oct 2014
Nov 2014