UCSD’s iGEM team will join over 200 teams from across the country for a chance to compete for the BioBrick trophy.

UCSD’s computational iGEM team will focus on recruiting a team from a wide range of academic disciplines in order to expose students to interdisciplinary research. iGEM team members will have a chance to work closely with mentors during the summer, fostering a diverse skillset necessary for interdisciplinary fields such as Systems Biology. In addition to acquiring technical skills while working on the iGEM project, students in iGEM will also refine their presentation skills – typically iGEM students present their work in: an oral presentation at the iGEM World Jamboree, on a research poster, online wiki, and ocassionally, a submission to an academic journal. Participation in UCSD’s iGEM team will raise not only students’ confidence in their research abilities, but also their awareness of opportunities in emerging fields including Systems Biology.