UK iGEM Meetup 2018

**SYNOPSIS** * This meetup is a chance for 2018 UK iGEM teams to meet and to gain invaluable skills and expertise for their projects **IMPORTANT** *Registration deadline: 2nd July 2018. 7 sign=ups are available per team until then. After that point, remaining tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis. * The sign-up fee goes towards accommodation which includes both dinner and breakfast * We are very grateful to sponsors for heavily subsidising the sign-up fee: Promega, Bristol BioDesign Institute, SynBio CDT and CyBio **DESCRIPTION** This summer, SynBio UK is organising a UK-wide iGEM meetup at Oxford in partnership with SynBio.Oxford. The event will bring together present iGEM teams from across the UK as well as leading academic and industrial speakers. The meetup will be a chance for teams to discover what others are doing, form collaborations and learn about the meetup theme of success at iGEM through interactive sessions led by iGEM alumni, experts in entrepreneurship and human practices. Students will have the opportunity to present their ideas to each other and learn from the experience of past teams. By hosting the event early in the summer, SynBio UK aims to enable teams to incorporate feedback and discussions at a critical stage of their iGEM projects. **SESSION LEADERS & SPEAKERS** *Academia: - Dr. Karen Polizzi, ICL, principal supervisor of 2016 iGEM Grand Prize Winners - Dr. Tom Ellis, ICL, Reader in Synthetic Genome Engineering *Entrepreneurship: - Dr. John Collins, SynbiCITE - Dr. Ben Reeves, CustoMem *Human Practices: - Piers Millett, Director of Safety and Security at iGEM - *Dr. Sam Weiss Evans, Research Assistant Professor, Harvard University *Prize-winning iGEM alumni: - Henry Lloyd Laney - Stefan Grossfurthner **Price justification** Prices are based on a distance teams have to travel for the event. **FAQ** * CONTACT: [email protected] * INCLUDED: Overnight stay, dinner and breakfast is included in the sign-up price * ARRIVAL: We suggest arriving around 12pm, Thursday 12th July 2018, dropping your luggage off at YHA Oxford and meeting at the local market (Gloucester Green) for an informal lunch