Join the 2015 Bay Area DIY Bio iGEM team!

[Maria Chavez]

Hi All,

I am excited to announce we are officially starting to form the 2015 iGEM* team.

After talking to each of the local labs we've decided to share resources and form another joint team. 

If you haven't heard last year's team was a joint venture between BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs, Real Vegan Cheese.  They won a Gold Medal and Best Community Lab Project.  The praise and continued press coverage for Real Vegan Cheese gives us a lot to live up to and I am excited to help lead the way.

To join us please fill out this form:

http://goo.gl/forms/27pBbhq0nB  

We will be having meetings at each:

- BioCurious in Sunnyvale

- Berkeley Bio Labs in Berkeley

- Counter Culture Labs in Oakland

The lab work will be split between the three labs and we will rotate where the official meeting is, using web-conferencing to allow all the labs to attend each meeting and collaborate.  

The two immediate issues are submitting our registration form and fee.  The 2015 fee is $4,000 and we must register and pay before March 31, 2015 to avoid a $500 USD late fee.  We will need to have a discussion and decision how to fund this project. 

I have already started gathering project ideas but I can't wait to see what out of the box thinking everyone can come up with.  

Please fill out the form and I will let people know when the first meetings will be scheduled. 

I am very excited to see what project we will tackle this year!

Maria Chavez

Class Manager

BioCurious

*iGEM is the Internationally Genetically Engineering Machine Competition, which now has a Community Lab tract.  www.iGem.org