Videos/Community Videos

Team Calgary condenses their iGEM experience into an awesome music video (to the tune of Katy Perry's TGIF). Play it while you're working in the lab!

"The Rathenau Instituut organised a Meeting of Young Minds the evening before the Europe Regional Jamboree, in which political youth organisations from the Netherlands and the iGEM participants debated the future of synthetic biology."

"Protocol is about something deep inside our hearts: cloning & transformations. What if I was DNA and able to feel & think?"

"The Johns Hopkins Team have synthetically modified a yeast cell to produce beta carotene. When baked into bread and consumed, it could provide easy access to vitamin A for struggling nations that face malnutrition."

"Team SYSU-China designed a video to introduce their project!"

"Team Nevada organized a concert fundraiser at the University of Nevada!"

"Imperial College London made this video to introduce members of their 2011 iGEM team!"

"The Penn State team developed a video that explains synthetic biology in an understandable way for any general audience."

"Team UNAM-Genomics Mexico made a video which depicts one of the central ideas of their Human Practice project. "

"UNICAMP-EMSE Brazil team students prepared a video class to disseminate Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology using easy and simple language."

"Researchers and industry reps from across Alberta’s innovation system gathered in Banff, AB for a summit about how they are facing challenges in bringing their technology from the lab to market. Meet a few of those attending and what they had to say."

"The Team Bielefeld-Germany introduces themselves as the 'The Bisphenol A-Team'."

"This is a stop motion / clay animation video introducing to the world of synthetic biology within the context of the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) 2011."

"A video presenting our project this year : building a biofilter using adherent bacteria to capture cobalt from radioactive effluents"

"Introduction in a funny way of our team, our project and at the same time of the main principles of the iGEM competition."

"An innovative synthetic biome in which bacteria and eukaryotic cells need each other to survive."

"iGEM Factory is a video for showing what UANL_Mty-Mexico team does at lab."

"We are in the process of transforming the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans into a soil bioremediation toolkit with a specific focus on naphthalene."

Check out the 2011 Colombia Team's project: "How the E. coli will destroy all phytopathogens!"

Check out the 2011 Freiburg Team's Lab in a Cell project: "to transform protein expression in bacterial systems into an elegant, fast and affordable process."

For the human practices section of their project, the 2010 EPF_Lausanne Team created a movie to help a wider audience better understand synthetic biology.

The Cambridge 2010 team serenade us with the benefits of Gibson Assembly

BioBuilder® is an open-access website offering informative animations and activities for anyone who wants to teach or learn about synthetic biology.