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The evolution of synthetic biology: a fireside chat with IDT experts

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)

In the last few decades, synthetic biology has emerged making great strides in genomics, understanding evolution, and systems biology. In this workshop, join IDT’s Director of Innovation Adam Clore and Director of Business Development Tom Speedy as they discuss the progress of synthetic biology, where it is today, and what sustainable biological solutions continue to emerge and impact our lives.

Tuesday, November 17 3:15PM EST

Improved methods for CRISPR HDR using Alt-R modified dsDNA donors and Alt-R HDR Enhancer

Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT)

CRISPR-based homology-directed repair (HDR) is an invaluable tool for researchers looking to make precise, specific mutations in a genomic region of interest. Unfortunately, HDR is a challenge for many as efficiency is often low. HDR repair outcomes with CRISPR/Cas systems are most efficient with single-stranded DNA templates when small insertions, deletions, or SNP changes are desired edits. Here, we present work demonstrating that improved efficiency in HDR rates for large insertions is obtained. Learn how IDT’s Alt-R modified dsDNA donor templates and the Alt-R HDR Enhancer V2 allows researchers to maximize HDR rates for their large knock-in experiments.

Wednesday, November 18 2:00PM EST

Ginkgo Bioworks Challenge: How to make biology easier to engineer?

Ginkgo Bioworks

Biology is the best manufacturing platform on the planet. But engineering living cells is hard—evolution is four billion years ahead of us. We want to hear from you: How can we make biology easier to engineer? Submit your team’s idea and selected teams will pitch to a panel of Ginkgo Bioworks judges (and SynBio rockstars!): Christina Agapakis, Patrick Boyle, and Tom Knight! Impress the judges and the audience to win Ginkgo’s prize: DNA synthesis as Twist plasmids and Ginkgo mentorship to make your idea a reality. Join us, and let’s make biology easier and funnier to engineer together. Apply here!

Wednesday, November 18 11:00AM EST

Designing with Biology: Fireside Chat with Ginkgo’s Creative Team

Ginkgo Bioworks

What if we could grow everything? What does designing with biology really mean? In this talk, Grace Chuang from Ginkgo’s Creative Team shares how navigating the intersections of art, science, society, and identity can help us to envision the future of synthetic biology, and how you can be a part of it too.

Thursday, November 19 2:00PM EST

CRISPR: a powerful, yet accessible gene editing tool for any research application

GenScript

Join us in listening to James Chon, Field Application Scientist at GenScript, about how CRISPR can benefit your research and some of its cutting-edge applications.

Tuesday, November 17 3:15PM EST

Interview Reunion

GenScript

Join us as we reunite with our Interviewed teams for a Trivia Night! We will be hosting a GenScript/MolecularCloud Interview Reunion. Our interviewees will join us once again to play some Trivia and catch up with the teams!

Wednesday, November 18 3:15PM EST

Exploring the COVID-19 genome and PCR diagnostics with Benchling

Benchling

Benchling is a data-management platform built to help scientists design sequences, record notes and datasets, and collaborate on experiments. Rather than spend time using different software tools, paper notebooks, or spreadsheets, iGEMmers using Benchling can spend time focusing on what they care about: synthetic biology. In this interactive workshop,we will introduce how to use Benchling through a fun guided activity exploring the COVID-19 genome and visualize how PCR is used to detect the virus. Attendees can enter into a raffle afterwards to win a Benchling t-shirt!

Tuesday, November 17 2:00PM EST

How iGEM teams are using SnapGene and Geneious

SnapGene | Geneious

Join us as we introduce you to SnapGene and Geneious’s core features and how other iGEM teams are using them to create successful experiments. In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate the best ways to plan, visualize and document molecular biology procedures with SnapGene and unlock the value of your sequence data with Geneious.

Tuesday, November 17 9:00AM EST
re-stream Wednesday, November 18 10:00AM EST

Informatics tools and NEB enzymes to enable one-pot Golden Gate Assemblies of unprecedented complexity​

New England Biolabs (NEB)

Accelerate your Design-Build-Test cycle with Golden Gate Assembly (GGA) reagents and informatics design tools from NEB! Recent advances in understanding the fidelity, bias, and efficiency of fragment assembly in GGA now allow for assemblies of unprecedented complexity and target size in one pot – over 50 fragments, with assemblies of up to 40kB demonstrated. Data-optimized Assembly Design (DAD) using informatics tools with NEB enzymes, kits and workflows allow rapid and accurate production of large targets from many fragments with minimal screening of products required. Join NEB scientists for a discussion of the latest innovations in DNA assembly.

Thursday, November 19 10:30AM EST
re-stream Friday, November 20 2:00PM EST

Long term lab sustainability in science with My Green Lab

Promega

Lab sustainability is increasingly important to the scientific community and iGEMers. Join Promega Corporation as we welcome Ritika Singh from our partner My Green Lab to talk about lab sustainbility, My Green Lab product and lab certification programs and challenge contests, and the new My Green Lab Ambassador program. Bring your sustainbility questions and be ready for an energetic discussion.

Tuesday, November 17 10:00AM EST
Thursday, November 19 3:00PM EST