International Genetically Engineered Machines Team at the University of Virginia

Club Description

iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine, and is an annual ~9 month long science and engineering organization and competition for Undergraduates, Overgraduates and a few Highschool teams.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------iGEM serves a dual role of promoting synthetic biology among students, as well as creating a conference for the presentation of novel technologies in the field of synthetic biology. As of 2018, iGEM consisted of 340 teams with 5790 total participants, not including staff, sponsors and visitors, spanning 42 different countries.Virginia iGEM has been one of these teams from 2007 to present day; we have won gold medals, multiple best-of-competition nominations and prizes, and we get better and better every year.