iGEM McMaster
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iGEM McMaster's Bioinformatics Team is now recruiting! Learn more and apply at https://forms.gle/djrHF8Z2ZDz6J1h87. Applications have now closed. Thank you for your interest! We look forward to reading your applications. Write to us at [email protected] if you have questions or comments.... Wet lab and Human Practices team applications will be out soon so keep an eye out for those!

What is antimicrobial resistance? What makes it such a serious threat to global public health? How can we take action to prevent, limit, and control the emergence and spread of AMR? iGEM McMaster will be hosting Dr. Andrew McArthur on September 28th at 5pm for an exploration into antimicrobial resistance! We'll be exploring the causes of antimicrobial resistance, the various strategies currently used to tackle AMR and the challenges associated with AMR research.... Register at bit.ly/AMR2020mGEM !

Interested in how to stop the next pandemic? Learning about synthetically engineered pathogens and biosecurity? iGEM McMaster and McMaster Effective Altruism will be hosting Chris Bakerlee on July 3rd for a conversation about mitigating both naturally occurring and synthetically engineered biological threats. Chris is pursuing a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. The session’s facilitator, Chris Bakerlee, is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard University'...s Molecular and Cellular Biology department, where he uses genetic engineering to study how evolution works. Chris is also a 2020 Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellow at the John Hopkins University, and led the 2019-2020 Emerging Tech Policy Network at Harvard's Kennedy School. He is particularly interested in pandemic risk mitigation, exploring interventions from both the policy, science, and technology perspectives. If you want to explore the topic, Chris has written an article about biorisk: Designer bugs: How the next pandemic might come from a lab: https://www.vox.com//superbugs-biotech-pathogens-biorisk-p We’d love to see you there! Registration Link: https://forms.gle/ZZCRDQB4WYVx97fX7

Here's some wholesome content from our iGEM meeting today! Our sub teams are working away at our new project this year. Hope everyone is keeping safe and practicing social distancing! P.S. This was supposed to be a heart :)