IGEM China tour 2007

Invitation to PKU 28th Dec, or arrange for us to visit your university

iGEM is the international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition held annually at MIT in the USA, see [http://www.igem2006.com igem2006.com] for more information. We'll be visiting China during December 06 and January 07 to promote the iGEM competition, encourage Chinese teams to take part in 2007 and make contacts with organizations responsible for the development of science and technology in China. We are inviting Chinese faculty, students and organizations interested in iGEM to attend a meeting at Peking University on Thursday December 28th 2006. We are also offering to visit your university or organization to come and talk about iGEM.

iGEM china news

• 06 Dec 3rd - PKU date finalized for Thursday 28th December.

iGEM China Ambassadors [http://biophysics.physics.brown.edu Jay X. Tang], Assistant Professor of Physics and Engineering, Brown University, USA [http://openwetware.org/wiki/John_Cumbers John Cumbers] , Graduate Student in Computational Biology, Brown University, USA [http://2006.igem.org/User:Caiyizhi Patrick Cai (Yizhi)], Graduate Student Synthetic Biology (Jan 07), Virginia Tech, USA

Draft Itinerary Wed Dec 27th Arrive Beijing Thu Dec 28th Peking University meeting 10am - 12pm Fri Dec 29th Beijing (TBC) Sat Dec 30th Beijing Tsinghua (TBC) Sun Dec 31th Mon Jan 1st Shanghai (Hefei-USTC(TBC) / Nanjing (TBC)) Tue Jan 2nd Shanghai (Fudan (TBC) / Jiaotong (TBC)) Wed Jan 3rd Shanghai (TBC) (Jay leaves from beijing 3rd.) Thu Jan 4th HK City University (TBC) Fri Jan 5th HK TBC Sat Jan 6th HK TBC Sun Jan 7th Return Peking University Meeting Thursday December 28th 2006 10am - 12pm iGEM information session Afternoon workshops for visiting faculty and funding agencies Free registration here