The Preliminary Contest of iGEM in SCUT was held in July. Three teams in SCUT and six assessment experts who come from South China Normal University, South China Agricultural University and SunYat-sen University got together in B6-303. After the fantastic presentation by three teams and the discussion by six experts, they finally decided two teams to participate the final competition which will be held in September in Massachu-setts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is a worldwide synthetic biology competition that was initially aimed at undergraduate university students, but has since expanded to include divisions for high school students, entrepreneurs, and community laboratories, as well as “over graduates”.

Teams from School of Bioscience and Bioengineering did outstanding performances both in games that were hold in 2013 and 2014. We hope that these two teams will perform better this year.