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Distribution Kits
2021 Updates on Distribution Kits
We’re excited to announce that we will be able so ship out Distribution Kits this year! While all of our staff is continuing to work remotely due to the impact of COVID-19, our staff in Boston is in the process of getting vaccinated so that they may work together to prepare the Distribution Kit shipments to our teams!
This year’s Distribution Kit will be a bit more limited due to manufacturing time, but we’ll be shipping out:
- 2021 pins & stickers
- 6 384-well kit plates
- Welcome material
We hope to begin shipping Distribution Kits by the end of June! We ask for your patience as we navigate both COVID safety concerns for our personnel and shipping logistics.
We strongly encourage teams to use the synthesis offers through our Partner Sponsors (URL: https://2021.igem.org/Sponsors/Special_Offers). We will send out updates on this process through our Newsletters and will post updates on this page.
Lastly, we know that many of you will also not have lab access, or your lab schedules and lab mentorship will be greatly reduced. Just as last year, we've ensured that this iGEM year is flexible and open, and this includes ensuring that lab work and samples from the Distribution Kit will not be a barrier to any medal criteria.
iGEM Distribution Beyond 2022
For 2022 and beyond we will be making a second-generation iGEM Distribution, designed anew and completely rebuilt using synthesis! Doing so will enable us to make iGEM parts freely available for use and reuse, including beyond the competition itself*.
Doing so will ALSO enable the iGEM community to make a world-best biotechnology toolkit supporting distributed education and innovation, so that everyone everywhere has a chance to learn to solve problems locally, contributing and participating as citizens of a 21st biocentury.
However, to do a good job we need your help!
We are asking you, our iGEM teams and community, to tell us what you really think about the existing or previous Distributions, and what you wish to be true about the iGEM Distribution 2.0. To help us, please complete the survey linked below!
* iGEM is partnering with the BioBricks Foundation’s Free Genes project to coordinate the design and construction of all materials going into the iGEM Distribution 2.0. Doing so will ensure that all parts will be newly synthesized and provided free-and-clear of property-rights encumbrances. The entire distribution will be made available via the Unilateral OpenMTA, a materials transfer agreement that enables free use and sharing of so-provided samples.
iGEM Foundation
The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology, education and competition, and the development of an open community and collaboration. Visit us at igem.org
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