Recent happenings

It has been an eventful month for the iGEM team. We have been acitvely planning our sponsored walk, which is happening on 10th of July, having a bake sale and setting up other iGEM related activites.

On the sponsored walk, the team will be walking from Leicester to Market Harborough along the canal. The distance of our walk will be nearly 26 miles! To encourage larger donations, we will also accept any reasonable challenges for a donation, for example, walking backwards or doing a team pyramid. So if there is anything funny you'd like to see the team do on the walk, don't hesitate to let us know! 
The walk will also be live-streamed through the blog and twitter and we will even take video evidence!

There have also been exciting things happening to our team on the sponors side. To add to the increasing kindness of our sponsors, Dr. Richard Badge has met up with Mark Shelton of Heathrow Scientific who provided us with a full speed microcentrifuge! And in addition to that, at least £1000 worth of pipettes!!

Speaking of sponors, following our awesome team trip to Jablite/ Styropack, we will very soon have a blog post up talking specifically about the trip, so keep an eye out for that as well!

There is a lot more to update on, and we will have extra information up about our photoshoot and also a team trip to London on the 12th of July very soon!

Update

The photoshoot was a great success and the turnout was great! There will also be a press release to accompany the photo in the coming weeks.

In other news, as exams finish the first week on June, we will be visiting our sponsor Jablite / Styropack on the 6th of June. We will have a tour around the production plant and give a presentation about our project. 

Jablite / Styropack are one of top suppliers in Europe in plastics, especially polystyrene. We are happy to have them supporting us again this year, in our continued quest to try and make polystyrene more environmentally friendly, and in the development of our re-purpose stream for flame retardant polystyrene. 

The next team meeting will be held on the coming Wednesday with more exciting things to be organized. Meanwhile, we will be actively working on putting together our team profile, so that the faces behind the UoL iGEM team will finally be revealed.

Don't forget to also check our Facebook page and Twitter feed (@iGEMLeicester) for more updates on everything UoL iGEM!

iGEM team to be photographed!

Exciting news for the team, as we will have our photo taken with the Vice- Chancellor Professor Sir Robert Burgess.

The 'photoshoot' will take place next week. In addition to the new photo of the team, we will also be getting out team T-shirts by that time, which will also be featured in the photo.

So look out for our team photo introduction in the coming weeks!