Welcome to the community page for Asia & Oceania! Here you’ll find iGEM programs focused towards Asia & Oceania such as your regional iGEM Ambassadors and iGEM League, projects and resources built by the regional iGEM community to support synthetic biology in the region, and the latest news, events and updates from the local synthetic biology community.
iGEM Leagues
News & Blogs From The Region
Resources for iGEM Competition Teams - Chinese Translation
Resources for iGEM Competition Teams - Japanese Translation
Synthite to set up Centre for Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology at Cochin Univeristy
Science Research and Communication: Deborah Chandra’s Story
Resilience and Learning Beyond Academic Research: Ari’s Story
From iGEM to Research and Development in Food Industry: Nathan Hawkins
Sheena Chan: Stories and Lesson From iGEM Competition and a PhD Journey
Greta Holland: From a Master's in Biology to a Career in Venture Capital
Suhasini Iyer: iGEM Led Me to Synthetic Biology
The Ins and Outs of Paper Submission and Publication
The Art of Data Visualization: Extracting Meaning From Insights
Building the first iGEM Gifu Team in Japan: Lessons from 2014
Regional Events
JANUARY 27, 2025
iGEM at 3rd Bioengineering Day
JANUARY 11, 2025
iGEM at India Science Festival 2025
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
iGEM at Biospectrum 2024
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
iGEM at Delhi Public School
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
iGEM at 34th Annual Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting
AUGUST 23, 2024
iGEM at Japan Meetup 2024
JULY 29, 2024
iGEM at Australia & New Zealand iGEM Regional Meetup 2024
JULY 26, 2024
iGEM at All iGEM India Meet 2024
JULY 12, 2024
iGEM at 11th CCiC SynBio Nexus
JULY 1, 2024
iGEM Pathways: SynBio for the future in Bangladesh
APRIL 18, 2024
iGEM Information Session New Zealand
MARCH 11, 2024
iGEM at Life Sciences Summit
MARCH 9, 2024
iGEM Japan Meetup 2024
DECEMBER 6, 2023
iGEM at 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan 2023
OCTOBER 16, 2023
iGEM at SynBio NZ Symposium
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
iGEM at Australasian SynBio Competition
AUGUST 5, 2023
iGEM at Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference 2023
JULY 27, 2023
iGEM at All iGEM India Meet 2023
JUNE 6, 2023
iGEM at Digital Health Festival
AUGUST 22, 2022
iGEM at Taiwan iGEM Meet 2022
JULY 22, 2022
iGEM at All iGEM India Meet 2022
OCTOBER 25, 2021
iGEM at the 2021 Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Synthetic Biology
APRIL 1, 2019
Promoting Synthetic Biology in Thailand
AUGUST 25, 2018
1st Southern China iGEM Community Reception
iGEM Ambassadors & Promoters for Asia & Oceania
Over 1400 teams from more than 20 different countries and states have participated in the iGEM Competition. With the past decade seeing a surge in startups and the development of governmental synthetic biology agendas, the field is rapidly advancing in the region.
The iGEM Ambassadors for Asia & Oceania support all the iGEMers from the region, help build new iGEM teams, support you with resources from iGEM, and connect the local community together.
Contact
- Connect with our global community on the iGEM Community Slack. Join the iGEM Community Slack ↗
- Reach out to your regional Ambassadors & Promoters via asia@igem.org
- Book a meeting ↗ with your ambassadors
2025 iGEM Ambassadors & Promoters for Asia & Oceania
Fatma Alrebh
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Dubai, UAE
Quratulain Danish
Promoter - Asia & Oceania
Peshawar, Pakistan
Toby Liao
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Taipei, Taiwan
Christian Nelson Tejedor Vicera
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anel Umirbaeva
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Astana, Kazakhstan
Usrat Nubah
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Manchester, United Kingdom
Deepali Vengala
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Hyderabad, India
Jingyang Chen
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Beijing, China
Ava Hongying Zeng
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Wuhan, China
Ruchika Prakash Tekethotil
Promoter - Asia & Oceania
Pune, India
Xiaohan Zhang
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Suzhou, China
Amelia Wei
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Shenzhen, China
Aniket Sabar
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Kolkata, India
Zixi Li
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Zhuhai, China
Dana Khairetdinova
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Astana, Kazakhstan
Betty Zhang
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Melbourne, Australia
Abrar Hasan
Promoter - Asia & Oceania, Project Member
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Anna Donnan
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania
Christchurch, New Zealand
Hana Lukman
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania, Project Member
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Sasha Thomas
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania, Project Head/Member
Stockholm, Sweden
Srimathi L.
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania, Project Member
London, United Kingdom
Muskaan Puri
Ambassador - Asia & Oceania, Project Head
Calgary, Canada