About

Despite having to keep the distance, we made amazing efforts to have our community grow and together, strengthen iGEM and SynBio in the Latin American region. Through this virtual meetup, organized by the LATAM Ambassadors, we made sure to provide the perfect combination of networking, learning and fun.

  • Present and obtain feedback for your project
  • Network with other latinos and latinas
  • Celebrate and get to know better the latin culture
  • Improve your soft and hard skills
  • Build long-term relationships with other fellows from the region

Activities

Catch-Up - How is your iGEM project doing?

This space will allow you and your team to share the progress of your project and get prepared for the final version of your presentation. Your team will have the chance to present your progress to a panel made up by PIs, judges, advisors and specialists, who will be glad to help you out.

Latin Cinema

When visiting a new country, what better way than to have a local person showing you all the wonders of their country. Together we will create and share short movies by country, featuring interesting aspects of our culture like foods, traditions, idioms, tourist attractions, music, and festivities that will help to discover our region even better.

The iGEM effect - Storytelling

Every iGEM alumni has a story to tell (good or bad)! Join this space to share yours and hear how the anecdotes of other iGEMERs ended in good stories or failures (but learnings) during their participation in the competition.

LATAM party

Are you ready to show if you really know your Latin American community? Show your knowledge at the Latin Party that we have prepared as part of the closing activities of the LATAM MeetUp. Prepare your team and take one of the surprises we have (as a hint, you can show it off on your Wiki)

Workshop 1: Acing the Wiki

Get your Wiki to the next level by having the opportunity to get some hands on with the help of an iGEMER that went through the same thing that you will go through.

Workshop 2: Design for non-designers

Aren’t you a design expert? Don’t you worry! And even if you are, we know how difficult it could be to design the visual identity of a scientific project.