iGEM Thessaly: The research team from the University of Thessaly organized the First Meet Up of all the Greek iGEM teams at the city of Larissa on Saturday 13 July. 



The students of the iGEM Thessaly team conducted from 12 to 14 of July a meeting with the Greek teams iGEM Athens and Thessaloniki that are also taking part in the iGEM competition this year at the city of Larissa, Thessaly. 

iGEM is an international completion taking place in Boston on October. It started in 2004 at MIT with only a few teams participating, exclusively from the United States. Today, there are more than 300 teams competing from all over the world. 

One of iGEM’s main goals is to promote collaboration among the iGEM teams and, as an extension, to society. In this context, iGEM Thessaly hosted the First Greek Meet Up and invited iGEM Athens and Thessaloniki to Larissa. The aim of this meet-up was for every team to present their project to the rest and receive useful feedback, comments, and ideas. The conference that was held on Saturday 13th of July.Apart from the teams’ presentations, an iGEM Alumni panel (consisting of exceptional guests with great experience in the iGEM competition) initiated  a constructive discussion with and filled a lot of gaps for the students that are making their first attempt to participate in something this big. 

The conference was enriched by interesting talks by postdoctoral researchers of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. The invited speakers  were Constantine Garagounis, from the Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, and Konstantina Tsoumani , from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Genomics., We were also happy to host the coordinator of Academia and Research Committee of After iGEM Thea Chrysostomou, the iGEM Sheffield supervisor Dimitris Michailidis, and Giannis Ntekas, iGEM Athens 2018 team leader. Finally,  it was a great honor that our PI Papadopoulou Kalliope, who has been supporting as from the beginning, attended our meet up. 

We wish good luck to all the Greek iGEM teams! 

iGEM Thessaly’s research project is being supported by the research infrastructure Omic- Engine, States Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ), Research Committee of the University of Thessaly, Hellenic Petroleum, and ELPEN. 

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