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Synthetase: Bringing SynBio to students in India

Students are not exposed to application-based perspectives until later in their careers. In awareness of this deficit, the iGEM Indian League designed the upcoming High School Workshop, "Synthetase: Synthesize your SynBio Journey" with the goal of providing the principles and skills that future young scientists will need to lay the groundwork and motivate them to pursue careers in this field.

iGEM Indian League: Reimagining the landscape of Synthetic Biology in India

When you think of India, what comes to mind? Teams from India have a long history of participating in iGEM, known by most as the premier international synthetic biology competition, and the organization that helped to establish the synthetic biology industry. When you think of India, we invite you to think of local people solving local problems throughout every region of India using the tools of synthetic biology. That is the vision of iGEM Indian League.

Synthetic Biology in India

Biotechnology is currently one of the fastest growing industries in India with a massive boom in the past 5 years. But while a lot of biotech infrastructure and resources exist in the country and technological advances have allowed the cost of sequencing and DNA synthesis to drop, this was not directed towards Synthetic Biology.

Building and growing synthetic biology ecosystems around the world with iGEM Leagues

We asked iGEMers in different places around the world about the challenges they are facing when it comes to building their local synthetic biology ecosystems and advancing the engineering progress of biology. We learned that specific challenges vary not just between global regions, but between countries and localities as well. In keeping with iGEM’s new purpose of making sure that the field of synthetic biology, and all of the power that this technology holds, gets developed everywhere by everyone, we are developing the iGEM Leagues.

Looking ahead at 2022


Now more than ever the world needs synthetic biologists – talented and passionate people who are building a better world by engineering biology. iGEM is known by most as the premier international synthetic biology competition, and the organization that helped to establish the synthetic biology industry. But in 2022, iGEM has grown to be so much more than just the competition.