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<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">What would you do if you could </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">program
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<font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Join the MIT 2013 iGEM team and make it happen!</span></font></div>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font face="Arial">Ever wonder if you could engineer cells to do whatever you wanted? Produce concrete? Filter water? Diagnose diseases or sense explosives? Calculate the square root of the
number of its neighbours or solve a sudoku?</font><br>
<font face="Arial">Synthetic biology provides a unique opportunity to combine knowledge from electrical engineering, biological</font><font style="font-family:Arial"> e</font><font face="Arial">ngineering, chemical engineering, computer science and biology
to create novel biological systems.</font></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><font><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">INFO SESSIONS:</span></font></div>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">All backgrounds and majors welcome and no prior experience necessary</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">.</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"> We
are looking to create a team of motivated students excited about engineering biology to compete in the iGEM competition for the summer of 2013. Stipend is the summer UROP maximum.</span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">The </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://igem.org/">International Genetically Engineered
Machine</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><font face="Arial"><a href="http://igem.org/"> competition (iGEM)</a> is the premier undergraduate Synthetic Biology competition. </font><font face="Arial">MIT's 2010 iGEM
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<div><font><font face="Arial">Find out more at our information sessions and at</font><font face="Arial"> </font><a href="http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:none">http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013</a><font face="Arial">.</font></font></div>
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<div><font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;text-align:center">Send all questions to </span><a href="mailto:igem-2013-applications@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;text-align:center">igem-2013-applications@mit.edu</a><font face="Arial"><br>
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