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<div style="text-align:center">What would you do if you could <b>program life</b>?<br>
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<div style="text-align:center"><i>Join the MIT 2013 iGEM team and make it happen!<br>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>Apply at <a href="http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013" target="_blank">
http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013</a> before Friday midnight!</b><br>
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All backgrounds and majors welcome to apply and no prior experience necessary.</b></i><br>
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Ever wonder if you could engineer living cells to do whatever you wanted? Produce concrete? Filter water? Diagnose diseases or sense explosives? Solve a sudoku or form a pattern?<br>
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Synthetic biology provides a unique opportunity to combine knowledge from electrical engineering, biological engineering, chemical engineering, computer science and biology to create novel biological systems with the potential to do whatever you imagine.<br>
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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. The
<a href="http://igem.org/" target="_blank">The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (<b>iGEM</b>)</a> is the premier undergraduate synthetic biology competition with hundreds of teams joining in every year -- be a member of MIT's team and
lead it to victory!<br>
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The stipend for being in the team is the summer UROP maximum.<br>
The team will start brainstorming a project during the spring semester, while at the same time getting wetlab experience as UROPs.<br>
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<div>The iGEM is experience is a lot of fun -- you get to define your own project, actually do the science and engineering, and present these results to fellow undergrads as well as professors from around the world at the iGEM jamborees!<br>
Your learn skills that will help you later in life, whether this be lab skills for graduate school or learning how to see a project through for the industry.<br>
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<b>Apply at <a href="http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013" target="_blank">http://tiny.cc/MITiGEM2013</a> before Friday midnight!</b><br>
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Send all questions to <a href="mailto:igem-2013-applications@mit.edu" target="_blank">
igem-2013-applications@mit.edu</a><br>
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