UoLeicester iGEM in partnership with GENIE

As you have probably seen on the side and at the bottom of our blog, we are now working in partnership with the University of Leicester's Genetics Education Networking for Innovation & Excellence (GENIE http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/genie/about), the UK's only Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Genetics. This development was announced on their news page at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/genie/news ,  giving a great opportunity for our project to gain valuable support and exposure through GENIEs outreach program; but also for GENIE to use the awesome ideas of iGEM to promote interest in genetics research amongst school children, students and the general public.

More updates on the sponsored walk to follow shortly, as well as news of our next event which is likely to be a Citizen Science Experiment, with details and how to get involved to be available soon  - Watch This Space - 

Christopher Morton - Project leader  

After the walk,

This is only a quick update, however we will be updating on the walk soon.

The sponsored walk was a success! After a total of around £650 pledged (still climbing as totals come in) we aimed to set off at around 9am from the Adrian building on the University of Leicester Campus and walk towards the river soar and on wards to Loughborough. There we're a few hiccups along the way which we will tell all about when the photos go up, but other than that it was a great day! Weather held out, and a good 99% of all challenges we're completed. Also a massive thank you from all of the team to everyone for every single penny sponsored

Christopher Morton - project leader 

Sponsored walk update - two days to go!

Just a quick update on our sponsored walk - we currently have about £300 pledged for the walk (which will get us as far as Barrow, and isn't far from our next target of £400 to get us to Loughborough). To claim all of this, we have to not only walk twelve miles, but our great leader Chris has to carry one of us some distance, we will be doing a "Ministry of Silly Walks" race, and I myself must spend about a mile of it in morphsuit and Stetson. I believe Will is also doing the walk in a lycra all-in-one from his rowing club, although I am not sure whether this is because of a donation or due to personal preference.

Also, we shall all be donning our beautiful new t-shirts for the event! After much debate, we finally agreed on a logo and a design that we all liked, and the t-shirts arrived today. Here's a picture of Luke wearing his...

More to come.

Anthony Cox, Vice Project Leader.