Are you joining the UNIL iGEM team 2025?

Do you want to tackle real-world problems? Do you want to do a project from the idea to presenting the results? Do you want to meet and interact with stakeholders, local authorities, media, and other students around the world? Do you want to get hands-on experience in molecular biology, mathematical modelling, software/hardware building, and/or business pitch? Do you want to travel to Paris for free and represent UNIL at an international competition?

If the answer is yes, then join the UNIL iGEM team of 2025! iGEM stands for “International Genetically Engineered Machine”. It is a worldwide synthetic biology competition. Synthetic biology is the engineering of biological systems to solve real-world problems like climate change, environmental pollution, invasive species and disease.

The UNIL team will be composed of 6-15 Bachelor (2nd and 3rd year) and Master MLS students in biology (and potentially other disciplines). No prior knowledge of synthetic biology is required. You need to be highly motivated, take part at the weekly coaching sessions and you are expected to work on the iGEM project during the summer break. Biology students can get up to 7 ECTS credits (other students please contact me). However, please note that the number of ECTS credits and the actual workload are disconnected.

Information session: November 28, 17.15 in POL210.

Students will be selected based on their application file. Fill out the application form (maximum 2 pages in total) and send it (saved as pdf) to yolanda.schaerli at unil.ch. Deadline 10th of January 2025.

iGEM team 2024

A team of 7 UNIL bachelor and master (MLS) biology students took part at the iGEM competition 2024 and went to the Jamboree in Paris to compete with 437 other teams around the world. The fantastic achievements of the team are:

-Winner of a Gold medal

-Nominated for "Best conservation project"

-Nominated for "Best wiki"

-Nominated for "Best presentation"

Check out their wiki page, promotional video, and presentation video.

Check out their wiki page (work in progress)!

iGEM team 2023

A team of 7 UNIL bachelor biology students took part at the iGEM competition 2023 and went to the Jamboree in Paris together with 400 other teams around the world. The fantastic achievements of the team are:

-Winner of a Gold medal

-Nominated for the "Best measurement" in the undergraduate category

Check out their wiki page, promotional video, and presentation video and follow them on instagram and Twitter.

iGEM team 2022

A team of 14 UNIL bachelor biology students took part at the iGEM competition 2022. This year we all went to the Jamboree in Paris. The fantastic achievements of the team are:

-Winner of a Gold medal

-Nominated for the track award for the best Environment project

-Nominated for “Best Wiki”

-Nominated for “Best New Basic Part”

-In the top 10 overgrad teams

Check out their wiki page, promotional video, presentation, and blog, and follow them on instagram and Twitter.

iGEM team 2021

A team of ten UNIL bachelor biology students took part at the iGEM competition 2021. Their fantastic achievements are:

-Winner of a Gold medal

-Winner of the track award for the best Food and Nutrition project

-Nominated for “Best Hardware”

-Nominated for “Best Measurements”

-Nominated for “Best Composite Part”

-Nominated for “Best New Basic Part”

-In the top 10 overgraduate teams

Check out their wiki page, promotional video, presentation, blog and podcasts , and follow them on instagram and Twitter.

iGEM team 2020

A team composed of 12 UNIL students took part at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition 2020. Congratulations to the first UNIL iGEM team! Their fantastic achievements:

-Winner of a Gold medal

-Winner of the "Best Measurement" award

-Nominated for “Best Education”

-Nominated for “Best Composite Part”

-Nominated for “Best Part Collection”

Check out their wiki page, promotional video, poster, presentation, video about women in STEM and follow them on instagram and Twitter.