St. Mark's School of Texas Biology Club & IGEM Team

St. Mark's School of Texas Biology Club & IGEM Team The first iGEM high school team from the state of Texas, the St. This allows us to work more efficiently and cohesively.

Mark’s iGEM Team was established as part of a Biotechnology Initiative begun in September of 2013 by our school’s Biology Club. This Initiative, spurred on by iGEM, revitalized our Club and helped generate significant interest in synthetic biology from the student body, faculty, and school administration. In our first year we achieved regular access to a radiation oncology lab at the University of

Texas Southwestern Medical Center, $1500 in funding from the school to cover the registration fee for the iGEM Competition, exclusive laboratory space at the school, and a more than four-fold increase in membership of the Biology Club to twenty-two members. Our iGEM Team blends the setup of a traditional club with the highly efficient structure of a professional research laboratory. The Team is divided into four Committees: Fundamental Research, Applied Research, Outreach, and Web Development. We have had to lay the foundation of our iGEM Team this year by informing the school community on synthetic biology, seeking financial support, and establishing laboratory resources for our project. But it was our infectious enthusiasm and indefatigable determination for synthetic biology that allowed us to overcome administrative hurdles and a steep learning curve. Through our journey this year, we have proven that a school with limited resources in biotechnology can make significant strides, effectively pioneer investigations in the field, and shown our community the tremendous potential we have in the future.

Our feature film, Inspiring Tomorrow.Discover how the St. Mark's School of Texas International Genetically Engineered Ma...
06/30/2014

Our feature film, Inspiring Tomorrow.

Discover how the St. Mark's School of Texas International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team is impacting the world today. Through an integration of disciplines, the Team strives to advance humanity through the pursuit of innovative and original research while directly engaging with our community through programs such as the Brendan Court Enrichment Program and the Jubilee Community Center for inner-city students. The Team is committed to inspiring students to become passionate scientists and good leaders in tomorrow's world.

See how the Team is revolutionizing the path of future St. Mark's School of Texas Marksmen through increased independent research on campus. Our long-term project involves the creation of a potential noninvasive, sensitive, and inexpensive screening system for lung cancer.

Inspiring Tomorrow was directed by Halbert Bai. The original score was composed by Chirag Gokani. The film includes interviews from Luke Williams, Tim O'Meara, Mark Adame, Killian Green, Rohin Maganti, Raymond Guo, Rohan Pinto, Ali Ahmed, Akshay Malhotra, Kevin Wu, Jonathan Ng, Shaheer Khan, Jeffrey Wu, Vikrant Reddy, Abhi Thummala, Vishal Gokani, and Halbert Bai.

Director: Halbert Bai
Composer & Sound Designer: Chirag Gokani
Producers: Vishal Gokani, Rohin Maganti
Screenwriters: Halbert Bai, Vishal Gokani
Editor & Visual Effects Artist: Kunal Dixit
Animator & Graphics Artist: Killian Green
Director of Photography: Halbert Bai
Assistant Directors of Photography: Tim O'Meara, Kunal Dixit
Aerial Camera Operator: Shailen Pramar
Assistant Editors: Vishal Gokani, Rohin Maganti, Halbert Bai, Shaheer Khan, Vikrant Reddy, Chirag Gokani, Killian Green, Jack Gordon
Interviews: Luke Williams, Tim O'Meara, Mark Adame, Killian Green, Rohin Maganti, Raymond Guo, Rohan Pinto, Ali Ahmed, Akshay Malhotra, Kevin Wu, Jonathan Ng, Shaheer Khan, Jeffrey Wu, Vikrant Reddy, Abhi Thummala, Vishal Gokani, Halbert Bai
Content Attributions: BBC, USA Today, James Hutson
Special Thanks: Mark Adame, Douglas Rummel, Kenneth Owens, Kitwa Ng, Fletcher Carron, David Dini, M. Redwine, Cole Gerthoffer, Jennifer Gilbert, Scott Hunt
Sponsors: BioBasic, New England BioLabs, Bio-Rad
http://youtu.be/Ji7MGJNIAUA

Discover how the St. Mark's School of Texas Internationally Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Team is impacting the world today. Through an integration ...

06/30/2014
Scientists have fun too!
06/30/2014

Scientists have fun too!

The St. Mark’s iGEM Team is committed to serving the community through innovative research and engaging outreach. Our mi...
06/29/2014

The St. Mark’s iGEM Team is committed to serving the community through innovative research and engaging outreach. Our mission is in line with that of iGEM’s by promoting and fostering scientific research in our school and beyond. We strive to engage with social, cultural, ethical, philosophical, environmental, political, legal, and economic dimensions of synthetic biology. In our first year, we developed comics that would integrate synthetic biology concepts into the plot and artwork to bring youth awareness to our Biotechnology Initiative, created engaging YouTube biotechnology tutorial videos as we strove to give a global online audience access to quality instructional resources in synthetic biology, launched our school’s greatest social media campaign through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, and created a professional film to showcase our Biotechnology Initiative.

The public release of our film is set for 6.30.14. Get ready to help us Inspire Tomorrow!
06/28/2014

The public release of our film is set for 6.30.14. Get ready to help us Inspire Tomorrow!

Our film Inspiring Tomorrow is coming soon!
06/27/2014

Our film Inspiring Tomorrow is coming soon!

In anticipation for our feature film, watch "Our Mission" starring Luke Williams, Jonathan Ng, Jeffrey Wu, Rohin Maganti...
06/27/2014

In anticipation for our feature film, watch "Our Mission" starring Luke Williams, Jonathan Ng, Jeffrey Wu, Rohin Maganti, Shaheer Khan, and Tim O'Meara.

http://youtu.be/u0Fh7PG5zFo

To improve the community by pioneering investigations into bio-technology by solving real-world problems in order to promote scientific inquiry and educate t...

A short film about who we serve, "You." Conceptualized and designed by Killian Green. Animated partially by Rohin Magant...
06/26/2014

A short film about who we serve, "You." Conceptualized and designed by Killian Green. Animated partially by Rohin Maganti.

Our highly anticipated feature film is coming soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJOioevedY

St. Mark's School of Texas Biology Club & iGEM Team Biotechnology Initiative You A film conceptualized, created, and designed by Killian Green. Animated part...

06/19/2014

To follow our progress and learn more about our research endeavors, please visit bit.ly/smbiotech!

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