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• Jamboree

o Map o Schedule

iGEM 2013 Regional Jamboree for Latin America
October 4 – 6, 2013

Universidad Mayor, Campus Huechuraba

Friday 4

6:00 - 9:00 PM	Practice Sessions
10:00PM	Pizza Time! - Judges Dinner

Saturday 5

8:00AM	Registration / Breakfast
9:00AM	Welcome Show
9:30AM	Opening Remarks
10:00AM	Session 1	BIOSINT Mexico
10:30AM		TecMonterrey
11:00AM		UFMG Brazil
11:30AM	Break
12:00PM	Session 2	Ciencias-UNAM
12:30AM		Manaus Amazonas-Brazil
1:00PM		UANL Mty-Mexico
1:30PM	Lunch
2:30PM	Session 3	UC Chile
3:00PM		USP-Brazil
3:30PM		Buenos Aires
4:00PM
4:30PM	Session 4	Colombia Uniandes
5:00PM		Costa Rica Cibus
5:30PM		Guadalajara
6:00PM	Poster Reception
7:00PM	Transfer to Hotel
8:00PM	Dinner
9:30PM	Social Event

Sunday 6

9:00AM	Breakfast
9:30AM	Opening Remarks
10:00AM	Finalist 1
10:30AM	Finalist 2
11:00AM	Break
11:30AM	Finalist 3
12:00PM	Finalist 4
12:30PM	iGEM from Above (judges deliberate)
1:00PM	Awards
1:30PM	Lunch

Key:	Food & Energy	Health & Medicine	Software
	Enviroment	Manufacturing	Information Processing
	Fopundational Advance	New Application

A copy of the schedule will be in your registration packet.
See you all on Friday!

• Transportation

Don’t worry!!! We have several buses to transport you, from the hotel to the Jamboree and to the other activities! Soon we are going to give you all the information about how to get from the Airport to your Hotel!

• Accomodation

We have and special treatment in Hotel Neruda http://www.hotelneruda.cl/ . If you have any question, just contact Katina Polanco, ventas3@hotelneruda.cl, she´s our executive, specially for us.

TARIFAS HOTEL NERUDA****		INCLUDE
1 K Bed	US$ 164	Buffet breakfast
1 K Bed // 2 K Bed	US$ 198	Wi-Fi
1 Q Bed	US$ 132	Parking
1 Q Bed	US$ 154	Temperate pool and gym
3 Q Bed	US$ 198

TARIFAS APART HOTEL NERUDA		INCLUDE
		Buffet breakfast
Single	US$ 95	Wi-Fi
Matrimonial // Twin	US$ 112	Parking
Superior	US$ 112	Temperate pool and gym

• Tips

We recommended use the official transport offered by the Santiago airport.

http://www.aeropuertosantiago.cl/english/medios-de-transporte-desde-y-hacia-scl/medios-de-transporte-desde-y-hacia-scl.html

• Universidad Mayor

Camino La Pirámide N°5750, Huechuraba

Huechuraba Campus of the U. Mayor has 50,500 m2 of surface. It houses 18 undergraduate members of the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Forestry and Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Art and Technology Studies, and Institute of Communication and New Technologies.

The modern infrastructure is surrounded by a natural environment with 20,000 m2 of green areas and close to Parque Metropolitano.

This campus is located research centers for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Plant Propagation and Conservation, Ecotoxicological Research, Natural Resource Studies, Beekeeping and Human Movement Studies. It has two auditoriums, a library with over 34,000 volumes.