Latin America/IGEMCompetitionJamboree

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• Jamboree

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.