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<h1id="UFMG's Synthetic Biology Club"style="padding-top:30px;"> UFMG's Synthetic Biology Club </h1>
<h2> History </h2>
<p>In January 2020, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) hosted the Jamboree Brazuca,
an event that
gathered most Brazilian iGEM teams to discuss their previous projects and bring new
perspectives in
Synthetic Biology, also inviting companies and teachers from these fields to present
lectures about their
work. It had been 4 years since the last time UFMG participated in the iGEM competition, and
this
integrative moment was very special for the organizers of the event to put UFMG’s students
back in touch
with SynBio, no matter if it would be possible or not to participate in the iGEM
competition. Hence, the
Jamboree Brazuca organizers, Yala Sampaio e Paulo Aguiar, supported by professors, such as
Dr. Liza
Felicori and Dr. Rafaela Salgado, decided to fund the UFMG’s Synthetic Biology Club, in
order to attract
new people to the topic and hopefully build a new innovation hub in the academic
environment. </p>
<p>The founders made a selection of participants based on their academic and social
background, selecting
high school students, undergraduates, and graduates from the most diverse fields: biology,
engineering,
pharmacy, chemistry, mathematics, and communication, trying to reach Universities from
different parts of
the country. Most subscribers had a biology background and were from UFMG, however, they
still felt
encouraged during the club’s meetings to discover the wonders of SynBio they had never seen
before, while
participants from other courses had the opportunity to take lessons, discuss and contribute
to a whole new
subject.</p>
<p>Our Synthetic Biology Club was born in 2020 after the Jamboree Brazuca, which made UFMG’s students back in touch with SynBio, hence, organizers of the event, Yala Sampaio and Paulo Aguiar, supported by the professors, such as Dr. Liza Felicori and Dr. Rafaela Salgado, decided to fund the UFMG’s Synthetic Biology Club, in order to attract new people to the topic and hopefully build a new innovation hub in the academic environment. </p>
<p>Needless to say, it was the very same year the COVID-19 pandemic started, hence the
meetings that were
supposed to be carried out in the university and its laboratory environments had to become
