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        Introduction
        About the iGem competition
      The international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition is the largest worldwide synthetic biology competition for collegiate students. It aims to combine and create novel biological (genetic) parts, which can be incorporated in an organism, thereby equipping it with new functions. 

Each year, multi-disciplinary teams from all over the world work for nine months to produce their own enhanced organism using synthetic biology. This year, our work will be presented to the scientific community at the Giant Jamboree in Boston in November 2017. Next to the research conducted, public outreach is an important part of the competition. Each team aims to spread public awareness on synthetic biology by means of a website, presentations and appearances at conferences and events, amongst others.


      iGEM TU Delft 2017
      Our team aims to make diagnostic tools widely available outside specialised hospital environments. This can be achieved by engineering E. coli for disease detection. By exploiting the ability of tardigrades to survive in dried environments, we can apply our engineered E. coli dried on a simple paper microfluidic device. In this way our application can be a point-of-care device to test for a disease of choice.


      iGEM: A TU Delft Dreamteam
iGEM is a part of the large TU Delft Dream Team family. Dream Teams are
teams that pursue their goals in many different categories of science. An example is the NUON solar team, which annually participates in a car race driven by solar energy.
These projects are very progressive and are well known to people all over the world. 
 As our sponsor, you have the chance of adding a group of intelligent, engaged students to your professional network. The iGEM Delft team is well known among students and its progress and success is followed by 1000 users on facebook and 500+ users on Twitter and LinkedIn. Regular posts will keep our followers up to date on our progress and our supporters. Besides that, the team will also be involved in several outreach events and congresses to promote synthetic biology.

      Above all, we will travel to Boston to present our project at the Giant Jamboree.This will expand our audience to the global synthetic biology community due to attendance to workshop and our final poster presentation hosted in Boston.

      Sponsor Opportunities:

      As our sponsor, you gain public attention through our multiple channels
and you benefit from direct contact with the talented students and supervisory
body of our team. Therefore, your investment will allow you to position yourself as a possible employer in this diverse field not only within our team, but throughout our extended network.
We propose a set of packages that indicate privileges depending on the contribution. Privileges and sums can be negotiated.