This year our devoted and highly motivated team organized the second Mediterranean meet up in Marseille on the 9 th and 10 th August 2018. This second edition of the mediterranean meet up was again a great opportunity to met each other and to share about their project. It’s a mini-jamboree including poster presentations, for teams from Mediterranean countries only. It was rewarding to make a Giant Jamboree rehearsal.

This year, 7 teams from Spain and France joined us: UPF_CRG_Barcelona, Madrid-OLM, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Pasteur_Paris, Paris_Bettencourt, and Montpellier. To present their projects and captivate the audience, the teams had 180 seconds. An initiative that was taken from Swissnex Brazil and Nano-Tera.

We had a caring judging panel to evaluate the presentations: Mr. Laurent VILLARD (Department of medical genetics at the Timone hospital), M. Victoria SCHMIDT (Post-doctoral at the LISM laboratory), M. Leticia HOUOT (Secondary PI), Mr. Gauthier DANGLA PELISSIER (Instructor), Mr. Marlon SIDORE (Instructor), and M. Thea Chrysostomou the European after-iGEM ambassador

We organized presentations of the different projects and poster sessions. The presentation was a project description in 180 secondes, in order to perform a tonic training session. It’s a chance for iGEMers to make a synthesis of their work. After the project presentation, we visited and discovered city . This meet up allowed the teams to better know each other and create strong social link. Then it was an excellent rehearsal and a great opportunity to develop our cooperation spirit. We thank Bordeaux, Grenoble, Montpellier, Pasteur Paris, Paris SorbonneParis Bettencourt, Barcelona and Madrid teams for coming in Marseille. We hope to perpetuate this international meet up and to meet them soon at the Giant Jamboree.