S2E2 | BioBuilder and the SUIS High School iGEM team. Zeeshan chats with David Doyle.

David first heard about iGEM during his travels abroad in Japan while reading Regenesis, authored by Harvard Geneticist Dr. George M. Church. Upon his return, David successfully pitched the idea to the SUIS School Board, and then developed a co-curricular activity through the BioBuilder Club, an educational curriculum invented by Dr. Natalie Kuldell of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Because BioBuilder teaches engineering with biology, this program serves to educate both teachers and students. The SUIS iGEM Team then emerged from the BioBuilder Club through casual conversation, and attended its first iGEM Jamboree in 2017. And in 2018, the they won the award for Best Education & Public Engagement.