I gave a talk on the iGEM competition as a microcosm to understand team success in science at the Sunbelt 2018 conference in Utrecht, in the “Wicked problems” session. Had great feedback from the social sciences crowd, and a great conference overall! Taking back some new ideas to pursue, and hope to be at the next one in Montreal in 2019!
talks
Talk at NetSci18 satellite “Quantifying Success”
I am happy to give a presentation on the iGEM project on 11 June 2018 at the “Quantifying success” satellite of the Network Science conference NetSci18! The program looks wonderful!
Talks at Sunbelt and IC2S2 conferences
I will be presenting my work on team success in the iGEM competition at the Sunbelt 2018 conference in Utrecht (Netherlands) on 30 June 2018, as well as at the International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2 at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Evanston IL (USA) on July 13-15 (exact date to come). If you are also going to any of the two, ping me!
Prize for best presentation at Complex Networks 2017
My presentation on iGEM got the prize for best presentation at the Complex Networks 2017 conference in Lyon, France ! In this work, we investigate criteria of performance and success of teams in a scientific context. We leverage laboratory notebooks edited on wiki websites by student teams participating to the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) synthetic biology competition to uncover what features of team work best predict short term quality (medals, prizes) and long term impact (how the biological parts that teams engineer are re-used by other teams). Thanks to the organizers for the nice award (and I got two beautiful pens :))!
Talk at Complex Networks 2017
I will give a talk at the Complex Networks 2017 conference in Lyon (Nov 29 – Dec 01 2017). My presentation will cover the iGEM study on team success in science. You can have a look at my abstract!
Marc Santolini 