Igem Team Collaboration

One of our team goals was to first raise awareness about the IGEM competition and to maitain the IGEM culture as a tradition for the various universities forming our team. To do so, we decided to participate in the 1^st meeting of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Master program of UPMC, as a start, where we knew we would have a large audience. We invited the IONIS team to join the meeting in order for students to see the diversity of projects present in the competition. Together, we presented the competition, our individual projects and our experience with every aspect of the competition. It was a successful meeting as numerous students approached us at the end and long after the meeting to hear more about the competition.

We performed our experiment at an open lab named “La paillasse”. The Ionis team also happened to use this lab where they started before we did. They were highly helpful as they showed us around, taught us different tricks or our experiments and how to use various equipment. We both shared reagents and material such as tips, mediums, and antibiotics. They also gave us competent DH5α E. coli when we needed it. We also discussed about protocols we used and it was an opportunity to provide ideas.

We also participated in surveys from different IGEM teams including the Evry team (“Let's PLAy: Polylactic Acid Plastic Revolution”), Göttingen team (“B₁₂ - Another Brick in the Wall”) and Munich United team (“Enabling Factors in Biotech”). Concerning the Evry team’s survey, as it was a survey directed to the general public, we also motivated other people to fill it. We are looking forward to see the results of these surveys.

Sponsors :

• FSDIE : UPMC

• Master BMC : UPMC

• Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement - UMR7622 : UPMC

• PMC Lab : UPMC

• FSIE : UPEC

• La Paillasse

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  Servier

• Logement at Boston

• Donations via Hello Asso

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  Also, thanks to everyone else!