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<p style = "color:#0071A7; font-size:150%; padding:3% 8% 3% 5%;">In the beginning of the summer, we collaborated with MIT, specifically their Recombinase team. Topics discussed included structures of recombinase circuits, phylogenic tree of recombinases, as well as the orthogonality of various heterospecific site-recombinase pairs. In addition, we worked with the entire MIT team to prepare for the NEGEM #1 conference, practicing both presentations and responding to audience questions.</p>
 
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        <p style = "color:#0071a7; font-size:150%; padding:70px 0px 0px 0px;  position:relative; left:50px;">Both BostonU iGEM teams traveled to Ginkgo Bioworks with several of our mentors to tour their lab facility and see some of their experiments, some of which focus on generating synthetic fragrances.  We were particularly interested in the many innovations that exist in the integrative field of molecular cloning and automation, which Ginkgo is highly involved in. Both teams their academic work stepped up to an industrial scale.</p>
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<p style = "color:#0071A7; font-size:150%; padding:4% 5% 1% 8%;">During NEGEM #1, we mingled with the other teams in attendance to potentially collaborate to improve experimental projects or human practices projects.  While there, we learned WPI was using microscopy to analyze fluorescence in their experiments and offered them to use our flow cytometers to help them quantify their data.  They took us up on the offer and drove to our lab  where we prepped their cells and ran them through our flow cytometer. We also helped them analyze and interpret their data using the FloJo program.</p>
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        <p style = "color:#507f54; font-size:150%; padding:40px 0px 0px 0px;  position:relative; left:50px;">While visiting Monsanto, we were given a presentation about what their work at that particular branch of Monsanto. We learned about the process of protein optimization and got a tour of their lab space. Their scientists are working on designing a protein to integrate into crops that would be toxic to certain species of insects. In addition, they were excited to hear about both BU iGEM teams projects, and both teams gave full presentations. </p>
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<p style = "color:#0071A7; font-size:150%; padding:0% 8% 0% 5%;">We collaborated with our fellow home team, BostonU HW (Hardware) to accomplish one of our Human Practices projects, a blog about intellectual property in synthetic biology and software. The first blog was a team effort to introduce our readers to intellectual property, patents, copyrights, etc. and to establish the tone for our blogs.  Each subsequent blog was then switched off so the wet lab team wrote one week and the hardware team wrote the following week.  Of course our bloggers, Castor and Pollux, always edited each other's work before it was uploaded.</p>
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LabCentral
Ginkgo
Monsanto
MIT


In the beginning of the summer, we collaborated with MIT, specifically their Recombinase team. Topics discussed included structures of recombinase circuits, phylogenic tree of recombinases, as well as the orthogonality of various heterospecific site-recombinase pairs. In addition, we worked with the entire MIT team to prepare for the NEGEM #1 conference, practicing both presentations and responding to audience questions.

WPI


During NEGEM #1, we mingled with the other teams in attendance to potentially collaborate to improve experimental projects or human practices projects. While there, we learned WPI was using microscopy to analyze fluorescence in their experiments and offered them to use our flow cytometers to help them quantify their data. They took us up on the offer and drove to our lab where we prepped their cells and ran them through our flow cytometer. We also helped them analyze and interpret their data using the FloJo program.

BostonU Hardware


We collaborated with our fellow home team, BostonU HW (Hardware) to accomplish one of our Human Practices projects, a blog about intellectual property in synthetic biology and software. The first blog was a team effort to introduce our readers to intellectual property, patents, copyrights, etc. and to establish the tone for our blogs. Each subsequent blog was then switched off so the wet lab team wrote one week and the hardware team wrote the following week. Of course our bloggers, Castor and Pollux, always edited each other's work before it was uploaded.

We also met weekly with the Hardware team to work on our team Wikis together, whether it was how to code to get a desired aesthetic or to test the practicality and functionality of the websites.