This year we have been working alongside iGEM teams from across the globe. We have been working closely with teams from Newcastle, Glasgow and Purdue to help each other improve our projects from both in and outside the lab.
For one of our collaborations With Newcastle we had to find the thermal conductivity of various growth media. Using the apparatus we had available we found the thermal conductivity of lb and M9 to be roughly the same as water. The conductivity of water at room temperature is about 598.4 $\frac{mW}{Km}\text{ }$(mili watt per metre kelvin). We found the conductivity of LB and M9 to be (605 $\pm$ 20) $\frac{mW}{Km}\text{ }$ and (570 $\pm$ 30) $\frac{mW}{Km}\text{ }$ respectively You can read more about out method here.
This year the Purdue iGEM team are creating an online database called igem.tech. It is designed to be an easy way to navigate through previous teams projects and achievements. Our team helped Purdue with this by logging data for some of the 260 iGEM teams of 2015 and critiquing ease of use and effectiveness of the database.
