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The European Experience, Paris July 2nd to 3rd

The first big journey for our team lead us all the way to Paris, France. Following the invitation by the teams from iGEM IONIS and Evry we packed our suitcases and off we went.

And after a little climbing tour to Montmartre and maybe some Super-Last-Minute poster printing ;), we settled for the night in our shady "lodging" to be ready to showcase our project for the first time publicly.

Early in morning we headed to the event location. First objective: COFFEE,
which ended to be a great challenge than expected. Don't bring a knife (instant coffee) to a gun fight (horde of thirsty, tired students) :D

But after breakfast was aquired things started to get interesting. Dozens of awesome projects from all over Europe and even the UK! It was great to see all those ideas and of course to be able to show our bioprinting project to the world. We also got some helpful tips and hints.

After the poster sessions was over and food was ingested, some interesting panels on ethics and entrepreneurship in synthetic biology followed before it was time for Randy to drop some final Brexit jokes and end the scientific section of the event.

The evening promised to be a great dance party in "downtown paris" including a live stream of the quarterfinal match of the European Championship between Italy and of course Germany. After this sweat-braking super-tight overly nerve-wrecking game was finally over, with the better end for us :), we hit the dance floor down in the underground car park. The midnight surprise, breathtaking fire-breather, which for some reason was interrupted by the security guard, I wonder why ;).

iGEM meets Marburg, Marburg August 5th to 7th

Helping other teams

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