Difference between revisions of "Team:USP UNIFESP-Brazil/Collaborations"

One of UFAM-UEA 2016 iGEM team aims is to build a prototype bioreactor in which their engineered strains will be used in mercury contaminated water bioremediation process. To establish this partnership, we had some meetings with Manaus iGEMers in São Paulo and via Skype afterwards.

We also hosted them in São Paulo and showed a little of our campus and our city :)

Bioreactor model printing

UFAM-UEA team prepared a bioreactor model design/project to be 3D printed. Our team used a 3D printer available in our lab to print a reactor model and send it to the Manaus team at the Giant Jamboree. This 3D model will be used by the team in the 2016 Giant Jamboree and other project dissemination talks.

Bioprocess mentoring

Our team offered the Manaus team mentoring in bioprocesses, since one of the research groups involved in our work has great experience in this area. We had Skype meetings to discuss the implementation of a bioreactor for mercury contaminated waters streams treatment.

Molecular Biology mentoring

UFAM-UEA team offered us molecular biology mentoring via Skype. Their tips helped us in our difficult task to polymerize MaSp DNA sequences, in order to obtain a greater number of ‘mer’ units for expression of this silk protein in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. They also contributed by telling their previous iGEM experience, better explaining the criteria to be evaluated and giving tips on how to build our wiki page.

We exchanged a lot of ideas and support and even considered “assembling” both teams together at the beginning! This interaction which grew strong during iGEM will surely yield further collaborations, both for future iGEMs and independent projects involving science awareness and DIY Bio.