Description:

The protein sequence space is immensely large and diverse. We, Vilnius-Lithuania Overgraduate Team, feel that it is important to allow people from all over the world to see just how big and remarkable it truly is. Thus, our goal is to build an interactive website that will allow to explore the physical manifestation of protein sequence space, just like in the planet and star exploration websites we love so much!

We are looking for Teams to collaborate in this project. The activities we currently need to fill are:
1) Website solutions and coding (~ 2 teams)
2) Art and design (~2 teams)
3) Solutions to translate protein sequence space into 3 dimensions in a most elegant way. (~1 team)


We really hope you will find this little project as exciting as we do!
Kind regards,
2018 Vilnius-Lithuania Overgraduate Team

Description:

Hey iGEMers!

We know all iGEM teams are doing amazing projects and Team ECUST would like to make them accessible to more people. Wechat Subscription is a platform available to everyone on which we can publish articles (we call them Wechat Push), and Team ECUST is running a subscription about iGEM. Therefore, if you are interested in making your project known by more people, you can send your project description to us and we will help in typesetting and publishing the article on our platform. Click here to see the description of ECUST (English version)https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DCOHbCmIO_SidJkkZfW63Q, Chinese version here https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tWKQTuiY2mFci0yVFsI-iA

Given the limitation of space, we hope the English script of your project description can be within about 1,200 words and if necessary, we can offer to translate your English version into Chinese (first come, first served).

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,
The 2018 ECUST iGEM Team

Description:

Dear fellow iGEMers,

We need your help. We’re sure that during the progression of the project, you have come to understand how crucial communication is for members within a team, and the lack of can be detrimental to the team and result in reduced efficiency, productivity, and most importantly affecting the wellbeing of the team members.

We had our challenges when it came to getting along and tensions were high, but we have come a long way since then and we have decided that we do not want anything like that to happen again, not just for ourselves but for all.

We have decided to develop an app that allows every member of the team an equal opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns. In order to design our app and ensure its effectiveness, we need help from the iGEM community. We have designed this survey on google poll for individual team members to fill out; the aim of this survey is to understand what difficulties other teams have faced (or may still be going through) when it comes to team communication. We understand that the topic we wish to discuss is sensitive by its nature, but we assure you that we will maintain as much anonymity as possible. The survey has been designed to not record any personal or institute names. We will only be using this survey to get an idea of what content to include in our app, we will not be using it for any other purpose.

Our only aim with this project is to further our understanding of issues faced by teams and design tools to help deal with them.

Here is the link to our Google survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj_2MJxT28Ta5bpP6KbsO-9dsiG4U4nq9GBq3tIVWi9tWbLw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Along the same lines of communication, we have also designed a science communication guideline, as another issue that we see in our field is inconsistency when it comes to sharing information with non-scientists and the general public. To help scientist tackle this, we have designed this interactive guide, which is still in its early phase, but we would appreciate any feedback that you could give us on its usefulness and any ways that we could improve it.

If you were to fill out the survey or use the communication guide, please do let us know so that we can add you to our collaborations page and link your wiki to ours.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Lots of iGEM love,

Team Imperial

Description:

We, the London university teams (Imperial, UCL, King’s and Westminster), are organising a social meet-up at King’s College London on the 16th of September where we will share issues that each team is facing and collectively solve them together. We believe that even though we are competing against each other in the iGEM competition, we are all still part of the same iGEM family, and family help each other always. So we, your London siblings, are calling out to all our sibling iGEM teams across the UK and further to join us at KCL where we can meet, talk and solve our problems together.

If you would like to come, please do email us so we can have an understanding of numbers and can manage space accordingly.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Lots of iGEM love,

Team Imperial, UCL, KCL and Westminster

Description:

We, the London university teams (Imperial, UCL, King’s and Westminster), are organising an outreach event aimed towards high school students, introducing them to synthetic biology and iGEM. We plan on having key note speakers, a panel style talk and a poster session of the current iGEM team’s projects. We would like to invite all iGEM teams, close and far, to come take part in our event by presenting their posters to teenagers and showing them the scope of synthetic biology.

If you would like to present, please do email us so we can have an understanding of numbers and can manage space accordingly.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Lots of iGEM love,

Team Imperial, UCL, KCL and Westminster

Description:

As a team working with phages for the first time, we are realizing that there are a lot of things that need to be taken into account when doing so. A significant portion of our phage team's efforts went into troubleshooting and resolving issues with very common experiments (like the plaque assay). To ensure that no future teams face similar problems, we are working on a brief list of commandments for phage work that we think every team should necessarily practice. As such, we request all the teams who have previously worked (or are currently working) with phages to send us tips and enhancements to phage protocols that they've used. This list of suggestions will be compiled into a single point resources for all iGEM teams in the future.

There's no set deadline for this collaboration because we can keep on adding new things to the primer, but we'll suggest you send in your submissions by 31st August.

See you at the Jamboree!

Description:

We in Team Edinburgh UG are looking for a team we can collaborate with in order to verify the results of our mathematical modelling work in the wet lab. We have created a model to predict the activation time of a DNA degrading killswitch device however unfortunately we are running short on wet lab time in which to verify our predictions and obtain data to further improve our model. If you would be interested in helping us out and participating in what we believe would be a very fruitful collaboration please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.

Description:

Hey, iGEMers everywhere!
Greetings from the land of pharaohs!
As this is our third time to participate in the competition, we decided to have a greater impact this year.

Our Bioinformaticians and IT members would like to cooperate with other teams and offer them a helping hand in the following topics:
• Retrieval and analysis of the genetic network related to certain diseases with high ranking score and low false discovery rate using public microarray databases
• Drug-protein interaction optimization and docking using Chimera and/or PyMOL
• Pathway enrichment for determined gene(s)

Translations:
We can help in translating different documents to arabic or english and help in distributing surveys on our students so you can have better results and statistics . We'll be glad if you contact us at igem.afcm [AT] gmail.com to start our collaboration or for any further enquiries!

Description:

This year, besides on working on our main project, our human practices group works on behalf of every future iGEM Team developing a booklet about burn outs and how to prevent it. At least in iGEM Uppsala we have a history with dedicated people struggling with this matter. This should never happen in iGEM which is why we work to prevent it!

Right now we are gathering information from other teams than Uppsala so for future iGEM Teams sake, please fill in our survey about the work environment during iGEM Projects and send it to your team members and previous teams! We would be very grateful.

Link to form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWUVgq_Dm1nZTH6d8_JYZohyt8Gwf_sMTF1MaoWJLEjndQXg/viewform?usp=send_form

Description:

Hey iGEM-ers! We are looking for your feedback to look for ways in which we can work together and improve the overall iGEM and synthetic biology experience.

Please fill out the following survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7L7ThdOaoR4atYHG82HBqZv_ZGw7GDmAXkudnaLeIB86MVg/viewform

It's a super quick form, and the information that we gather from you will prove important in building a better environment for all people who want to be involved in synthetic biology. We will acknowledge any teams that participate and wish to be recognized.

Thanks so much!
iGEM UC San Diego 2018

Description:

Hey, we are OUC-China! We have finished a comic book which is about synthetic biology. By doing this, we want to let more and more people know about synthetic biology all over the world. Thus we want to translate it into several different languages. Now we have contact several teams who can translate it into English, Estonian, Russian, French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish.If you can translate it into other languages, welcome to email(oucigem@163.com) us. The translation deadline is September,20.

Description:

Our team is focused on the development of a new therapeutic approach to target melanoma cancer using immunotherapy method, with a focus on vaccines. Furthermore, the project aims to integrate personalised medicine approaches, including a non-invasive follow-up assay that targets miRNA and circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA fragments from the cancer cells that circulate in the blood) as biomarkers for relapse detection.

One of our goals is develop our detection scheme into a portable point-of-care assay. We would also like to collaborate on increasing sensitivity and specificity of our detection assay and to compare with other methods of detection that use CRISPR-Cas12a. We are also working on the possibility of a quantitative colorimetric scheme ( for Cas13a as well ) that will replace fluorescent readouts in order to quantify the amount of ctDNA we have in the blood. In addition to this, we are interested in teams that are developing better storage conditions for CRISPR-Cas12a as well as teams that have experience with product (kit) development ( and 3D printers ) as are working on the possibility of developing a kit for our assay, including the step of ctDNA isolation from blood/plasma/serum.

We would be open to collaborate with teams that are working on any of these aspects of our project in any way possible. We wish all teams the best of luck in their endeavours. See you guys in Boston!

Description:

Our team is focused on the development of a new therapeutic approach to target melanoma cancer using immunotherapy method, with a focus on vaccines. Furthermore, the project aims to integrate personalised medicine approaches, including a non-invasive follow-up assay that targets miRNA and circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA fragments from the cancer cells that circulate in the blood) as biomarkers for relapse detection.

We aim to use CRISPR-Cas12a to detect chromosomal rearrangements in ctDNA (a unique sequence of ctDNA specific to the cancer cells of approximately 60-bp). We are looking for collaborations with teams that are working with, or have previously worked with CRISPR-Cas12a or Cas13a to detect mutations or genetic sequences, as well as experience in producing and purifying this protein.

Another very important biomarker for cancer relapse is miRNA. We are designing dumbbell probes in order to perform rolling circle amplification of miRNA, we are also working on the development of a script to simplify these probe designs from miRNA, and the detection will also be using CRISPR-Cas12a proteins.

We would be open to collaborate with teams that are working on any of these aspects of our project in any way possible. We wish all teams the best of luck in their endeavours. See you guys in Boston!

Description:

We made a wiki webscraper that pulls current project descriptions from all 2018 iGEM wiki pages. We created this tool to more easily find other teams to collaborate with who have projects that are similar to ours. This tool is versatile; with the right "filters" and a bit of editing, you can also pull data like wetlab procedures, Human Practices, and past year's projects that are similar to your project. We have a command-line interface and GUI available; if you would like to use our tool, please visit our GitHub page: https://github.com/Virginia-iGEM/igem-wikiscraper or contact us via email if you have any questions.

Description:

Dear iGEMers!
We have created a survey that we would love for all iGEMers to take. We’re gathering some information about the usage of bacteria chassis in your lab, and information of nicotine in different areas, as we’re working on a nicotine project using Pseudomonas fluorescens as our chassis. If your team could finish these problems, you would do a great help to our project, and therefore we would have a nice collaboration. And we would appreciate it if you could share our survey with non-iGEMers as well.
Here’s the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAub3_J0m18up-nsLAJzSm-nbf_AQe5vOGZ52H37t-lPYJbQ/viewform
If you have other interesting thoughts or advice, please contact us! We would be glad to learn about your idea and acknowledge your help on our wiki!

Description:

We are planing to make a song video where we want all the teams to participate. The music video is called “Labs Like You” and is inspired in Maroon 5’s song “Girls Like You”. If you are willing to collaborate, we will send you a tutorial video wich will explain how to record your team scene. The inscription deadline is the August 3rd.
Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM

Description:

This year, our team is interested in “knocking out” certain genes from the genome of E. coli but initially struggled with finding a way to do so. We began to look into recombineering; we’d heard of CRISPR through science news and past Jamborees and recognized lambda-red recombineering from reading past wikis, but we were unsure how to design recombineering experiments ourselves. We’ve done a lot of reading to plan the experiments for our lambda-red recombineering knockouts, and we wanted to know how your team approached recombination and the outcomes of your efforts.

Our team is interested in collaborating to put together a guide to recombination strategies in E. coli, similar to what TU Eindhoven did in 2015 for cloning (https://2015.igem.org/wiki/images/9/9a/TU_Eindhoven_The_Cloning_Guide.pdf), and we need your help! We have made a set of questions to facilitate discussion about the recombineering system that you used, and we will compile them to make one cohesive guide.

If you’re interested in participating, send us an email and we’ll get you the questions. Looking forward to collaborating with you!

Description:

We attempted to create a Bio-Bricking tool that makes your work easier. Just enter the gene sequence and the tool will automatically Bio-Brick the part for you following the rules. Furthermore it checks for cutters too!! Download the .exe file from our iGEM GitHub repository: https://github.com/igemsoftware2018/Team_ICT_Mumbai and run :)

Feedback and suggestions for improvements are most welcome!!

Description:

We are seeking to collaborate with anther plant team- we are open to suggestions on how anyone could offer us any help! We can offer other teams support by testing their promotors or constructs in a plant system!

Description:

Hello fellow iGEMers! We are excited to announce that Mike the Microbe is back! We invite every iGEM team to participate in our collaboration. Just print out Mike the Microbe, take a picture with him, either with your team or in the lab, and tag us on social media/send it to us. If you are interested in participating, please contact us to receive Mike. We can't wait to see all the creative pictures!

Description:

Haven't started your wiki yet?
We created a wiki-build tool that allows you to automate your workflow on your wiki. With the build tool, you can upload all your pages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and images with one command all at once. Additionally, this tool allows you to iterate faster, as you can edit your website locally on your desktop and immediately see the changes you made. If you're interested in using this tool or want to help improve this tool by making it more user friendly, we would love to collaborate with you! Our email is virginia.igem [at] gmail.com.
With love,
Virginia iGEM

Description:

Dear iGEM community,
we prepared a survey on the state of knowledge about the topics Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern in which scientists from different German universities participated. To get an international outlook on the state of knowledge and to make comparisons, there is now a new, international version. We would be very happy if a large number of you would take part!
https://www.soscisurvey.de/DualUseResearchofConcern/
Thank you and best wishes!
iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2018

Description:

The 2018 Tec-Monterrey team is organizing a special event after our National Congress of Sciences (September 14-15, at ITESM) where participants will be able to share their experiences over a discussion panel and a small networking session . If any team is interested in collaborating (video conferences can be arranged), please contact us!

Description:

Dear present and past iGEMers,

Everyone knows iGEM really wants to put the science, the fun, and the cooperation into focus. The spotlight is now on all of us iGEMers to make sure we can go forth, engage more people, and do it well!

We would like to invite everyone to join us in learning how we approach public engagement and how can go further engaging the public. Please help us fill in this survey: http://bit.ly/igem-survey Let’s share the experience, the good times and the struggles. Cooperation is the keyword here.

Our team will collect your insights, analyse them, and present the findings to the iGEM community. We will help you promote your social media channels as well.

Ultimately, we will unite in spreading the word of iGEM and synthetic biology to the world!

Cheers,
University of Copenhagen iGEM 2018 Team

Description:

Are you interested in making educational Synthetic Biology videos in your native language? We have already done it in English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Hindi.

Look at our work here bit.ly/lang_proj

Collaborate with us, we will send you the English script, translate it into your native language and record an audio of the script and send it to us!

Excited to have you on board, we will be more than happy to list and acknowledge your help on our list of Collaborations, Wiki and YouTube videos.

Description:

ChassiDex is a database of host organisms containing all the information needed to work with the organism listed. Have a look at the database here http://chassidex.org/

Are you working with a "different" chassis?

Help us out by filling this Google form with the necessary information, your entry will be curated and put up on our database. We will be happy to acknowledge your contribution on both our database and on our Wiki.

https://goo.gl/forms/b5tDcKSiTRYXFMxt2

Description:

Dear US iGEM teams,
We are collecting water quality reports from US local councils or water purification plants for a water assay of your drinking water, specifically testing for perchlorate.
Many thanks,
Exeter iGEM

Description:

Hello iGEM Teams!

If any other teams are looking for microplastics, toxicants, antibiotics, etc. in water, we have wastewater samples and water treatment plant samples that are from Los Angeles County. We are open to discussing how we can collaborate and possibly share our resources. Any teams that are also testing water samples may be able to share data on what they find. Data on microplastics is ideal, but toxicant data is also helpful, specifically organic pollutants (OPs) or endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). If you are interested, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,
ULV iGEM 2018

Description:

Hello Again!

Our team is looking to do a fun collaboration. We want as many teams as possible to email us their WORST gel electrophoresis run and a backstory to go with it. Our team will compile the images to make an iGEM scrapbook and add it to our wiki.

We will have some type of voting to decide a third, second, and first place winner. The medal winners will be presented with a badge that they can place on their wiki and/or presentation. A big thank you to all the teams that choose to participate.

Sincerely,
UNL iGEM Team

Description:

Hi There! All members of our team are fully fluent in English language and English grammar. We would love to offer a proof reading service, where we would proof read your team's wiki to check for any grammar errors. This collaboration request is targeted towards iGEM teams where English is not your first language. To take part in this collaboration, please send your team name and wiki link to the email above. Thank you!

Description:

We are organizing a survey in order to capture information about different treatments of burns around the world, the prevention that is held in your country and how are the statistics in it. If you want to help us, please answer our survey that will help us in our project, because we are looking forward to develop a new treatment for burned people, that will reduce the time of hospitalization and help skin regeneration. The following survey link is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-FEF-lBXEwtLbkbtkaOUeUX4wNstMK8ytGT7EAjLUCjkhzA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM

Description:

We are organizing a collaboration and troubleshooting group for all the LatinAmerican iGEM teams in order to create a common front in the competition, so please contact us to join the group where you can search for collaborations, inspire teams, or search for help to solve any problem that your team has.

Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM

Description:

Dear iGEMers,

Our team is working on creating an effective bait for the Emerald Ash Borer Beetle, an invasive species to North America. You can learn more by contacting us via email and we'll be happy to discuss our project!

We have created a quick 10 question survey that we would love for all iGEMers to take. If your team members choose to participate, we will present your team with a badge of contribution. We would really appreciate it if you could share a variant of our survey with non-iGEMers as well.

Please follow this link to access the survey (iGEMers): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TRJKVD8
Please share this survey link (non-iGEMers): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TR3PD3G

Best Wishes!

Description:

Greetings from iGEM Tec-Chihuahua!

We are currently working on an entrepreneurship manual which iGEM teams could rely on for the development of the entrepreneurial section of their projects. We hope that this manual can be used in forthcoming editions of the competition so teams may have a suitable guide which they can draw upon. It is our intention for this guide to include situations that different iGEM teams of all around the word experience while exploring the entrepreneurial field. Thus, we invite you to collaborate with us and with the iGEM community by sending us questions and concerns that have arisen while managing this section of your projects. iGEM Tec-Chihuahua will consult different experts and share with you the best solutions. We will also include your questions and concerns with their respective answers in our manual for future reference.

Attached to this message, you will find a Google Form to receive your support on the development of this manual. We include some questions to gather statistics about entrepreneurship in iGEM and a section for you to share with us feedback for this manual.

The deadline for filling this Google Form is July 18 and iGEM Tec-Chihuahua will send the corresponding answers to each team the first week of August.

We wish you the best for your projects.

Thank you so much!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfooEx-ve4OCPklJeNpG8nAMcSc6Uyx-kIwyoFnOpaiFC3u_w/viewform?usp=sf_link
In case you can’t open the file, please let us know

Description:

Hello iGEMers

As we are investigating a possibility to produce a palm seed oil analog with E. coli, we are looking for a specific Acinetobacter strain, in detail Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1. If someone could send us the strain or a specific cPCR product, you would have an overall impact on our project and therefore a nice collaboration.

If you need more details, please send us an email to office [AT] igem-graz.at

Sincerely,
the iGEM Team NAWI_Graz

Description:

Hi iGEM teams!

Our team is passionate about making scientific research accessible to as many people as possible. In 2017, we created a blog called Think of the PLOSibilities which posts weekly summaries of open access journals, such as Public Library of Science (PLOS), without heavy scientific jargon. We would love to feature a diverse range of scientific subjects and have representation from scientific communities around the world! If your team is interested in contributing to the blog and submitting your own summary, you can find the steps to submit a summary here: https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/how-to-submit-a-summary and you can find previous postings here: https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/blog/. We look forward to reading your submissions!

Thank you and best of luck with the rest of the season!

- Dalhousie iGEM

Description:

Hello iGEM Teams!

This year, Stony Brook iGEM aims for success beyond just the lab environment. To engage our community and teach them about Synthetic Biology in a more impactful manner, we created an Instagram Challenge for iGEM teams! For the entire month of July, there is a set of daily prompts to encourage teams to share more about their projects and Synthetic Biology! If you are interested in participating or learning more, visit the #iGEMPhotoADay Challenge page that we have created with all of the prompts at https://tinyurl.com/iGEM-Instagram-Challenge and follow us on Instagram @igem.stonybrook!

We are also interested in collaborating in regards to our project itself! Our team is working with the cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 (UTEX 2434) and is working on sucrose production via Gibson Assembly and directed evolution. If any other teams are working with cyanobacteria or directed evolution, we would love to collaborate!

Additionally, thanks to Opentrons, we have access to our own OT-2 Robot and can collaborate on automatic protocols as well!

We wish you luck on your project and can’t wait to see you at the Jamboree!
Best wishes,
Stony Brook iGEM

Description:

Hi there fellow iGEMers!

To complete the interlab study, we need to borrow a plate reader. (Ours broke)

Many Thanks!
Jessica

Description:

Every iGEM project is changing the world. We want to recognize the SUPER abilities of all the iGEM teams by creating a league of superheroes made up of superheroes designed by each team based on their project. If your team is interested, please sign up by July 30th here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbQ60mINUxxWJgLJhW-ZLJBKEJU3KaJJgd1bfjR PEuzzwcvg/viewform?usp=sf_link) . All superheroes will be placed on a trading card, and each team will receive trading cards from all the teams that participated. What we need from you: Name of Team, Name of Superhero, Contact Info, “Home Base” for your superhero, the Superhero’s Mission, and any Special Powers that your Superhero has. If you have any questions or need help designing your superhero, feel free to email us.

Description:

Dear fellow iGEMers,
The Interlab study for this year's competition has an EXTRA credit component if teams are able to perform FACS analysis alongside the 96-well plate readings. The teams who perform the FACS will get a special mention in the resulting publication.

Although we have access to a FACS machine, we don't have the specific calibration beads that iGEM requires us to use.

Would any team be interested in splitting the cost of the Rainbow calibration beads (type RCP-30-5A or URCP-38-2K) with us? You only need a few drops to run the calibration so there should be more than enough left from the 5ml pack. Alternatively, if you have the beads and are willing to ship a small aliquot to us, we would be happy to officially list you as a collaborator for this part of the work.

Please let us know if your team is interested in such a collaboration for the FACS module of the Interlab study. Good luck to all team and we look forward to seeing you at the Jamboree!

Cheers,
Team Ruia-Mumbai

Description:

To the iGEM Family out there,

We at IIT Kanpur, India, are trying to engineer a synthetic biology system to be able to profitably degrade Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate into Lauryl Alcohol. To be able to better contribute towards the environment through our project and achieve the dream of clean water bodies, we need your help.
We aim to collaborate with you, through exchange of knowledge which can be done easily by you filling out the following survey : https://goo.gl/forms/YwyxsR7y7ufGWCl13

We wish you success in your venture and hope this collaboration can become successful.

With love
Team IIT Kanpur

Description:

We're interested in learning about the legal and ethical issues of engineered probiotics in different parts of the world, so we're looking for teams from different countries to help us finding information about clinic trials, startups, researches and legal issues regarding genetically modified probiotics in their country. If you are interested, please contact us!
Also, if your team is also working with engineered probiotics, contact us too!

Description:

Hey teams! Assembling genetic circuits takes time, and time is precious with Giant Jamboree coming up fast in October. To help future teams build circuits faster, part of our work this year is converting some of the most used and greatest basic parts into a form compatible with a new faster hybrid assembly method. We want your best 2018 part to be a part of this library for future teams to use! Please email us at igem [AT] wm.edu if you are interested in having your part in our library. We are happy to answer any of your questions and look forward to hearing from you!

Much love,
William & Mary

Description:

Hi everyone,

Calling all iGEM teams! This year, Team Harvard wants to work with you all to end the stigma against synthetic biology. We’ve noticed that human contact with bacteria is frequently associated with negative consequences and as such, it is regarded as dangerous by the general public. As iGEM teams, we understand that genetically engineering bacteria is a largely untapped resource for positive change. Help us show the world the true potential of harnessing bacteria for use in therapeutics, diagnostics, the environment and more!

We plan to release a series of newsletters and articles to showcase all of the cool things teams are doing with bacteria for their projects. We’d love to feature your work in our series! If you’d like to participate, please email a description of your project and if possible, a photo to go along with it to higemteam2018 [AT] gmail.com. The more teams that we hear back from the better! Just a couple minutes of your time could make a big difference in our community.

We look forward to hearing from you and wish you all good luck with your projects!

Warm regards,
The 2018 Harvard iGEM Team

Description:

Hi everyone!

We from team Linköping (Sweden) have a new idea for a collaboration. We would love it if your team would send us a letter (or an email) with a short text about what you are doing, fun stuff that is happening in and outside of the lab and/or quotes. If you want to it would be fun if you include some photos as well. The goal is to create a book/document from all of the stories that will be published on our facebook page, and home page. If you want to take part, please send your contribution to us before August 1st. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!

Send the letter to:
LiU iGEM
Kårallen, Linköpings Universitet
581 83 Linköping, Sweden.

If you would rather email us: igem.linkoping [AT] gmail.com

Much love,
LiU iGEM 2018
https://www.facebook.com/LiuIgem/

Description:

Dear iGEM Community,

This is a collaboration request to ALL iGEM teams! Join us in showcasing the wonderment of iGEM and synthetic biology by creating a science sketch of your team’s project or any major techniques/principles that your project is using. Through the series of 1-3-minute sketches, we hope to promote public awareness of the iGEM competition as well as to show how synthetic biology can be utilized to solve problems facing mankind in an innovative manner!

The aim of the science sketches is to make a collaborative educational playlist with videos from teams all over the world, about their projects and/or the scientific principle behind their project. This playlist will be made public, so that any iGEM team can use it in their outreach activities, thus enabling all teams to spread the knowledge of synthetic biology to their communities.

It is preferable that we receive the video of the science sketches before the 20th of September, 2018. This would give us enough time to make the playlist and also show it in outreach events. Please make sure to add your team's name and your institution's name at the end or beginning of the video. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We have also created a detailed description of how to make a science sketch. Hope this helps!

Curious about what science sketches are like? Check out the science sketch that our team has created for iGEM! Here are two other examples, RPA, LAMP, for those considering making one for scientific principles/techniques.

Join us and have a lot of fun! Be creative!
We look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,
iGEM NYU Abu Dhabi 2018

Description:

Hey iGEM Teams,As we all know iGEM is not only about experiments and labwork but also about bringing the topic “synthetic biology” closer to the public. In order to do so the previous iGEM teams of the Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf created a project to promote synthetic biology in public using self-designed postcards. Each year a bunch of iGEM teams decided to join which is why the campaign was a huge success with a lot of beautiful and funny postcards as a result.

How does it work? Every participating team designs a postcard which shows an image related to synthetic biology (or your topic) on the front and a small informational text on the back. Afterwards each team’s postcards are exchanged with other iGEM-teams so that every team can collect postcards from all over the world. The received postcards can then be shared with people in the neighborhood, during public events etc.

If you want to check out the last year’s campaigns for inspiration, visit the wiki of Duesseldorf 2016 or the wiki of Duesseldorf-Cologne 2017

How to design your postcards:
Image related to your project or (synthetic) biology in general on the front
Small informational text on the back
Standard postcard format (A6; 14,8cm x 10,5cm)

If you are interested in joining us please let us know until the 15th of June, so we can figure out how many postcards each team should print and send. Please don't forget to include your address! Important: This is not the deadline for sending and designing the postcard!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Much love,
iGEM Team Duesseldorf 2018