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As it is our university's first time competing in iGEM, we found neighborly mentors in the team from Ben Gurion University (BGU) - only a two hour drive away from our own university! For one, they helped us design an overall yearly program for iGEM tasks based on their previous experiences, also sharing a detailed budget plan with our PI for reference.

BGU we instrumental in our completion of the interlab study, which was a necessity for our team to fulfil our medal requirements. Our team did not meet the Interlab standards by the first deadline, and as such it was critical that we did it right for the final submission in August. BGU assisted us by troubleshooting issues we had in our first try, helped us plan out the experiment well, and even provided is with comptent D5a E. coli, which we ran out of when we need them most.

Finally, BGU hosted a meetup between our two teams which included a quick tour and presentation by our hosts, help establishing good presentation structure for the conference, and a super-fun bowling game!

Mr. Chlorofella from Macquarie team amazed us by his performance, which gained his team the 3d printed safety poery trophy for 2018!

[video]

Lo! My cells hath grown!
A sea of specks, like ancient constellations
Innumerable, and ever doubling.
With each cellular division so to is my despair divided, vanquished.

Before me, my happiness in tremulous agar
Oh how I've transformed my cells, and how they've transformed me!
Plasmids taken up, and with them my heart
I reach out, drawn to them, attraction inescapable

Sweet contact, pure bliss, prokarya and eukarya unified as one
Softly, I wipe away the tears of joy, of science realised
In an instant my heart sinks, my ungloved hand drawing away from my face in horror

That was last summer
Coughing, wheezing, I glance out my hospital window
And with an autumn breeze fell leaves and a molecular biologist too

Gathered round a weeping crowd
Regretting this gloveless tragedy

NCHU are working on the same issue – TCDD Degradation. Therefore, we decided to conduct a skype session in order to exchange ideas, plans and different challenge that arose for both teams.

Exchanging Ideas through a skype meeting, which was organized by Carla and Eliya.

During the year we helped Tartu research by completing a survey concerning the use of sunscreen. Moreover, Tartu team participated in our Livestream program and helped us investigate the problem of dioxin in Estonia.