Collaboration with the NDC-HighRiverAB iGEM Team

We first came into contact with the NDC-HighRiverAB iGEM team at the aGEM competition in September, where we watched them present about their project "The RMS E. coli". They were working on creating E. coli that express an esterase capable of breaking down "fatbergs" that cause issues in wastewater treatment facilities. During this presentation, they indicated that they were interested in using spectrophotometry to gather quantitative data pertaining to enzyme kinetics under different reaction conditions. However, as a first year high school iGEM team, they had limited access to certain laboratory equipment.

We helped them design their spectrophotometry experiment and helped them run these assays using our spectrophotometer. They travelled from their neighbouring town of High River to our lab at the University of Calgary multiple times to attend a workshop hosted by our team's graphic design specialist and to perform the spectrophotometry experiments.

Queens Canada Collaboration

As a fellow Canadian team, we hoped for an ongoing relationship with the Queens Canada iGEM team. Coincidentally, both members of the uCalgary team and the Queens team were also participating in a second research competition called the Canada Reduced Gravity Experiment (Can-RGX). Can-RGX is a nationwide competition wherein four collegiate teams were selected to prototype and test an experiment in micro-gravity through parabolic flight.

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