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Collaborations

Science is rarely a one man/woman job and usually requires people with different backgrounds to work together to solve the challenges encountered. iGEM is no different. To encompass this spirit the IGEM 2017 Groningen team strives to work together with multiple team on different aspect of our project and hopefully further strengthen connection.

Scientific collaborations:

1. To further develop & establish Lactococcus lactis as a chassis in IGEM we collaborated with the IGEM team of Sao Paulo sending them protocols since we have a lot of in house experience with working on lactis. This helped us.
2. To help the Nottingham team we tested their E.coi RFP fluorescence in our lab to provide an external control.
3. NAWI-Graz: Our friends from Austria are developing a bioelectronic interface controlled by bacterial GFP-expression. They have developed a software to validate part of their experiments. iGEM Groningen has worked together with them to design mazes and therefore improve the functionality and identify flaws in the design.

Human practices:

1. Virtual meet up Vilnius-Lithuania, Abu Dhabi (with follow up discussion) We presented our project designs to each other and critically debated their feasibility as well as implementation of the final product. This helped us gain insight into possible experimental flaws. Abu Dhabi is also working on designing a cartridge, so their engineering advice was appreciated and contributed to improving our cartridge. We held a follow up discussion to update on the progress achieved and get advice on the challenges met. We had a few issues with cloning and got some help that enabled us to get our construct from team Vilnius. We hoped our input also improved on their design.
2. Virtual meet up – ethics, Oslo, Graz, Zurich, lund, upsalla. Team Uppsala moderated a discussion together with Oslo, Graz, Zurich and Lund about the ethical implications of our projects. We tried to respond to the following questions:
   1. Uncontrolled Release. Can we anticipate how our Genetically Engineered Machine (GEM) would behave if released? What would be ideal conditions to grow and could they potentially be met? Can we anticipate any interactions with any form of wildlife? What would be ideal conditions to grow and could they potentially be met?
   2. Misuse. Can we think some steps ahead and imagine a potentially harmful usage with our open-source GEM?