36. Offer of Fluorescence Detection and Modelling

Team: Oxford
Team Location: University of Oxford, UK
Contact Information: Email on oxfordigem@bioch.ox.ac.uk (preferred), or facebook/twitter/instagram on @oxfordigem
Collaboration description:
Hi teams! Here at Oxford we're lucky to have access to lots of different equipment, and we want to share it with you! We can do flow cytometry and fluorescent microscopy very easily in our lab - and if there's something else you're looking for, we may be able to help there too. We are also able to offer help on modelling, such as sensitivity modelling or stochastic modelling. If there's anything else you think we might be able to help on, please ask. Best, Oxford iGEM (See cruzi)

35. Measuring ammonia from air

Team: ICT-Mumbai
Team Location: Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India
Contact Information: igem.ictmumbai@gmail.com
Collaboration description:
Hello fellow iGEMers! We aim to engineer E. coli to rapidly assimilate ammonia from air and produce a fragrant molecule. Such engineered cells can be used to deodorize chemical laboratories and washrooms. For this, we wish to measure dissolution of ammonia in aqueous media from ammonia-containing air. The dissolved ammonia will support growth of GFP-expressing E. coli. GFP fluorescence will be used to quantitate dissolved ammonium concentrations.
We wish to collaborate with other teams to validate and standardize a robust assay that can be used to measure ammonia. Such an assay can be potentially used to measure any other volatile substance that can support growth of microorganisms. Teams interested in collaborating are requested to mail igem.ictmumbai@gmail.com

34. iGEM Little Snazzy Man (“Flat Stanley”)

Team: US AFRL CarrollHS
Team Location: Carroll High School and USA
Contact Information: igem@carrollhs.org - Twitter: @iGEMLabPats Instagram: @igemlabpats
Collaboration description:

Hello, we are the US_AFRL_Carrollhs team. We are a new high school iGEM team and share a passion in science. For human practices in order to accomplish connections with other teams, we are using the method of Flat Stanley which is a book written by Jeff Brown. Flat Stanley is where you connect with other people (teams) by sending out a paper person (microbe) across the world by mail (email). Our team has created a colorful, creative microbe and would love for your team to participate in the project by taking pictures of the microbe. Below on the email is an attachment of the microbe. If you like to participate with the Flat Stanley project, please print out the microbe in the file and take pictures with it in your lab or with your team. You can either email, tweet, or tag us in Instagram or Facebook with the photo’s your team has taken. We are using the hashtag #LittleSnazzyMAn. We can’t wait to see the creative photo your team takes.
Thanks so much for your participation! LabPats

33. First Aid Service for PCR Problems - offer for all High School teams and other teams having trouble with their PCRs

Team: iGEM Team Heidelberg
Team Location: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Contact Information: Pauline Pfuderer heidelberg.igem2017@gmail.com
Collaboration description:
Dear iGEM community,
Our PCR-experts team created a masterplan and a first aid service for all kind of PCR problems. If you have trouble with your PCRs don´t hesitate to contact us, we can probably help you to making your PCR run. Just send us an email with your primers, templates and problems you faced in former PCR runs or a parcel with your template and primers and we will send back the PCR product to you.
All the best,
iGEM Team Heidelberg

32. Survey from Cardiff iGEM

Team: Cardiff iGEM
Team Location: Cardiff University, Wales
Contact Information: Twitter @iGEM_Cardiff
Collaboration description:
We have made a survey to investigate the public's views on genetic modification to produce medicines. We would love for your input, thank you!
Survey link: https://goo.gl/forms/0uIoOBtMkcgGiz542

Cardiff iGEM

31. Need Wiki help? - iGEM Development Environment

Team: Bristol
Team Location: University of Bristol, Bristol UK
Contact Information: Contact is via Twitter @bristoligem , Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bristoligem/ ) or Email: bristoligem@gmail.com
Collaboration description:

Hi iGEM 2017 Teams!
We've found editing the wiki to be slow and at times frustrating. In response to this we have have developed a tool called the iGEM Development Environment (IDE).
IDE replicates how your iGEM Wiki page will look locally without the need to upload repeatedly to the iGEM website. The benefits of this is that you can create and very quickly edit your wiki locally and see how it would look without going through the process of editing through the iGEM Website. There are also no surprises when you upload to the iGEM Wiki, your wiki pages should look exactly how you see them through IDE.
If you're interested or need some general help with your wiki please get in touch with us!
Regards,
The Bristol iGEM Team

30. Tolerance Photo Challenge

Team: Technion Israel
Team Location: Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
Contact Information: Our Facebook page or our email igem.technion.2017@gmail.com
Collaboration description:
TOLERANCE CHALLENGE!
In our project we aim to prevent the onset of allergies and autoimmune disease by inducing “immune tolerance”. In the lab we intend to fight our body’s innate intolerance; outside we want to fight human intolerance.

We are asking other iGEM teams to help us combat intolerance globally! With this challenge we aim to promote our project idea and help spread our message of tolerance. Please post a picture of your team holding a sign with the word “Tolerance” on it. In the picture please emphasize if possible how tolerance and diversity are relevant to your team (e.g., religion, ethnicity, gender, nationality etc…). Feel free to be creative and bring your team’s spirit into the picture!

The team with the most diverse and creative picture will be featured on our wiki page and in our final presentation at the Giant Jamboree!

Please remember to tag our social media accounts as well as yours! (instagram: @igem.2017.technion, Facebook @igemtechnion and Twitter: @IgemTechnion) And don’t forget the hashtags #iGEM #Tolerance_Challenge

29. Seminar: Introduction to Optogenetics

Team: Düsseldorf Cologne
Team Location: Germany
Contact Information: You can contact us via Twitter @IGEM17DUS_CGN, on Facebook, or send us an email: igem@hhu.de .
Collaboration description:
Dear iGEM Teams,

In this year’s project we are working with optogenetics again. Because some of our members already worked in the team from last year and because one of our professors is working in this field, we are very fortunate to profit from their expertise. Of course there are a couple of other teams who are working with optogenetics as well and might not have an expert at their university. That’s why we want to share our knowledge with you! On September 1st we will be hosting a seminar at our university dealing with an introduction into optogenetics. This includes learning about the various optogenetic switches as well as working with them in the lab, and also building or obtaining a light box. We invite everybody to join who is able to come to our university. Of course we don’t expect you to fly halfway across the planet, so we will also document the seminar and organize a skype-conference for interested parties.

If you want to come in person, we can provide you with accommodations.

If you are interested and want to join us please let us know by the 21st of August.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Kind regards,
iGEM Team Düsseldorf Cologne 2017!

28. A worldwide platform

Team: UESTC-China
Team Location: Cheng Du，China
Contact Information: 626750489@qq.com
Collaboration description:
We want to provide a platform where we can mutually understand our projects and even exchange our opinions and suggestions on them. Besides, on this platform we can also provide some local data to improve our mutual projects, thus we can expand our sample range to the whole world. Please send us an email!

27. Questionnaire towards health care and liver cancer

Team: BIT
Team Location: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
Contact Information: igem_bit@outlook.com
Collaboration description:
Hello Dear iGEMers!

We are students from Beijing Institute of Technology. Our team IGEM_BIT is now carrying on a liver cancer-related project.In order to make our project better and practical, and we need your help.

Please answer the questions in this questionnaire carefully and authentically. Any personal information you give in our questionnaire would not be leaked. We really appreciate your help! Thank you for your sincere cooperation!

Click here for the survey. (URL: http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GR36M7W)

26. Searchable iGEM information file

Team: MIT
Team Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Contact Information: MIT iGEM Team: igem-2017-students@mit.edu Qianchang (Dennis) Wang: wangqc@mit.edu
Collaboration description:
Hi iGEM 2017, we have gathered information from all past and current iGEM teams about their projects. This CSV will enable you to search for keywords and identify potential collaborators. Feel free to ask us any question.

If you would like a copy of this file, please email us and we can send it to you!

25. Sharing Our Recombinase

Team: Edinburgh UG
Team Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contact Information: igem2017edinburgh AT gmail DOT com or Tweet us AT EdiGEM2017
Collaboration description: We would like to reach out to any team that is using recombinases our would consider using recombinases. We can provide you with several novel recombinase parts and target sites. This would hopefully provide valuable resources to any project taking advantage of recombinases such as Cre, while further demonstrating the utility of the parts designed as part of our own project.

24. Biological Material Transport Survey

Team: Amazonas_Brazil
Team Location: Federal University of Amazonas/ State University of Amazonas
Contact Information: Amazonas Team - igem.ufam@gmail.com
Collaboration description:
Dear iGEM Teams,

We want to know how the importation/exportation of biological material works in your country. This survey will only take a few minutes and we'll appreciate if you can collab with us!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVs0mqaAbDjhk0OFFocGcUCAsAKQ7zkxy_vOoaWrK3ME_saw/viewform

23. iGEM Goes Green

Team: TU_Dresden
Team Location: TU Dresden, Germany
Contact Information: Email: igem2017@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Facebook: iGEM Goes Green
Instagram: igem_goes_green
Collaboration description:
Hello iGEM participants,

This year the iGEM Team of TU Dresden started the iGEM goes green initiative to encourage other teams to consider the environmental implications of their projects. We investigate the ecological footprint of our work as a team, and we want to find ways to reduce and compensate for it.

Watch our trailer video: YouTube Video

Becoming a part of iGEM goes green is fairly simple. All you’ve got to do is:
1. Dedicate a subpage of your team’s wiki to your efforts towards a sustainable participation in the competition.
2. Send us the link.
3. Get the go green logo in return and place it on your wiki.
4. Read our GoGreenGuide and do whatever your team can afford to shape your team’s participation in iGEM in a green way.

GoGreenGuide: https://github.com/igem-dresden/GoGreenGuide/releases/tag/v1.0

Our GoGreenGuide is written for other iGEM teams and anyone else who is interested in sustainable scientific bench work. We want to inspire anyone who was not interested before to dive into the topic.
Interested in taking part and collaborating with us? Get in contact with us! We are looking forward to hear from you!

22. Help with using cellocad to simulate our project

Team: Team AshesiGhana
Team Location: Ashesi University College, Ghana
Contact Information: David Sasu, david.sasu@ashesi.edu.gh
Collaboration description: Please we would like help with using Cellocad to simulate our project and also interpreting the output of the simulation using the same software.

21. Podcast Series "Science out of lab"

Team: Copenhagen
Team Location: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact Information: igemku2017@gmail.com
Collaboration description:Through the podcast series, we want to bring science into a social, ethical and environmental context by interviewing, e.g researchers, professors, journalists, industry representatives, public. Our target audience is nonprofessionals and experts alike. Possible topics would be in relation to synthetic biology (eg, DIYbio, ethics, gene drive, design etc).

We would like to go global and involve experts and opinions from all over the world. This is where you can come along! If you have ideas of possible individuals (and intriguing topics) for the podcast from your local/national community and would like to be part of educating and spreading the word to the public, then please write to us.

20. Synthetic Biology Podcast Mini-Series

Team: Toronto
Team Location: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Contact Information: Toronto team - igem [AT] g.skule.ca
Collaboration description:

The podcast aims to explore how synthetic biology intersects with different disciplines (ranging from engineering, law, business to the arts) by engaging with people active in the field. Our target audience is the general public, ie. people who don’t necessarily have a scientific background but who are curious. We invite you to participate in our mini-series, where we aim to showcase the projects of different iGEM teams through short (~5min) episodes. Please contact us if you are interested and we will get back to you with more information regarding which questions will be asked, and about how the podcast will be recorded and edited.

19. Translation Center

Team: KU Leuven
Team Location: KU Leuven - Leuven, Belgium
Contact Information: KU Leuven team - igem2017 [AT] kuleuven.be
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM-participants

We think that science could be more accessible to the public if it was explained in their mother tongue. Therefore, as part of our collaboration commitment, we propose a translation service where teams can send in their project description and other teams can translate it into their native language.

If you want to be part of this collaboration, you can upload your project description in the Central Hub (https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B2T1XzPGc8giSl9meHQ1cDlYSEU). We propose that you write the description in English and make it understandable for people with minimal background knowledge. Try to translate for as many participating teams as possible. When you translated a text, please sign with your team name and language.

To let us know that you are participating, please send an email to igem2017 [AT] kuleuven.be.

18. Tasty-Style Short Lab Technique Videos

Team: East_Chapel_Hill
Team Location:East Chapel Hill High School
Chapel Hill, NC USA
Contact Information: Cecilia Lee, student leader (chaelee1125 [AT] gmail.com) or East Chapel Hill iGEM Team (echhsigem [AT]gmail.com)
Collaboration description:

We are looking for teams to collaborate with to create a series of short videos in the style of the Tasty/Tastemade Food Videos! They will be roughly 1-minute long videos on any lab techniques. The collection of the unique short videos will be posted on YouTube for other teams and the synthetic biology community to learn from!
You can fill out the interest google form here: https://goo.gl/forms/wp7X4AmTsLOaGjSA3

17. Sweaty Photo Challenge

Team: Aalto-Helsinki
Team Location: Aalto University/University of Helsinki, Finland
Contact Information: Our Facebook page or our email team[AT]aaltohelsinki.com
Collaboration description:

SWEAT TO PROTECT!

The surface of our skin contains antimicrobial peptides that protect it from outside threats, like bacteria and fungi.
One of these peptides is called dermcidin and it is naturally present in our sweat.
So when you sweat, you increase your protection against infections!

We are asking other iGEM teams to take part in our sweat challenge to promote the protective properties of sweat!
Post a picture of your team doing something sweaty with a caption and we will award the most creative and hilarious one at the Giant Jamboree.
Remember to tag our social media account (instagram: [AT] aaltohelsinki_igem, Facebook [AT] aaltohelsinki and Twitter: [AT] aaltohelsinki) and use the hashtag #iGEMsweatchallenge!

16. Survey from iGEM Pasteur Paris : Air pollution

Team: Pasteur Paris
Team Location: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Contact Information: igem.pasteur [AT] gmail.com, Facebook, Twitter
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEMers,

We are working on air pollution and we need your help to better target this issue. Please help us by answering and sharing the following survey :)

Do you believe the quality of the air you breath should be a major concern for all of us? Help us improve it by answering this short survey (3-4 minutes top). Thank you in advance for your help and your time!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLIBs-zFTtTuwKh9OhkP_pwlnGejfJ2TiNnL8R5S9pWA1A9w/viewform

Tu te sens concerné par la qualité de l'air que tu respires ? Aide nous à l'améliorer en remplissant le questionnaire ci-dessous (3-4 minutes maximum). Merci d'avance pour ton aide et ton temps!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJazEXL1hn8g2QR-Qftpc07y1qfuksnI1gkDBVXgyrxMN9FQ/viewform

您认为改善空气质量应该是我们重要的目标吗？为改善空气质量出一分力，填写我们的调查问卷（只需3到4分钟）。谢谢您的时间和对我们的支持。
https://sojump.com/jq/14175628.aspx

15. Biological themed card game

Team: Franconia
Team Location: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Contact Information: email: igem.erlangen [AT] gmail.com; twitter: [AT] iGEM_Franconia
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM community!

This year we are developing a biological themed card game. Instead of doing this all alone, we would like to include other iGEM teams and together make the game as entertaining, interesting, profound and international as possible! Therefore we are looking for teams who would help by:

- developing one or more new cards. These can be pathogens (like viruses or bacteria), cures (e.g. antibiotic, cough linctus), preventatives (e.g. vaccinations, desinfectant) or just anything that influences human health. The cards should include the name, properties and a short description.

and/or:

- translating the basic deck of cards into their national language, so that the game can be played all around the globe.

If you are interested in doing one and/or the other, please tell us before the 1st of August. We would then send you more precise information and some of the already existing cards. Also don't hesitate to contact us, if you have any questions about it!

We are very much looking forward to this and would be delighted if many of you join!

Best regards,

iGEM Franconia

14. Survey for all High School Teams

Team: CLSB-UK
Team Location: City of London School, London, UK
Contact Information: Abe Tolley, (email) a.tolley(at)cityoflondonschool.org.uk
Collaboration description:

The CLS iGEM team is trying to create a guide with advice for high school teams on how to get into iGEM, along with helpful tips and some Dos and Don'ts. Entering iGEM can be a daunting task for a high school - without funding, experience or expertise -but we hope this guide will help facilitate new teams and allow them to succeed in their project. We are looking for as many High School Teams to complete our short survey, so we can provide the best advice possible to new teams - with your help, we can help spread iGEM to more high schools around the world. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey - it would be very much appreciated.

The survey link is: https://goo.gl/forms/MYDzIEdOqpVTlRwn2.

CLSB-UK team

13. Survey from UNebraska-Lincoln

Team: UNebraska-Lincoln
Team Location:
Contact Information:
Collaboration description:

Hello 2017 iGEM teams! Our team this year is working to inhibit methane production in cattle. You can learn more at: http://igem.unl.edu/ or https://2017.igem.org/Team:UNebraska-Lincoln.

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.

Please follow this link to access the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/A3IIaD00d59Ydzx83

We would really appreciate your time and response! Thank you!!

UNL iGEM Team

12. Global Compilation of Expert Perspectives on Biomanufacturing

Team: Harvard
Team Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Contact Information: Email harvardigemteam [AT] gmail.com, Facebook, Twitter ([AT]harvardigemteam)
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM community,

What would happen if you introduced your work to the profit-driven, tightly-regulated world outside of iGEM? As individual teams, we might be able to get a few expert opinions on the implications of our work, but what if we could standardize and share the perspectives and advice we pick up along the way?

We want to explore the status of biomanufacturing (that is, using biological systems to produce substances on a commercial scale) as a growing industry around the world. This collaboration effort is relevant to almost any iGEM team, but it is especially relevant to teams on the therapeutic and manufacturing tracks. We are looking for teams interested in assembling a catalog of perspectives on biomanufacturing from leaders in business, public policy, biomedicine, environmental science and material science around the world.

We hope to develop a standard set of inquiries and conduct interviews to foster a more thorough understanding of the field of biomanufacturing around the world. We’ll then compile the information we receive, allowing teams to get a better contextualization of their work in the world. We’re looking for teams to contribute to this set of inquiries, and we’re looking for teams to implement them as well.

If you would like to get involved with this effort, please email us or reach out on Facebook or Twitter!

Best Wishes,
Harvard iGEM 2017

11. Short tutorial videos on laboratory methods on YouTube

Team: Tübingen
Team Location: Tübingen, Germany
Contact Information: igem@ifib.uni-tuebingen.de
Collaboration description:

The concept idea is to create and manage a YouTube platform on which collaborating teams post different kinds of short lab tutorials and link them to their unique iGem project. The videos should promote the main idea and diversity of iGem in the field of synthetic biology.
The YouTube channel will reach out to everybody who is not yet aware of iGEM and its possibilities and will consequently encourage and inspire future iGEM teams.

A condensed YouTube channel will work as a network and multiply the reach of iGEM teams’ social media presence.

10. Virtual Meetups

Team: Vilnius-Lithuania
Team Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
Contact Information: You can contact us on our facebook or write an email to laurynas.karpus [AT] gmail.com, also you can find us on twitter! ([AT] vilnius_igem)
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM community,
we are Vilnius-Lithuania team, and we're interested in virtual meetups to exchange the ideas that our teams are working on and to give and receive critique and other information about our projects.
We want to hold as many virtual meetups as we can until Giant Jamboree.

You can read about the project we're working on at our wiki - https://2017.igem.org/Team:Vilnius-Lithuania

9. Newsletter and Inquiry about Challenges for SynBio Teams Worldwide

Team: Calgary
Team Location: University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
Contact Information: igem.calgary [AT] gmail.com
Collaboration description:

Hi everyone!! The Calgary team is in the process of organizing a Canadian iGEM Newsletter. If any international teams are interested in participating as a guest, please email us! Also, we are interested in the challenges iGEM teams have, such as funding, supervision, and other resources. Feel free to fill out this form (submissions can be kept confidential if preferred): https://goo.gl/forms/BDAqemEe5kLpie8F3

The Calgary project this year is using E. coli to convert human solid waste into bioplastics on Mars. Please do contact us if you see potential for wet or dry lab collaborations!

Thank you,
The 2017 iGEM Calgary Team

8. Survey about cholera

Team: INSA-UPS_France
Team Location: Toulouse, France
Contact Information: igem.toulouse [AT] gmail.com
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM Community, the INSA-UPS_France team created a survey dealing with Vibrio cholerae. In order to get an interesting statistical study we need as much answer as possible.
Here is the survey: https://goo.gl/forms/nzqnbNGvTheeHdDz2 Thank you!

Best Regards,
INSA-UPS_France 2017

7. Foundational Advances Collaboration

Team: SVCE_CHENNAI
Team Location: Chennai, India
Contact Information: Email at igem2017svce [AT] gmail.com or Twitter [AT] igemsvce
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM Teams,

Our project this year is based on temperature and pH regulated genetic circuits. We are also focusing on a method to convert translational regulation to transcriptional regulation. If any other teams are working on something similar we would love to collaborate with you.

Also this year we are working on machine learning that can be applied to the registry of standard biological parts. The software faction of our project will involve building, training and testing a supervised machine learning algorithm on the collection of promoters in the iGEM registry. This algorithm when trained with sufficient data would be capable of identifying novel promoters merely by having the sequence as an input. If any team wants to characterize a sigma 70 promoter as a part of their project, they can use our software. Just email us and we'll do it for you.

Looking forward to hearing from any teams interested!

Warm Regards,
iGEM Team SVCE_CHENNAI 2017

6. Team collaboration spreadsheet?

Team: RHIT
Team Location: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana, United States
Contact Information: Email (Preferred): yangy6 [AT] rose-hulman.edu
Collaboration description:

Hi teams,

We were thinking about constructing a spreadsheet to help organize team lab collaborations if you think that this would be useful and would like to help us develop it further, we would like your input.

Thank you,
iGEM Team RHIT 2017

5. Synthetic Biology / Microfluidics Survey

Team: Boston University Hardware
Team Location: Boston University, Boston, MA (USA)
Contact Information: Email (preferred): samperid [AT] bu.edu, or Twitter [AT] iGEMHWBU
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM Community,

This is a request for ANY iGEM team. This year, the BU Hardware team is working on an archive that will store different microfluidic chip designs and protocols that we develop. In order to better understand how we can structure this archive to help the iGEM/Synbio community, we have created a short survey that we would like iGEM teams to fill out! You can find the survey at: https://goo.gl/forms/QcGws30fPAcdPi4p1. Thanks!

Kind Regards,
2017 BU Hardware

4. Looking for a flow cytometer, and offering the use of varied engineering facilities/programs/knowledge

Team: RHIT
Team Location: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana, United States
Contact Information:
Collaboration description: This collaboration is now fulfilled!

3. Lactococcus collaboration

Team: Groningen (University of Groningen) 
Team Location: The Netherlands
Contact Information: igem.2017.groningen [AT] gmail.com
Collaboration description:

Dear IGEM community,

This is a request for all IGEM teams working with Lactococcus lactis. As you probably already know L. lactis is an important organism for the fermentation industry and quite easy to modify, making it a promising IGEM chassis. But one disadvantage of L. lactis is its selectivity for promotors and plasmids. Although on the IGEM site many information about the functioning of promotors in either E. coli or B. subtilis can be found this is not the case for our organism.

Therefore we propose to collaborate with all IGEM teams working with L. lactis to make a database of existing or new promotors and ribosome bininding sites (RBS) and their effectiveness in L. lactis. We will make a standardized protocol to test the promotor strength using sfGFP (biobrick BBa_K1365020). For the database either existing promotors could be characterized or you could contribute new promotors and RBS, which are not yet in the iGEM distribution kit.

We think this collaboration will be of great advantage to all teams working with L. lactis now and in the future. So we hope to hear from you!

Kind regards,
iGEM team Groningen

2. Virtual Meetup

Team: NYU Abu Dhabi
Team Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Contact Information: Team Facebook page or email at nyuad.igem [AT] nyu.edu.
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM Teams,

Being located in the Middle East, we have found that there are very limited resources available for rising scientists. We are fortunate to have well-stocked lab and involved PI’s aiding us in our journey, but we recognize that not all teams in this region are able to benefit from feedback due to the disparate spread of iGEM teams. Hence, we would like to reach out and hold a virtual meetup for other iGEM teams wherein we can present and receive feedback on our work as well as troubleshoot some problems we may face. This would be organized via Skype and by time zone.

If you are interested in joining, please let us know as soon as possible! We will organize a meeting as soon as we have enough interest, and we are open to holding multiple meetups over the course of the year.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Warmly,
iGEM Team NYU Abu Dhabi 2017

1. Postcards!

Team: Düsseldorf Cologne
Team Location: Germany
Contact Information: You can contact us via Twitter @IGEM17DUS_CGN, on Facebook, or send us an email: igem[AT]hhu.de .
Collaboration description:

Dear iGEM Teams,

As we all know iGEM is not only about labwork but also about bringing synthetic biology closer to the public. To do so last year’s iGEM team of the Heinrich- Heine- University of Duesseldorf started a campaign to promote synthetic biology in public using self-designed postcards. Seven other German teams decided to join us and the postcard exchange was a real success. Thrilled about the outcome of last year’s postcards, this year we would like to reach out even further and spread iGEM postcards all over Europe! The idea is that every participating team designs a postcard which shows an image related to synthetic biology, maybe even your topic, on the front and a small informational text on the back. Afterwards a batch of each team’s postcard is exchanged so that every team can share postcards from all over Europe with the people in their neighborhood and at public events etc. If you want to check out last year’s campaign, visit the wiki of Duesseldorf 2016: Postcards.

Postcards:

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

If you are interested and want to join us please let us know until the 30th of June, so we can figure out how many postcards each team should print!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Kind regards,
iGEM Team Düsseldorf Cologne 2017!