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: Email (Preferred): yangy6 [AT] rose-hulman.edu. You can also contact us via Twitter [AT] RHITiGEM2017 or Facebook
Collaboration description:

Hello iGEM teams,

First, we request to collaborate with a team which has access to a flow cytometer and related equipment. Our team wishes to use the flow cytometer to analyze several of our constructs as well as compare these results with those from our plate reader.

To offer, we have access to varied engineering facilities and programs including the optical engineering (physics) labs, Solidworks and 3D-printing capabilities. Additionally, our team can provide aid in web design and complicated math modeling.

Please don't hesitate to email us if you have any special request on the use of any engineering facilities!

Best Regard,
iGEM Team RHIT 2017

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!