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On July 17th, 2017, our annual oGEM meeting took place. Bringing together all of the post-secondary iGEM teams, the day allowed for discussion of our projects, our future, our strengths, and our weaknesses. While they were not at the center of the talk, surely but slowly common worries were brought forth, none of them relating to our projects at all but to our own selves: how do we even begin an iGEM team? How do we manage one that exists? How do we continue one that graduating students leave to us?
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Throughout the years, this running theme of looking at our iGEM teams not through the lens of our projects and work but through the very essence of them, which is to say the people who make up iGEM in the first place, is something that has oft been pushed back and neglected. At the meeting that day, we realized that surprisingly, none of us were in the same stage of development in our growth as iGEM teams. Two teams just started that year; others had come back after some years of hiatus or had only been established for a number of years. Then, there were the teams that had been established as the forefront of oGEM, having been constants for years in this field. Yet, we all had our concerns about how to manage, grow, and develop our teams to be better. Despite our differences in experiences and years, or perhaps because of that, we came to realize that we could help each other build better, more solid foundations by exchanging the knowledge we had accumulated over the years. Thus, this manual came to be, out of a desire to be able to share and pass down that knowledge to all of us, and to you.
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This <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HmQf96NWh_2H52UEvRzk1BzAAK9EFuF7CQOqD2ejMOg/edit?usp=sharing">manual</a> will always remain open to edits, revisions, suggestions, comments, and questions. It is in our hopes that this manual grows as our teams will, and that what we have learned through this amazing journey in camaraderie and synthetic biology will always be available for those who need or want it.
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Thank you, and good luck with your endeavours in iGEM. You’ll be amazing.
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<p>The Ontario iGEM chapters collaborating on this venture jointly by McMasterU, are: <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:U_of_Guelph">U of Guelph</a>, <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Toronto">Toronto</a>, with entry contributions from <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Waterloo">Waterloo</a>. The finished manual will then be distributed both in print and online to any chapters interested across Ontario and Canada.
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<p>Below is a list of the topics covered in the oGEM Manual, compiled by our Human Practices member Aline-Claire Huynh</p>
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<p><strong>Section 1: The Process</strong></p>
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<li>Starting Your Team </li>
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<li>What Do We Want Our Team to Look Like?</li>
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<li>How Do We Register Our Team to iGEM?</li>
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<li>How Many People Should We Aim to Recruit?</li>
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<li>How Do We Hire the Right People?</li>
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<li>Managing Your Current Team</li>
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<li>Setting Team Expectations and Roles</li>
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<li>Administration</li>
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<li>Team Structures, Positions, and [Hierarchies]</li>
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<li>Training New Members</li>
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<li>You Said How Much Paperwork?</li>
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<li>Communicating and Collaborating with Your Team</li>
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<li>How Should Execs Keep in Touch?</li>
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<li>How Should Each Team as a Whole Communicate?</li>
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<li>How Should Each Subteam Communicate?</li>
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<li>How Can All the Different Subteams Effectively and Efficiently Communicate with Each Other?</li>
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<li>How Often Should We Communicate?</li>
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<li>Developing Your Team</li>
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<li>Mentorship</li>
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<li>Transferring Knowledge</li>
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<li>Team Bonding</li>
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<li>Member Development</li>
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<li>Growing Your Team</li>
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<li>Marketing on Campus to Other Students</li>
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<li>Keeping Your Social Media Updated and Shareable</li>
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<li>Fundraisers and Awareness Campaigns</li>
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<li>Troubleshooting Your Team</li>
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<li>How to Prevent Setbacks as Much as Possible</li>
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<li>How to Identify Minor Setbacks</li>
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<li>How to Identify Major Setbacks</li>
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<li>How to Handle Deadlines, Individually</li>
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<li>How to Handle Deadlines, as a Team</li>
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<li>How to Learn from Our Mistakes</li>
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<li>Tips, Tricks, and Troubles for the Meta</li>
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<p><strong>Section 2: The Project</strong><p>
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<li>The Basics</li>
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<li>What Are the Roles of Each Subteam?</li>
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<li>What Do Our Timelines and Deadlines Look Like?</li>
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<li>The Project</li>
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<li>How Do We Decide on a Project?</li>
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<li>How Do We Even Recruit a PI?</li>
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<li>How Do We Get Lab Space?</li>
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<li>Where Can We Find People to Teach Us How to Do Assays and Other Science?</li>
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<li>How Can We Get Our PI to Believe in Us?</li>
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<li>The Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Lab</li>
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<li>What are standard assays that we should use for ______?</li>
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<li>The Mysterious Dry Lab</li>
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<li>What Are the Most Important or Prominent Languages I Should Learn?</li>
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<li>What Are Some Programs That Can Help for X?</li>
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<li>Practices on Humans (or People, Policies, and Practices)</li>
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<li>Understanding Synthetic Biology As Seen by the Public Eye</li>
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<li>How Do We Explain SynBio to the Laymen?</li>
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<li>Understanding the Science Behind SynBio Policies and Guidelines</li>
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<li>Emailing Stakeholders and Interested Parties</li>
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<li>Meeting with Stakeholders and Interested Parties</li>
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<li>How to Reach Out to the Local Community</li>
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<li>Organizing Workshops, Awareness Campaigns, and Fundraisers</li>
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<li>Fundings, Sponsors, and Money Issues</li>
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<li>How Do We Apply for/Get Funding and/or Grants?</li>
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<li>Who Should We Look for as Sponsors/Partners?</li>
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<li>Who Will Give Us Those Sweet Free Samples?</li>
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<li>How Do We Capitalize on Resources?</li>
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<li>The Wiki</li>
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<li>What Is So Important About This Wiki, Anyway?</li>
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<li>What Is the Wiki Freeze?</li>
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<li>Why Are the Other Teams’ Wikis So Pretty?</li>
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<li>The Competition</li>
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<li>Medal Requirements</li>
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<li>Collaborations</li>
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<li>The Jamboree</li>
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<li>Tips, Tricks, and Troubles for the Usual</li>
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Revision as of 16:43, 30 October 2017

Interlab Collaborations

This page will contain information for your Interlab Collaborations work, which you can also use to nominate your team for the Best Interlab Collaboration page. To make things easier, we have combined the Gold medal page with the Best Integrated Human Practices page since we expect the work to overlap considerably.

iGEM teams are unique and leading the field because they "go beyond the lab" to imagine their projects in a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.

Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest.

For more information, please see the Human Practices page.

Gold Medal Criterion #1

Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project.

Best Integrated Human Practices Special Prize

To compete for the Best Integrated Human Practices prize, please describe your work on this page and also fill out the description on the judging form. You must also delete the message box on the top of this page to be eligible for this prize.

Inspiration

Here are a few examples of excellent Integrated Human Practices work:


Collaboration with University of Calgary iGEM

Calgary


oGEM Manual of iGEM Teams


On July 17th, 2017, our annual oGEM meeting took place. Bringing together all of the post-secondary iGEM teams, the day allowed for discussion of our projects, our future, our strengths, and our weaknesses. While they were not at the center of the talk, surely but slowly common worries were brought forth, none of them relating to our projects at all but to our own selves: how do we even begin an iGEM team? How do we manage one that exists? How do we continue one that graduating students leave to us?

Throughout the years, this running theme of looking at our iGEM teams not through the lens of our projects and work but through the very essence of them, which is to say the people who make up iGEM in the first place, is something that has oft been pushed back and neglected. At the meeting that day, we realized that surprisingly, none of us were in the same stage of development in our growth as iGEM teams. Two teams just started that year; others had come back after some years of hiatus or had only been established for a number of years. Then, there were the teams that had been established as the forefront of oGEM, having been constants for years in this field. Yet, we all had our concerns about how to manage, grow, and develop our teams to be better. Despite our differences in experiences and years, or perhaps because of that, we came to realize that we could help each other build better, more solid foundations by exchanging the knowledge we had accumulated over the years. Thus, this manual came to be, out of a desire to be able to share and pass down that knowledge to all of us, and to you.

This manual will always remain open to edits, revisions, suggestions, comments, and questions. It is in our hopes that this manual grows as our teams will, and that what we have learned through this amazing journey in camaraderie and synthetic biology will always be available for those who need or want it.

Thank you, and good luck with your endeavours in iGEM. You’ll be amazing.

The Ontario iGEM chapters collaborating on this venture jointly by McMasterU, are: U of Guelph, Toronto, with entry contributions from Waterloo. The finished manual will then be distributed both in print and online to any chapters interested across Ontario and Canada.


Below is a list of the topics covered in the oGEM Manual, compiled by our Human Practices member Aline-Claire Huynh

    Section 1: The Process

  • Starting Your Team
  • What Do We Want Our Team to Look Like?
  • How Do We Register Our Team to iGEM?
  • How Many People Should We Aim to Recruit?
  • How Do We Hire the Right People?
  • Managing Your Current Team
  • Setting Team Expectations and Roles
  • Administration
  • Team Structures, Positions, and [Hierarchies]
  • Training New Members
  • You Said How Much Paperwork?
  • Communicating and Collaborating with Your Team
  • How Should Execs Keep in Touch?
  • How Should Each Team as a Whole Communicate?
  • How Should Each Subteam Communicate?
  • How Can All the Different Subteams Effectively and Efficiently Communicate with Each Other?
  • How Often Should We Communicate?
  • Developing Your Team
  • Mentorship
  • Transferring Knowledge
  • Team Bonding
  • Member Development
  • Growing Your Team
  • Marketing on Campus to Other Students
  • Keeping Your Social Media Updated and Shareable
  • Fundraisers and Awareness Campaigns
  • Troubleshooting Your Team
  • How to Prevent Setbacks as Much as Possible
  • How to Identify Minor Setbacks
  • How to Identify Major Setbacks
  • How to Handle Deadlines, Individually
  • How to Handle Deadlines, as a Team
  • How to Learn from Our Mistakes
  • Tips, Tricks, and Troubles for the Meta

    • Section 2: The Project

  • The Basics
  • What Are the Roles of Each Subteam?
  • What Do Our Timelines and Deadlines Look Like?
  • The Project
  • How Do We Decide on a Project?
  • How Do We Even Recruit a PI?
  • How Do We Get Lab Space?
  • Where Can We Find People to Teach Us How to Do Assays and Other Science?
  • How Can We Get Our PI to Believe in Us?
  • The Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Lab
  • What are standard assays that we should use for ______?
  • The Mysterious Dry Lab
  • What Are the Most Important or Prominent Languages I Should Learn?
  • What Are Some Programs That Can Help for X?
  • Practices on Humans (or People, Policies, and Practices)
  • Understanding Synthetic Biology As Seen by the Public Eye
  • How Do We Explain SynBio to the Laymen?
  • Understanding the Science Behind SynBio Policies and Guidelines
  • Emailing Stakeholders and Interested Parties
  • Meeting with Stakeholders and Interested Parties
  • How to Reach Out to the Local Community
  • Organizing Workshops, Awareness Campaigns, and Fundraisers
  • Fundings, Sponsors, and Money Issues
  • How Do We Apply for/Get Funding and/or Grants?
  • Who Should We Look for as Sponsors/Partners?
  • Who Will Give Us Those Sweet Free Samples?
  • How Do We Capitalize on Resources?
  • The Wiki
  • What Is So Important About This Wiki, Anyway?
  • What Is the Wiki Freeze?
  • Why Are the Other Teams’ Wikis So Pretty?
  • The Competition
  • Medal Requirements
  • Collaborations
  • The Jamboree
  • Tips, Tricks, and Troubles for the Usual