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Collaborations

Kent

For our Interlab studies, we asked the Kent iGEM team to help us out because we do not have the equipment to accurately obtain the necessary readings. Laulwa Al Salloum, Dan Brunkow and Laurens Heling from the Kent team offered us a lab to work in as well helping and mentoring Mateo Hoare and Nikita Shukan from the Judd_UK iGEM team with the new equipment including using Gilson Pipettes and a plate reader. The Kent team were unsuccessful in transforming the DNA provided by iGEM into competent E. coli DH5 alpha and, so, as part of a collaborations effort, we offered our Interlab DNA (Distribution Kit Plate 6) for them to work with.

Oxford

After meeting at the UK team meet-up, the Oxford team introduced our modelling team to mass action kinetics, along with the hill equation and some basic Matlab codes as an introduction to programming in Matlab.

CLSB

We met with CLSB to discuss wiki development and modelling. For the modelling, they introduced the team to ordinary differential equations and how they can be used to represent a series of reactions. They also gave advice during the process, checking over our analytical solutions, as well as our numerical methods in Matlab.