Description

Through our iGEM journey, we made very good use of the collaborations between us and many iGEM teams across the world exchanging science, information, a lot of experience, and spreading our project in faraway societies as they do in ours.

Alzheimer’s book

As a part of our plan to spread knowledge about Alzheimer’s Disease, we wrote a diary-like book that talks about someone who just knew that his mother suffers from Alzheimer’s and that he might have the risk factors as well! The book is filled with lots of information about the disease, risk factors, and methods of disease prevention.
The second section is about the MIND diet, a diet for brain health that reduces the risk of brain disorders and memory loss. The third section is a detailed treatment protocol including what the patient's family should do. We didn’t stop here, but we decided to contact as many teams as we can so they can translate and share it on their social media to reach their societies, adding local recipes from their country following the MIND diet. 

Alzheimer’s Video

This video was another way to try and reach out to more people to spread knowledge about AD and let the message be known, that there is a team out there working on such disease. This was done with the help of our iGEMers friends as it is a multilingual video where every team recorded the same script in their language with English narration and many subtitle files. This video was done with the help of teams: Linkoping_Sweden – Korhs – Patras Patras_Medicine

miniGEM competition

As explained on the human practices page, we held a mini iGEM competition to make a small simulation of the big iGEM competition and throughout the competition day, we decided to communicate with our iGEMers friends so they can be part of the day with us and give a small presentation about their projects to the attendees which were more than 100 college student and professors.
We also made sure to invite the African ambassadors, so they can inspire the future iGEMers and let them see what iGEM community looks like. We are grateful that they were there and very thankful to the teams attending that event.
Team: Makerere - Patras_Medicine

Linkoping_Sweden

We met on different occasions to explain each other’s projects and share our experience in the Wet Lab.

- They participated in our multi-language video about AD.
- They translated our diary book (Zekra) into their language.

AFCM-Egypt

- We attended the African meetup organized by them and presented our project there in front of many Egyptian iGEMers including previous teams, teams participating this year, upcoming participants, iGEM ambassadors, mentors, and professors. It was a good chance to spread awareness about AD on further grounds than our university.

Patras

-We met through online meetings sharing each project's ideas.

-They presented their project in our big miniGEM event.
- We translated their synthetic biology comic book for kids in our native language Arabic.

Patras_Medicine

- We met in an online meeting, discussing the ideas and sharing our dry lab experience.
- They asked us to translate questions in their game into Arabic and add some questions to it about AD, questions in their game into our own language, in addition to adding some questions about AD.

We sent them a survey about AD to fill and spread it in their community.

They participated in our AD awareness video with Greek language.
We took part in their video about iGEM, explaining why we participated in iGEM, our iGEM project track ,and how we implemented synthetic biology in our solution.
They presented their project in our mini-iGEM competition.
They translated our diary book (Zekra) in their language.

Makerere_Uganda

Makerere team has collaborated with us on different occasions, they translated our book (Zekra) into their language (Kiswahili) and presented their project in our miniGEM competition, held at Cairo university.

QUEENS, McGill, Cornell and Costa Rica

- We helped them with their bacteria book for the public. By creating pages about our favorite bacteria, considering that this book will let common people know more about bacteria, with a small intro about bacterial types, how to differentiate between useful and harmful types, and the methods by which we can make use of it or avoid it.

Lambert team

The collaboration with team Lambert was about healthy local African food. We provided them with African Egyptian recipes and seasonal fruits which most Egyptians love. These include barbary fig, grilled corn, ghee, and dehydrogenated oils. We also provided them with the link for an episode of a large broadcast in the middle east comparing the effect of meals on blood pressure between Kenyan family and American family.

CCU_Taiwan

Aiming to participate in public awareness to help people protect themselves from chronic and hard diseases all over the world, each with their country's local recipes that are full of nutritious elements.

So we engaged in CCU_Taiwan;s cookbook which contains Cardiovascular disease (CVD)-free recipes from different countries. And we represented the CVD-free recipes from Egypt. Also, they translated our diary book (Zekra) into their language (Chinese -Mandarin).

Aix-Marseille

They translated our diary book (Zekra) in their language (French).

IISER-Pune2_India

They asked us to fill out their survey for awareness about Dengue fever. They also filled out our survey about AD.

IISER-Pune-India

We filled out their survey about food security, waterlogging, and GMOs.

iGEM Thessaloniki

Asked our team to describe to them how women participate in STEM in our country, as an example of a middle eastern country, and they helped us with some errors on the wiki we could solve with their advice.