Collaborations
iGEM competition brings to the advancement of synthetic biology and education, this requires collaboration and co-operation in the community.
Chassis registry with the help of some iGEM teams
Part of our project includes the idea of diversifying the chassis that can be used at iGEM. But what is a good chassis? To answer this reflection, we have solicited the other iGEM teams through a questionnaire that everyone can still complete.
The iGEM teams or organizations contributing to our reflection are:
- Lund, in Sweden
- Wageningen_UR, in The Netherlands
- Groningen, in The Netherlands
- Duesseldorf, in Germany
- SUNY_Oneonta, in North America
- PuiChing_Macau, in Macao
- NTHU_Taiwan, in Taiwan
- Aachen, in Germany
- IISc-Bengaluru, in India
- Ionis_Paris, in France
Please find below the first results of this survey (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Results of our survey “What makes a good chassis?”. Based on 11 answers to the survey (2022/09/21).
Handbook in collaboration with Lund Team:
Lund Team contacted us to collaborate with them to create a synthetic biology handbook. As the world of synthetic biology is growing, we decided to make a handbook in order to help anyone that would like to start doing Synthetic Biology in the future.
The project is to create an eBook accessible to everyone, that would give some useful definitions and advice to do synthetic biology. It contains the definition of synthetic biology, the basic knowledge of microbiology, our projects' descriptions, a security part, and a dictionary.
We received the contribution of some teams: the Chalmers-Gothenburg team, the Stockholm team, the Uppsala team and the Aalto-Helsinki team. Thank you to the Lund Team for asking us to be a part of this collaboration!!!
Meetings
• BioSynSys
We participated with other French iGEM teams in the BioSynSys symposium on synthetic and systems biology in the Learning Planet Institute (12-14 September 2022, Paris - link).
- GO_Paris-Saclay
- Evry_Paris-Saclay
- Ionis_Paris
- Sorbonne_U_Paris
- INSA_Lyon1
- Paris_Bettencourt
• Modeling meeting - Jambodelling Sorbonne 2022
On the 24th and 25th of September, we met the iGem teams from Sorbonne and Ionis in the parisian Sorbonne Pierre and Marie Curie University during a meeting about modeling. We exchanged about our respective project's models and attended conferences given by professors, Phd students and Master's degree interns.
• iGEM French team meeting at Toulouse
The iGEM team in Toulouse organized a meeting with all the French teams to discuss the first ideas of our projects.
It was a "mini-jamboree", which lasted 2-3 days in July, from the 7 to the 9th. The goals were to prepare ourselves for the Jamboree, to work on our posters and presentations. This meeting allowed us to meet all the French iGEM teams and talk about each project and give advice. We met the teams : UGA_Grenoble, Aix-Marseille, Evry_Paris-Saclay, INSA_Lyon1, Ionis_Paris, Montpellier, Sorbonne_U_Paris and Toulouse_INSA-UPS.
• Summer online iGEM meeting
This meeting was an event organized by the Barcelona team, it was a Zoom meeting online for their Mediterranean neighbors, to share our knowledge, the approaches and experiences we chose.
On July 23-24, all iGEM teams were invited to present their projects, goals and to exchange ideas.
The participants: Ionis_Paris, Bilkent_UNAM, Patras, Patras_Medicine, UMA_MALAGA, Navarra_BG, UPNAvarra_Spain, Thessaloniki and us.
• “Fête de la Science” (Science festival)
On the weekend of October 8th 2022, our team participated with other iGEM French teams to the scientific festival at the “Cité des Sciences” (Paris). The participants were Ionis_Paris, Evry_Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne_U_Paris, Paris_Bettencourt and our team.
This was the occasion to spread scientific knowledge, to make synthetic biology known and present its possibilities.
This year, we decided to stay particularly focused on preventing antibiotic resistance. This prevention was important for us to do as our project is about antibiotic production.
