Collaborations with iGEM Teams across the world
iGEM UFMG-UFV-Brazil
MeetUp LATAM
It’s no secret that sometimes, doing science in Latin America can be hard; which is why we were thrilled to know that Team UFMG-UFV-Brazil was organizing a meetup for all the the teams in the continent and decided to join as organizers. The event was held online the 15th and 16th of July. The first day of the event the teams presented their project through a YouTube live and had a Q&A at the end. The next day, iGEMers from all over Latin America joined a zoom call, where we discussed more about our work, our challenges and strenghts. If you want to watch the LATAM project presentations, click right away! To know more about iGEM UFMG-UFV-Brazil, click here!
iGEM Patras
Getting to know SynBio projects around the world
Podcasts are getting each time more and more popular, which is why a lot of iGEM teams have decided to share their knowledge and work through this type of media. However, a lot of times, they don’t get the recognition they deserve, which is why we decided to make an open call to every iGEM team that wanted to promote their podcast, and that’s how we connected with team iGEM Patras. They have a podcast series called “Podcast with iGEM Patras (2022)”, where they share information about the iGEM Competition, their project, and topics like precision agriculture. You can listen to our podcast episode “And after studying the college career?”, where we promote iGEM Patras´s podcast. You can watch this podcast episode here:
Also, we did a special podcast episode titled “Podcast with iGEM Patras” where we interviewed Despoina, member of the iGEM Patras team, where we also promote The Cadmium Buzz, a podcast that iGEM REC-CHENNAI will create. You can listen or watch this content in Spotify and YouTube, as well as in the iGEM Video Universe:
To know more about team iGEM Patras, make sure to visit their wiki
iGEM REC-CHENNAI
Getting to know SynBio projects around the world
It can be difficult to start up a podcast, especially when there’s no concrete audience who knows about it. For this reason, we promoted The Cadmium Buzz, a podcast that team iGEM REC-CHENNAI plans to start. In there, they will talk about their project and other interesting topics like conservation and some foundational advances regarding cadmium precipitation. You can listen to the episode “Podcast with iGEM Patras” where we also promote their show, in our Spotify page or our YouTube channel, as well as in the iGEM Video Universe, which was included in the section above. To know more about their project, don’t forget to check their wiki
iGEM NTHU_Taiwan
The iGEM Map
Synthetic Biology has united tons of teams through iGEM. However, there’s so many teams arround the world that knowing what they’re working on can get really hard. That’s why team NTHU_Taiwan decided to reach out to teams all around the world and create the iGEM Map, where animated characters created by each team explain in a very simple and concise way what they’re doing and where to find more information. To see the iGEM Map, click on the following video or here to interact with it.
And to learn more about Team NTHU_Taiwan, you can click here
Picture book: “SOS: Save Kobe from Staph”
Sometimes it can be hard to understand what a project is about, especially when we’re not familiar with the topic. For this reason, picture books can be a very important took in science communication. However, in picture books, when there’s a language barrier, even the most detailed images can be complicated to understand. That’s why we were glad to help team team iGEM NTHU_Taiwan translate their picture book “SOS: Save Kove from Staph” to Spanish, our native language. To read NTHU_Taiwan´s picture book, you can visit their wiki here
iGEM UiOslo_Norway
Building BerryVax
Synthetic Biology is a very new field, which is why sometimes it’s hard to find people who have good understanting of how it works. At our school, we’re just starting to cover these topics, which and when our Wet Lab experiments didn’t work out as expected, we were lucky to find team iGEM UiOslo_Norway, who helped us validate our genetic circuit after adjusting it according to our previous results. To know more about our Dry and Wet Lab work, click here. If you want to know more about UiOslo_Norway’s project, click here
Getting to know SynBio projects around the world
In order to share UiOslo’s project with the world, we will also make a special SYN Sentido episode talking about their work and experience at iGEM this year. If you want to listen to it, make sure to visit our Spotify page or our YouTube channel
iGEM Unicamp_Brazil
Building Berryvax
As we mentioned earlier, there’s still much more we can learn about Synthetic Biology, which is why when team iGEM Unicamp_Brazil offered to check our construct, we were glad to share it with them. Thanks to them, we validated BerryVax’s genetic circuit design. For more information about our lab work, click here
Shipping issues in Latin America
When sharing our experiences with other LATAM teams, we noticed that all of us were having troubles with the delivery of the iGEM Parts Kit, reagents and/or synthetic DNA. Adding to this, we all agreed that this fact severely affected the reach that our projects could have, which is why we joined team Unicamp_Brazil in their letter to iGEM, where these difficulties are explained in more detail, as well as some possible measures that we suggest being taken in order to improve the situation for future teams.
iGEM Synthetic Biobots
Biosafety and biosecurity
Since BerryVax would need to be released into the environment to fulfill its purpose, biosafety and biosecurity were always one of our main priorities. Therefore, we will join team Synthetic Biobots, whom which we participated in iGEM Design League last year, by giving a conference called “Waste management for sustainable experimentation” in a free webinar.
Special thanks to:
We want to give special thanks to our contributors, without them we couldn't make a great progress during this journey :)
Erick Eduardo Gamboa Valle
Saulo Emmanuel Hernández Vega
Aracely Gutierrez Lomelí
Alejandra Figueroa Esqueda
Maria Paula Martínez Bumas
Sofía Anahí Real Cobarruvias
Diego Mijangos Montes
Sergio Godínez Manríquez
