Collaborations

Throughout our iGEM year the team Tuebingen has been in contact with the iGEM community based on common project interests, team expertise and personal connections. In order to take part in the community and also look for help when required, we have collaborated thoroughly with 3 teams. Moreover, we have participated in events organized by other teams to engage with their work and experience.

Collaboration iGEM Team Heidelberg

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Aim:

To give feedback of our project, practice pitching skills and, discuss general team organization. .

Collaboration:

A delegation of iGEM Heidelberg came to Tuebingen in April where we first pitched our projects and presented the current state of the experimental design and overall output. Furthermore, advice on managing sponsors as well as social media presence was exchanged in addition to general team organisation and how to improve it.

Result:

Project discussion was fruitful for both teams including sharing literature known by some delegates since a similar idea to team Tuebingen project was part of the brainstorm in team Heidelberg and, crucial new ideas regarding both projects. This led to the consideration of the chassis organism of our biosensor.

Collaboration iGEM Team Universitat de Barcelona

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Aim:

To help to set up a new team in the University of Barcelona in their first participation in the iGEM Competition.

Collaboration:

With a Tuebingen team member enrolled at both universities, early communications started with a set of proposals in the framework of recruitment, resources at the University of Barcelona and, later in the year, within sponsoring from companies and other institutions, by sharing our portfolio and experience in project management.

Result:

The main successful proposals were the finding of their Primary PI, Prof. Manuel Reina del Pozo, within a week of suggesting the professor as a possible and, the contact with research groups or institutions related to the project topic which resulted in the institution that hosted the team during the experimental stage, at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute. Out of the other proposals, one of the foundations suggested for their science fellow network for recruitment, was instead part of a Collaboration in a series of educational videos for the project.

Collaboration with iGEM Team Patras

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Aim:

To Perform Molecular Dynamics Simulation to view if our protein PctD has a state in which Anatoxin-a can bind at the binding site.

Collaboration:

First we met to discuss the problem. in the same meeting Team Patras gave us some tips and instructions how to run a Molecular Dynamic Simulation. After the Simulation of only Ptcd worked, the next step was to perform Molecular Dynamic and Docking in the same calculation. Because of technical issues, Team Tübingen couldn’t perform this simulation on their own, so Team Patras performed the simulation for us.

Result:

We successfully performed the Molecular Dynamic Simulation thanks to Team Patras. The results suggest PctD cannot accomodate Anatoxin-a well.