Team:UCL London/Collaborations

Collaborations

This year, as a team, we are really aiming high! And we knew that to do so, one must aim high and far, and that involves working with people outside our own geographic area and discipline. Not only that,one of the criteria for GOLD is the collaborations some how with other universities participating in iGEM, and this can take multiple forms, from the development of new standards for Parts Registry and user-friendly Parts, or you may dwell into the ethics aspect and help fill out surveys. This year, we have done both.

Art & Design Institutes

From the beginning, we have been working very closely with students from both Slade school of Arts and Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design. They have been an integral part of all the design and artistic aspects of our project from that of the poster, to the wiki page and T-shirts etc. It has been a great challenge to bring individuals from outside are discipline, and introduce them to our work and enable them to understand the prime elements of what we are doing so that they can then grasp this and be able to put it in some sort of artistic form. For a sneak preview of their work, visit their page Designs

Cambridge Part Development

The initial stages of our project relied of the use of one of Cambridge's successful parts from iGEM 2009, and Visible Red dye Pathway which would help prove that our genetic circuit works by being activated and releasing a red dye. Unfortunately, a few weeks in, we realised that this particular part was not compatible to our circuit. At that point we had to decide on the use of another part. Having said that, we took this as an opportunity to help Cambridge develop that part so that it is more suitable in its application.

Part: BBa_K274100

Name: VRDP

Location Plate3_6H

Plasmid pSB1A2

Base Pairs 3385

Bristol BSim Modeling

Having met some members of the Bristol team at Newcastle's iGEM workshop earlier in the summer, we became interested in each other's project, and especially in Bristol's BSim Modeling software. From that point onwards, we decided to set up a collaboration where Bristol were invited to model part of our genetic circuit using their software.

Sheffield Team Questionaire

Sheffield's iGEM team this year conducted a survey amongst all the teams, and in the spirit of collaboration, we participated and answered the questions which overall focused on the ethical side of Synthetic Biology and so we wanted to contributre to this by filling out their questionnaire. A survey was conducted among iGEM Teams by the Team Sheffield. The interviews focused on the roles and identities of

METU_TURKEY_SOFTWARE Team Survey

Turkey's Software team also conducted a survey but were mainly interested their effort to develop new standards for Parts Registry and user-friendly Part. We felt that this is without a doubt a concept that could without a doubt benefit iGEM teams for years to come and so we participated in this survey.

http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=HIMIGG_469f28c4&ooo=HKJOJHM_13e3e67a&UID=1325614638