"Film In Lab" - The Video Tutorial Project

The iGEM – Debrecen group is a multidisciplinary team. In summer 2010 we had guest students, the AKG team, from a high school in Budapest joining us. In order to bring all the students, coming from different backgrounds, into a functioning unit, we created as part of the preparatory phase video tutorials. The video tutorials project, also called:"Film in Lab" project, started as an initiative of our group and grew larger.

In general, our idea initially was to create an observational way of teaching the basic lab techniques. Nevertheless, the project got lots of empathy, thus we have decided to improve it and to create an own sub team that will deal with the creation of the "Film in Lab" project. This way, aiming to establish an open source that will serve future iGEM members around the globe. We believe that this contribution is in harmony with the idea of the iGEM initiative.

Moreover, this "Film in Lab" project is a great example for how complicated procedures can be simplified and delivered to beginner. For making the experience complete and fruitful, one may find the protocols in the 'Open wet ware' account of iGEM-Debrecen Team 2010. We recommend to read the protocols carefully before and after watching the video tutorial for maximizing the experience.

We thank 'Roche' for supporting and sponsoring this project. Also, we thank all students members and supervisors for critical review of scripts and audio soundtrack. Especially, to Dorottya Jakab (AKG team) and Burger Veronika (a sixth year medical student) who made this project posible.

The members of the "Film in Lab" project :

Dorottya, Jakab – presenting student (Transformation, Midiprep, Gel-Electrophoresis)

Ozgyin, Lilla – presenting student (Cell-passaging, Ligand stimulation, Transfection)

Sandor, Kata – presenting student (PCR)

Nagy, Kata - critical review of Midiprep

Malka, Lior – presenting student (nanodrop),and our web master

Endre, Kristof – video making (PCR)

Guri, Yakir – Coordinating the project, film making and editing

Liu, Shun-Chien – coordinator, Scripts, video making (nanodrop) and audio co-editor

Markovits, Daniel – Audio

Guri, Yakir

Video Project supervisor

Balint L. Balint, MD, PhD,

Supervisor and instructor of 'iGEM-Debrecen 2010 Team'