Team:MIT/Collaborations


Eastern Seaboard Collaboration

One of the ways we collaborated with other teams was through the Eastern Seaboard Collaboration. In particular, we worked closely with the Johns Hopkins iGEM team on the educational module. They created the first video, explaining the power of type IIs restriction enzymes, which you can see on our education page! In particular, Miles Lee, Sreenivas Eadara, Sheryl Lin, Gabriel Au, and Aryan Dugar from the Hopkins team created the video. They also provided invaluable feedback on how to improve the product.

We also met approximately bi-weekly to discuss our progress and medaling requirements with the Lambert team, UFlorida team, JHU team, and UPenn team. Having these meetings with other teams gave us, in particular, advice on how to fix our wiki issues, and write about the project successes that we did have! Having other people to commiserate with when experiments were failing or celebrate with when they were working was invaluable.

We also hosted the MIT Microbiome Meetup virtually! For more information on that, check out our meetup page!