Team:Patras/Road

iGEM Patras 2021

Road to Giant Jamboree

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is a progress. Working together is success.

DEC

Let the journey begin

Member recruitment.
Team building.

JAN

Let’s start!

Brainstorming about the concept of our project.
Completing our subteams with young but experienced individuals in their field of expertise.

FEB

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Discussions with doctors to verify the need for dose adjustment of a wide range of drugs.
Deciding to study CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 liver enzymes.
Starting our partnership with iGEM Thessaloniki team.

MAR

Connecting with people.

Deciding that Oxford Nanopore is the best device to apply NGS in an accurate, time and money-consuming way.
Personal experience of what patients have faced regarding ADRs and Pharmacogenomics.
Fundraising at its finest.

APR

Current status: Official iGEMers.

Creating our comic for children and our Braille comic for blind people.
Continuing our efforts for sponsorships.
Being active on social media.

MAY

A little progress each day adds up to big results.

Defining the workflow for ADRs problem by experts’ in Synthetic Biology, Genetics and Pharmacogenomics advice.
Deciding that the functional characterization of novel and rare variants should be performed, using in vitro assays and in silico prediction scores derived from NGS analysis.

JUNE

The distance between dreams and reality is called action.

Starting wet-lab experiments on in-vitro assays using eukaryotic cells to validate the functional effect of our variants
The SynBio Academy; our podcast was published to share synthetic biology ideas.
Getting started with the creation of our synthetic biology board games.

JULY

Difficult roads usually lead to beautiful destinations.

Deciding that our final goal is to propose a comprehensive workflow for the identification and functional characterization of PGx variants.
Welcoming of iGEM Thessaloniki team in our laboratories in Patras.
Submission of our Project Promotion Video with sign language.

AUG

Dream. Plan. Do.

Start creating our Wiki.
Configuration of our Project Presentation.
Getting feedback upon the cost-effectiveness and ethics of our project.
Rosalind Chronicles: the timeline collaboration between 4 teams that praises the Women in STEM.

SEP

No pressure, no diamonds.

Determination of the activity of the enzymes examined via HPLC-Mass Spectrometry.
Science Communication presentations in public schools and in private coaching schools in secondary education.
It’s All About iGEM - A SynBio Day: our common public engagement activity with the iGEM Thessaloniki team.
Women in STEM presentation alongside iGEM Concordia, iGEM ULaval and iGEM Thessaloniki.

OCT

Dream big, stay focused, and make it happen.

Organizing “Mare nostrum” iGEM Meet-Up.
Shooting our Team Presentation video.
Building up our Wiki.
Finding a way to show other teams how to make their site audible for blind people.

NOV

A LOT can happen in a year.

Building our Virtual Giant Jamboree Presentation.
Attending Virtual Giant Jamboree.
Enjoying our free time without - 2021 iGEM Competition’s - deadlines.