Home Team Team Attributions Collaborations Project Description Design Proof of concept Engineering Results Notebook Implementation Contribution Experiments Parts Safety Human Human Practices Communication Partnership Jamboree Organization Awards Education Model Sustainable Collaborations Why to collaborate? As a team, one of our favourite parts in iGEM has been collaborations. iGEM is not just a competition, but a chance to share and let other teams taking part into our project. Below, it is shown the different universities that have collaborated with us. Collaborative playlist Since the first day, we have listened to music for cheering up us while doing lab work. We were curious whether music is that essential to other teams so we decided to make a collaborative playist with them. On the one hand, it was a perfect opportunity to spread local music to other iGEM teams. Therefore, one of the songs should be in the iGEM team native language. On the other hand, the main goal was amusing our long journeys at the lab. Since, one of the songs should be the favourite of the iGEM team while they were working at the lab. As a result of the collaboration, nine iGEM teams sent us songs for the playist: iGEM Gothenburg (Sweden) iGEM Thessaloniki (Greece) iGEM Patras (Greece) iGEM GO Paris-Saclay 2021 (France) iGEM Bielefeld-CeBioTec (Germany) iGEM TU delf (Netherlands) iGEM Boku-Vienna (Austria) Ollin Synbio (Mexico) iGEM Wageningen (Netherlands) iGEM Linköping (Sweden) For all teams, it was such a great experience and a fantastic chance to discover new music from other countries.If you are interested in listening to it, click on the image. Rosalind Chronicles Thessaloniki , Patras, ULaval and Concordia-Montreal. The aim of this collaboration is to encourage women to follow a scientific career and to share the research role by women in different countries. By making a collage of women in our team and resuming the scientific career of Margarita Salas. She was a scientist that inspires us and whom we collaborate with in this wonderful activity. Margarita Salas (1938-2019) was one of the most influential scientists in Spain. Click on the photo for further information. Among her most important science contributions, she determined that the reading of genetic message takes place in 5' to 3' direction. Besides, she discovered and characterized the ɸ29 DNA polymerase from bacteriophage ɸ29, widely used in molecular biology for DNA amplification. In fact, this enzyme patent has been the most profitable in the history of CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas). In an interview, Margarita herself said about this enzyme: 'The special thing about this polymerase is that once it starts working, it continues until it reaches the end of DNA strand and is able to open tha double helix as it advances. It is used for forensic and archaelogical studies, sequencing of human genomas and amplifying entire genomes'. Margarita was an outstanding and hard-working scientist, who always kept her feet on the ground. In the same interview, she was asked: 'You have always rejected the comparison made between you and Marie Curie. It has been named as the "Madame Curie syndrome" to the thought that women must be extraordinarily bright in order to compete in a world of men'. Margarita replied: 'Yes. I think that you don't have to be a genius to be a good scientist. I consider myself an absolutely normal person'. In addition to her research work, she also enjoyed science communication. Actually, she took part in numerous lectures at the University of Zaragoza, where we came up the iGEM-Unizar team. Thessaloniki , Patras, ULaval and Concordia-Montreal iGEM teams made a great work, we encourage to visit the Rosalind Chronicles page USP-Brazil Brazilian Olympiad of Synthetic Biology (OBBS) iGEM USP team organise the first OBBS, an academic competition aimed at high school students that will be celebrated nationwide throughout Brazil. The goal is to spread knowledge about synthetic biology. In order to help them, we wrote a question about synthetic biology that could be included in the Olympiad. On the right side is shown which question we sent to them: TU Eindhoven and iGEM Aachen teams A chemistry lesson for primary schools The goal is to introduce children to some basic concepts within the field of chemistry and synthetic biology by letting them explore chemical phenomena. We sent them experiment protocols we have already done in education stands around our region (Aragon, north of Spain). Rochester Sepsis Awereness Sympiosium The aim of this collaboration is to learn about statistics and policies regarding sepsis in various countries. We collected information about sepsis and we discovered that: 175,000 people get sepsis every year in Spain of which 17,000 pass away. Elderly population is the most vulnerable to sepsis and other diseases such as non-metastatic cancer, chronic heart failure and chronic renal disorders, that increases the probability of suffering of sepsis. In 2016 it has developped the "Código sepsis", that resumes diagnosis techniques, biomarkers, treatment drugs, monitoring and recomendations for hospital staff. iGEM RUBochum team Platypus yoghurt Their goal is to use the DNA of cows and the platypus to produce milk proteins that do not differ in their molecular structure from those natural produced. For the purpose of helping them, we have filled in their survey about which flavour would be the best for their yoghurt and also about dairy products consumption. UNESP Brasil Survey about the fees of iGEM's registrations We have helped UNESP Brasil team by filling their survey, which conclusions we are looking forward. iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec Science questions from children iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec team aim is to create a podcast series answering interesting science questions made by children. We have translated their questions and answers from English to Spanish. As we have done many educational activities answering this kind of questions to curious children, we have enough experience to lend a hand to Bielefeld-CeBiTec team. Click on the wordcloud for open the translated document. Take a look at the wordcloud of most repeated words in this questions, you will find some hilarious words! iGEM Loannina team Translation of the promotion video transcript We have collaborated with iGEM Loannina, helping them to translate its video promotion transcript from Greek to Spanish.
In an interview, Margarita herself said about this enzyme: 'The special thing about this polymerase is that once it starts working, it continues until it reaches the end of DNA strand and is able to open tha double helix as it advances. It is used for forensic and archaelogical studies, sequencing of human genomas and amplifying entire genomes'. Margarita was an outstanding and hard-working scientist, who always kept her feet on the ground. In the same interview, she was asked: 'You have always rejected the comparison made between you and Marie Curie. It has been named as the "Madame Curie syndrome" to the thought that women must be extraordinarily bright in order to compete in a world of men'. Margarita replied: 'Yes. I think that you don't have to be a genius to be a good scientist. I consider myself an absolutely normal person'.
