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Dutch Meetup

In spite of starting our iGEM journey limited by the COVID-19 pandemic rules, we still wanted to meet the other teams and have some fun. Therefore, we decided to bring all Dutch iGEM teams together by organizing an online event: the Dutch meetup!

On the 2nd of July 2021, all teams met in an online environment where we presented our projects, listened to lectures from great speakers, and discussed human practices in a workshop.

In spite of starting our iGEM journey limited by the COVID-19 pandemic rules, we still wanted to meet the other teams and have some fun. Therefore, we decided to bring all Dutch iGEM teams together by organizing an online event: the Dutch meetup!

On the 2nd of July 2021, all teams met in an online environment where we presented our projects, listened to lectures from great speakers, and discussed human practices in a workshop.

Pitches

We aimed to introduce each team to each other’s projects. Through thrilling and exciting pitches of all budding projects, we successfully achieved this goal. Although the projects were still in the early stages of development, the ideas and designs of all teams were clear and thought out well. The pitches reminded us how diverse strategies and applications can be!

All the participating teams:

• AptaVita (TU Delft)

• Bye-Monia (Groningen)

• Cattlelyst (Wageningen_UR)

• DOPL LOCK (Leiden)

• IBDetection (TU Eindhoven)

• Methagone (MSP-Maastricht)

Speakers

For our meetup, we approached several interesting people for a talk. At the start of our meetup, we opened the event together with our iGEM ambassador Matthew Turk. Later, Dr. Yolanda Schaerli and Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura provided us with fascinating lectures.

Dr. Yolanda Schaerli

Yolanda is Assistant Professor in the Schaerli Lab at the bacterial synthetical biology group from the university of Lausanne. She has also been a principal investigator of their iGEM team since 2020. Her talk revolved around CRISPR interference-based synthetic circuits for precise control of gene expression. In this lecture, she discussed several examples of these circuits, e.g., a toggle switch and a oscillating circuit (called CRISPRlator).

Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura

Barbara has been involved with iGEM since 2008 as a supervisor of the Heidelberg University team. Currently, Barbara is a professor of biological signaling research at the University of Freiburg. Her research focuses on developing optogenetics systems and synthetic biological tools. During her lecture, Barbara introduced us to her work in optogenetic tools with as highlight the images created by ‘blue light-inducible AraC dimers in Escherichia coli ’ (BLADE).

Dr. Yolanda Schaerli

Yolanda is Assistant Professor in the Schaerli Lab at the bacterial synthetical biology group from the university of Lausanne. She has also been a principal investigator of their iGEM team since 2020. Her talk revolved around CRISPR interference-based synthetic circuits for precise control of gene expression. In this lecture, she discussed several examples of these circuits, e.g., a toggle switch and a oscillating circuit (called CRISPRlator).

Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura

Barbara has been involved with iGEM since 2008 as a supervisor of the Heidelberg University team. Currently, Barbara is a professor of biological signaling research at the University of Freiburg. Her research focuses on developing optogenetics systems and synthetic biological tools. During her lecture, Barbara introduced us to her work in optogenetic tools with as highlight the images created by ‘blue light-inducible AraC dimers in Escherichia coli ’ (BLADE).

Workshop

At the end of our meetup, we organized a workshop inspired by the inter-stakeholder simulation {button: go to HP page} performed for our human practices. We mimicked a small inter-stakeholder simulation: the teams were divided into small groups, each consisting of students of two teams. The two teams alternately played the role of developer of their own project, and end-user of the other team’s project.

This exercise sparked great discussions and more personal conversations between the different teams. More insights in important stakeholder concerns were gathered, or the importance of known concerns were highlighted for the different teams.

Borrel

We ended the meetup with virtual drinks and snacks: a “borrel”! This allowed us to relax and reflect on a successful day with the other Dutch teams.

About Cattlelyst

Cattlelyst is the name of the iGEM 2021 WUR team. Our name is a mix of 1) our loyal furry friends, cattle, and 2) catalyst, which is something that increases the rate of a reaction. We are developing “the something” that converts the detrimental gaseous emissions of cattle, hence our name Cattlelyst.

Are you curious about our journey? We have written about our adventures in our blog, which you can find here:

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