Collaborations

Our team has enjoyed collaborations with a number of other iGEM teams during the 2019 season.

PuiChing Macau Middle School

We were very pleased to welcome the PuiChing Macau Middle School team to Edinburgh in July. We co-hosted the meetup with the Edinburgh Undergrad team and were very interested to hear how the Macau team's project was developing. As they were also thinking of working with laccases, we talked and offered our experiences with the enzyme to the team. All three teams presented their projects at the meetup which gave us a valuable opportunity to see what the teams were working on, discuss, and offer insight. We wished PuiChing all the best with the rest of their project and offered to remain in touch for any other advice they might need.

University of Manchester - Cutiful

We are glad to share research interest with team Manchester since their projects are both related to dye. We shared our references related to current dye waste situation and bioremediation method. We also gave them feedback with the survey the developed in their project.

University College London - Mesh

UCL has launched a collaborative program named Little LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework). The goal is to promote sustainable practices in the lab to minimize environmental impact. As part of the Little LEAF program, we participated in the Emerald Challenge: A mini guide on how to go green in the lab. We took photos of our team members completing the challenge steps, and we uploaded them to our instagram with the #iGEMEmeraldLAB hashtag.

University of St. Andrews - Domain

We participated in team St. Andrews outreach project ‘Microbiome of Britain’, which carried out in Edinburgh. This resulted in a session of volunteer work at Edinburgh Zoo. We helped team St Andrews to run activities at the zoo for an afternoon, whilst also helped to collect soil sample to be ran as part of their project.

University of Edinburgh Undergraduate - Hydrolyte

As The University of Edinburgh had two teams, overgraduate (Remedye) and undergraduate (Hydrolyte) we took full advantage of having another iGEM team in such close proximity. We had bi-weekly meetings in which we presented our projects and got critical feedback on project direction and also presentation skills. This provided an outside perspective of an iGEM team which knew exactly what was required and what would be feasible with our project. We also used the opportunity to mentor the undergraduate team to help aid the progression of their project. Additionally, we shared protocols, such as ones they had already tested like the his-tag purification protocol and co-hosted the St. Andrews and PuiChing Macau Middle School iGEM teams. By using this advantage both of our teams benefited us by improving our lab work, collaborations and public engagements which made our overall projects more well-rounded and understandable. Furthermore, it was a great to be able to go through this journey with them and improved the iGEM experience

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