Team:MADRID UCM HS/Collaborations
Collaborations
STAIN collaborations with entitiesIntroduction
MADRID_UCM_HS has been fully immerse in collaborations, as we think they are one of the most important jobs in iGEM. Collaborating has a dual benefit: we learned that collaborating with other groups enriches your project, and so inspires other teams.
Systems Biotechnology Group – Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
The “Systems Biotechnology lab” is devoted to deciphering the complexity of microbial metabolism. Juan Nogales, the group leader, is the Coordinator of a European Project “SynBio4Flav” which is part of a European Consortium that looks after Synthetic Biology standardization.
Juan Nogales and Igor Martínez Sánchez, helped our team with the design and synthesis of 4 genes corresponding to enzymes involved in the anthocyanin route production, adapted for the Golden Gate cloning strategy. They also gave our team theoretical and practical advice on synthetic biology.
Juan Nogales
Group leaderIgor Martínez Sánchez
Team MemberSynthetic Biology and BioSystems Control Lab, Department of Systems Engineering and Control (DISA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Alejandro Vignoni, Associate Professor at the Department of Systems Engineering and Control and Instructor of the 2018 Valencia_UPV iGEM team, kindly provided our team with the parts and vectors, and the advice needed for the cloning of the genes involved in our project.
Alejandro Vignoni
MADRID_UCM team: AEGIS – MADRID iGEM-hub
The first reason for our team to participate in this competition is the encouragement of the members of the 2018 team “The Internet of Biothings”. Since we knew of the existence of the iGEM Competition thanks to them, we started to think about participating. Their student leader; Francisco Javier Quero Lombardero, is actually the person responsible for our participation!
Since both teams decided to participate, we formed the MADRID iGEM-hub which has been a great support for both teams. We knew we could count on each other.
The current undergrad team from the Complutense University, MADRID_UCM, has been helping us since the very beginning to solve all kind of problems related to our participation in the competition. To name them all, we would need kilometers of space in this WiKi, so to make it shorter we will say that throughout the project, we have been sharing the same lab and daily struggles.
NAVARRA_BG team: BioGalaxy
Navarra has been the first region in Spain to present a highschool team to the competition in 2018. Taking advantage of their previous experience, their PI Miren Karmele Gomez Garmendia, helped us with the kick off of our team.
BIOMIL RESEARCH GROUP_UCM
BIOMIL group has been there all the time: to teach how to do it, to provide materials, to lend equipment, to help, to encourage, to…, to…, to…
