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Team Collaborations

The Medal Requirements now include team collaborations as a silver medal requirement. To help facilitate collaborations, we have made this page so teams can share information about ways they wish to collaborate to reach all of the 2019 iGEM teams.

Please note that this is a page for teams to advertise their collaboration requests. This does not guarantee that participating in one of these will fulfill the silver medal criteria. It is still up to you and your teammates to convince the judges that you have participated in a meaningful collaboration as stated on the Medal Requirements page.

Do you want to promote a Collaboration Request?

Send us your request by email: hq AT igem DOT org .

Please include:

Name of Collaboration Request
Your Team Name
Your Team Location (Institution and Country)
Your contact information - Contact Name and Email (to be posted online)
Brief Collaboration Request description. This can be something that you can offer other teams or something that you are looking for from another team(s).

Postcard project

Building an International iGEM Team Well

The Colony-Picture Project

What is your dream synthetic biology laboratory?

Demographic's and Inclusivity Survey 2019

iGEM Aptamers Hub initiative

Virtual Protocol Donation Box

iGEM Instagram Challenge

Mike the Microbe

Minterlab

iGEM Art Exposition

Analysing the Menstrual Waste Crisis

International Stratospheric and Space Legislation

iGEMxSDGs challenge

Promoters Needed for Bioelectric Sensor

Creating a Wiki Wealth of Knowledge

Request to optimize team's device

Collaborative Comic

Who Wore it Best?

Sorting CereMonera

How to iGEM - a video collaboration project

The Voice iGEM Contest

The GoldenGate webinar

Teams working with Anaerobes (or have access to an Anaerobic cabinet)

Global Business Plan

Science Sketches

Mini-Survey about waste waters

Cooking with iGEM

Styrofoam use in iGEM Labs

Emerald Challenge

iGEM Art Competition

Need thermostable proteins?

iGEMeme

iGEM "Social Media" Hub

iGEM Plant Teams and Plant Modelling Collaboration

Insulin Project Collaboration

Escape Box – Europe

iGEM contact address directory

Help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods

iGEM Lab Olympics

One Minute iGEM Challenge

The Language Project 2.0

Instagram Well Walk Challenge

Rice University Meta Analysis

PhaGEM

Library: Receptors and aptamers of rare cell lines

Cell Lysis Methods Survey

Maybe you need a comic book!

Kings College London Bio-security standards survey

iGEM Weather Contingency Plan

A map filling game to investigate pollution

Let's fight food allergens together !!!

Texas Red as a standard for measuring mCherry

Beta-test our codon harmonisation program!

What is iGEM for you?

Haiku: a poetic collaboration

Start-Up Guide for Highschool iGEM Teams

Could you please take a picture of Mikania micrantha for us?

Testing an educational board game

Testing and/or Translating Outreach Booklet Activities

Are you aware enough?

In how many languages can you translate a comic ?

iGEM worldmap

iGEM-2019 Blitz Chess Tournament

Survey about tick-borne diseases

iGEM2019 Spartakiade

BBA game

Wiki and poster proofreading/editing

Primers Magazine - The Open SynBio Compendium

70. Primers Magazine - The Open SynBio Compendium

Team: SASTRA_Thanjavur

Team Location: SASTRA Deemed University (Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India)

Contact Information:
Priyannth and Shivaramakrishna (igemsastra.2019 [AT] gmail.com)

Description:
<VF2>
Hello!

We are the SASTRA iGEM Team from India!

In pursuit of a wide-reaching collaboration with the amazing teams participating in iGEM this year, we have come up with a magazine idea aimed at delineating the basics of synthetic biology to a non-iGEMer or even a non-biologist.

Feel free to do any of the following and more:

Write articles about all things SynBio, from lab work to startups
Dole out quirky puns
Share your interview transcripts with field experts you may have reached out
SynBio themed photographs and artwork (we may feature these!)
SynBio Organism Featurette: A few words about your favourite chassis organism
Protocol demystification: Explain an experimental protocol you love the most in just 3 sentences

The Deadline for submissions is October 18th 2019.
We look forward to your collaboration!
Please fill out this Google Form to let us know you are in!
https://forms.gle/djpeM9UPTCMbRj1X7

Happy writing!

With much anticipation,
SASTRA iGEM Team <VR>

P.S. To those of you wondering why our content is "enclosed" within VF2 and VR, our magazine collaboration is called "primers" for lack of a better name.

69. Wiki and poster proofreading/editing

Team: OhioState

Team Location: The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, United States)

Contact Information:
kimmel.95 [at] osu.edu

Description:
iGEM at The Ohio State University wants to help 1-2 teams from non-English speaking countries by editing the writing on their wikis/posters for clarity and grammar. If you think our help could be useful, contact Christopher Kimmel at kimmel.95 [at] osu.edu. We plan to begin reviewing drafts of other teams' wiki content around Tuesday, the 15th of October.

Priority will be given to teams with few or no native English speakers, but teams from English-speaking countries are also welcome to get in touch.

68. BBA game

Team: CU

Team Location: Cairo University - Egypt

Contact Information:
Mariam Ezz El-Arab - igemcu [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Explaining BioBricks assembly to people who are not familiar with Synthetic Biology is a hard task. Where Synthetic Biology is a new emerging science, mainly -in Egypt- it’s not common between Professors, Academics and Students.

We found that Richard Feynman’s famous quote "What I cannot create, I do not understand." is so true. As visualising, designing and building the genetic circuits is much more beneficial than just illustrating it in a theoretical way.

For that reason, we decided to come up with the BBa game; to mimic what really happens inside the actual reaction. To play this game, each team should be provided with basic parts/BioBricks (Promoters, RBS, CDS, Tags, Terminators, Linkers, Plasmid backbone, required enzymes and reagents) in the form of stickers, and a Cheat Sheet; that contains all parts with detailed description; and of course some deceiving parts, to make sure that they choose the right ones.

You can use this game to play against your team mates or use it in any of your public outreach events.
Just drop us an email (igemcu [AT] gmail.com) and we will send you all the materials and details. We bet you’ll love it guys. LET’S PLAY!

66. iGEM2019 Spartakiade

Team: Moscow

Team Location: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Contact Information:
igemoscow [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello dear iGEMers!

iGEM deadlines are close. You feel exhausted by the unfinished experiments, tons of wiki reports and no fun with your labmates? Well, let us cheer you up with launching "iGEM2019 Spartakiade", where teams from all over the world participate in easy, funny and positive exercise marathon. The idea is simple: you just need to have 4+ members of your team to perform basic 2 min long exercises. We believe that will help iGEMers to be boosted on this finish line of the competition. To unite teams in simple marathon, receive positive vibes and make new friends amongst members of other teams - Spartakiade is your choice! We bring people together! Instructions on exercises would be given from official instagram account igem_moscow

In order to participate, you need to:
1) Send information (your Instagram and email) to igemoscowATgmail.com
2) Check our Instagram posts with instructions for that challenge for the next 2-3 days. Record a 2-minute video of you performing exercises in your lab in a creative manner. It would take a couple of minutes to perform exercise and 1 minute to upload the video.
3) Upload short clips of your performances on your team Instagram account with #igem2019spartakiade hashtag

All participants who will post 5 or more videos (1 video per day) with #igem2019spartakiade would automatically get present on the Giant Jamboree 2019!

65. Survey about tick-borne diseases

Team: Moscow

Team Location: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Contact Information:
igemoscow [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello, iGEMers!
This year we are working on a portable biosensor that can detect the presence of Borrelia spp., that cause Lyme disease in ticks. During our project we faced with lack of awareness of the tick-borne diseases among the public. As part of our research, we have launched the survey to know about attitude to this problem in your country.

In order for this to be considered as a collaboration, a minimum of 5 participants from your team have to pass the survey. After that, the collaboration is added to our and your wiki.

Here is the link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5bmo5sWMPy44Z6H-gchB8oQqWiUyaVoXQUcWDceLFyK2yNg/viewform

The deadline is October 18

64. iGEM-2019 Blitz Chess Tournament

Team: Moscow

Team Location: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Contact Information:
igemoscow [AT] gmail.com

Description:
It’s time for CHESS! Good alternative to chill and switch activities if you are tired. We hold an online Blitz Chess tournament for 16 teams. Each team delegates 1 player and they participate in Single Elimination competition. Games are played with 5 min per player time control, until one of the players will lead after an even number of played games. Games should be played on Chess.com either website or application.
To participate in blitz:
1) Email us your coordinates if you are in at igemoscowATgmail.com
2) Wait for instructions to arrive on your email

63. iGEM worldmap

Team: Hamburg

Team Location: University of Hamburg, Germany

Contact Information:
Stine Behrmann, igem.hamburg [AT] gmail.com

Description:
We found that it is quite hard to understand scientific issues if you're not in the topic. This is pitiful, as there are many great ideas and potentials, especially in iGEM. So we made it our ambition to make iGEM truly open source. We would like to create a world map consisting of easy to understand iGEM abstracts with you. Thus, the public can take part in the fascinating projects that you all created. Do you want to help us with this?

If you are interested just email us: igem.hamburg [AT] gmail.com and we will provide you with guidelines and every help you need!
We hope to bring together many abstracts to a great world map!

62. In how many languages can you translate a comic ?

Team: Evry Paris_Saclay

Team Location: Genopole campus 1, Evry (France)

Contact Information:
Suzanne Phengsay, igemevry[at]gmail.com

Description:
We, the Evry Paris-Saclay iGEM team, created a short comic to explain synthetic biology and its usefulness in our project . We are inviting other iGEM team to translate this comic in the native languages of their team members. This will allow to show that iGEM teams can be composed of students from all over the world. And why not make a mini-competition: which team can translate the comic in the largest number of different languages (without Google translate of course :) ? If you want to participate, just send us an e-mail at igemevry[at]gmail.com

You can use our comic on your Public Engagement wiki page.

61. Are you aware enough?

Team: IISER Kolkata

Team Location: IISER Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Contact Information:
Ipshita, Email: team.igem [AT] iiserkol.ac.in

Description:
This year our team is working to fight against the deadly disease - Kala Azar or Leishmaniasis which comes under the category of Neglected tropical diseases and as the name suggests, it is in fact neglected with respect to the awareness about the disease and the measurements taken to curb it. We request you to participate in our small awareness and information survey by filling up a google form. This will help us to understand the extent of awareness about this disease around the world. If you are interested to make this collaboration more meaningful, then we would request you to circulate the form among the students in your respective institutes. It will help in creating awareness among a bigger mass.

Here is the link to the form: https://forms.gle/epJEf2dAsEQoAJhAA

In case if you are circulating the form then let us know by dropping a mail on our email ID. Your contribution is highly appreciated. Feel free to mail us for any further queries.

60. Testing and/or Translating Outreach Booklet Activities

Team: Washington

Team Location: University of Washington, United States

Contact Information:
Hannah Cheung, hfcheung [AT] uw.edu

Description:
Hello, we are Washington iGEM. We have created an outreach booklet meant to introduce schoolchildren to the field of synthetic biology through fun, interactive activities. However, we need your help to make our booklet the best it can possibly be!

First of all, you can use and give feedback on our 2019 outreach booklet activities at your own events! If your team has an upcoming outreach event for students, please send me an email letting me know (1) the age range of the students attending your event and (2) more details about the event (is it a school visit, tabling event, etc). We will recommend activities from our 2019 booklet for you to use! After using these activities, you will give us feedback on what went well, what could be improved, and how to improve the activities.

Furthermore, we are looking for people to help translate our outreach booklet and supplementary materials into other languages. If any of your team members is fluent in another language than English, please send me an email letting me know your interest and what language(s) your member(s) can translate in. This includes written translation and voice-recording.

The deadline is October 21. I look forward to hearing from you!

59. Testing an educational board game

Team: KCL UK, King’s College London

Team Location:Guy’s Campus London, UK

Contact Information:
daniilka104 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello iGEM teams,
As part of our public engagement and education, we decided to create an educational board game which teaches children basic information about viruses and the immune system. We play tested it and after some editing, found it challenging and exciting.

Now we want to see what other teams think about it. If you are planning on doing any workshops or activities with schools, you can use our game if you want to teach students about viruses. If you are not, feel free to play it yourselves, or even challenge other teams! Either way, we would like to know what you did with the game, whether you liked it, and if there should be any changes made, so we can feature each team’s story and view of the game on our wiki. The game is available on an online platform. If you are interested, please contact us, so we can send you the link to host a game. We hope you enjoy the game, and thank you for taking time to participate.

Team KCL

58. Could you please take a picture of Mikania micrantha for us?

Team: SZU-China

Team Location: Shenzhen University, China

Contact Information:
Annie Liao, annie66l [AT] 163.com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEMers!

We are SZU-China team and this year we are going to develop an herbicide for Mikania micrantha Kunth, which is a perennial vine native to tropical central and South America and has been called "Mile-a-minute Vine". As one of the worst invasive weeds in the world, Mikania micrantha spread to southern China after 1910, where lacks of any natural enemies, so since the 1980s it has started to spread and invade widely. The weed has caused significant damage to many ecosystems in Guangdong province in recent years.

We decide to use the agricultural drone that can identify Mikania micrantha in nature and spray our herbicide on them. We need to collect thousands of photos of Mikania micrantha to train our recognition model. Therefore, we are in need collaborators from all over the world to find whether there is Mikania micrantha around, shoot the photos and send them to us.

We would appreciate it if you could help us. What's more, we will select the best from the pictures you sent us and display them in the exhibition space with the names of your team. Then, you can come to our exhibition space to get delicate gifts we prepared for you!

Please feel free to contact us by email: annie66l [AT] 163.com! We would love to hear from you!

57. Start-Up Guide for Highschool iGEM Teams

Team: East Chapel Hill HS

Team Location: North Carolina

Contact Information:
Camille Lorie, calorie [AT] students.chccs.k12.nc.us

Description:
Hello all! We are the East Chapel Hill HS iGEM team, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. At present, there are no other high school iGEM teams participating in our area, likely due to a lack of knowledge on how to get started with their own iGEM team! To encourage more youth to participate in iGEM and the realm of synthetic biology, we will be creating a Start-Up Guide for new high school iGEM teams. We're looking for other highschool teams to collaborate with so we can include as many perspectives, tips, and insights as possible. Please contact calorie [AT] students.chccs.k12.nc.us if you are interested. We hope to hear from you all very soon!

56. Haiku: a poetic collaboration

Team: GO Paris Saclay

Team Location: Université Paris Saclay, France

Contact Information:
Clara, igem.parissaclay [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello 2019 iGEMers around the world!

We are the team GO PARIS SACLAY iGEM 2019 and our project, “DNA FREE POETential” mixes synthetic biology with poetry.

You can help us and participate to our project by simply writing haikus!

Haikus are Japanese poems composed of only 3 sentences of 5 / 7 / 5 syllables, respectively. They classically reflect the fleeting beauty of Life, expressing ephemeral but strong feelings.

We invite you to participate to our project by writing haikus (in all languages) about the fate of a DNA-less cell, or any idea related to synthetic biology. Your collaborative haikus will be selected by our team for the wiki and/or our final oral presentation (with the indication of the team/author(s) who composed it).

Here’s the link for more information and also for writing your awesome haikus: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjVM2dxJhs_eQyp8XuxJ1qeozn9UJxiVFt8JbbaFT3kFwjJA/viewform?usp=sf_link

We hope you will join the other teams in this artistic collaboration!

Thank you for participating and helping us.

We look forward to seeing you in Boston

The GO Paris Saclay team

55. What is iGEM for you?

Team: UAAAN

Team Location: Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro Saltillo, Coahuila, México.

Contact Information:
igemuaaan [AT] gmail.com, Facebook: IGEM UAAAN, 8441951258.

Description:
Hi iGEM teams:
As we all know, iGEM is not only about our projects, but also about involving the public with synthetic biology. To do this, we want to know what your experience in the competition. We invite you to send us a short video describing in a word that means iGEM for your team. This should be in your native language.

Thank you for participating and helping us!
iGEM Team UAAAN 2019

54. Beta-test our codon harmonisation program!

Team: Sydney Australia

Team Location: USYD, Australia

Contact Information:
igemsydney2019 [AT] gmail.com or iGEM Sydney on facebook and instagram.

Description:
Hello iGEM teams!

One of the things that many iGEM teams do in their projects is take a gene from one organism and move it into another chassis. But, as many of you know, this doesn’t always work out so well! One of the reasons for this is that different organisms have different codon usage preferences, and if your gene still uses its source organism’s preferred codons it may not work as well in your chassis organism.

One way to deal with this is codon optimisation (e.g. as provided by IDT) - this substitutes the most common codon at each position, and often works well. Sometimes this still fails, and a more subtle approach (codon harmonisation) may be better - in this case, each codon is substituted by one with similar *relative* rarity, thus acknowledging that there are sometimes reasons for organisms using rare codons in a gene sequence.

Here’s where we come in: we have designed a program which allows you to automatically codon-harmonise your gene by comparing the codon usage data for the source and destination organism. You can then easily order one or more of these sequences to test expression in your desired chassis organism.

We’re looking for some iGEM teams that would like to test our codon harmonisation methods. Email us your sequence and details of the source and destination organisms and we will send you back the codon-harmonised variants. Then let us know if this process helped with your gene expression.

53. Texas Red as a standard for measuring mCherry

Team: Bielefeld-CeBiTec

Team Location: Bielefeld, Germany

Contact Information:
info [AT] igem-bielefeld.de

Description:
Hey 2019 iGEMers,
most of us are, at least to some extend, working with fluorescent proteins. However, as you might have learnt from previous teams, or even first-hand, it's hard to compare fluorescence data generated under varying conditions.
Therefore, standardization has to be done. For GFP this was established during the Interlab study over the last few years: by measuring GFP against a dilution series of Fluorescein, a unit for GFP fluorescence could be created and data generated at several labs could be compared. However, depending on the application other fluorescent proteins than GFP might be more suitable. Therefore, we are planning to establish Texas Red as a standard for mCherry meausrements - and we need you to join us and conduct some measurements at your plate readers!

Find the protocols here: https://2019.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/mCherry and get in touch at info [AT] igem-bielefeld.de or via Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
We're looking forward to collaborating with you!
Team Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2019

52. Let's fight food allergens together !!!

Team: Strasbourg

Team Location: Strasbourg, France

Contact Information:
igemstrasbourg2019 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello iGEM teams !
We are iGEM Strasbourg 2019 (France) and we would much appreciate if you could provide us some of your time to answer to our questionnaire.
We are trying to create a test allowing the detection of food allergens and we want to do a survey on the impact and incidence of allergies in different countries where there are iGEM teams.
Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSw7QNbduEHF5fxElkU4Cmu6xkQzS_AkOrGZoH45TsnjJEzA/viewform
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Best regards,
Your iGEM Strasbourg Team

51. A map filling game to investigate pollution

Team: HBUT-China

Team Location: Hubei University of Technology, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Contact Information:
hbutigem [AT] 163.com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEM Teams! We are the HBUT iGEM team from China, and we invite you to join the map filling game to investigate pollution For the project’s human practices, we have learned about nickel pollution in China. Now we want to collect information about nickel-ion contamination condition and related standard around the world. And we have listed the following three questions and hope to get your answers.

What is the national standard (sepcific nickel ion concentration) that your country allows factories to emit nickel-containing wastewater?
In addition to national standards, does your city have local standards for nickel metal emissions or other metal emissions? What is it? Is it more stringent than the national standard?
Is there any nickel or other heavy metal contamination in your region? If so, can you talk about it? Did it cause serious environmental degradation or any human body diseases?

We need your help to fill the map of our survey and the information up to September 20th, to be able to register the collaboration on our Wiki. If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you! Wish your team is going well.

50. iGEM Weather Contingency Plan

Team: UPRM

Team Location: University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR.

Contact Information:
igemrum [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEMers!

The world is facing a serious threat of severe weather events, if these phenomena are inevitable, we should be prepared to safeguard our amazing iGEM projects by assessing, developing and implementing a Weather Contingency Plan (WCP).

Frequently, we learn about a storm/blizzard/tornado that affects places where fellow iGEM teams are working on their projects. In some cases, the phenomenon can even force the affected team to reconsider their participation in the iGEM Giant Jamboree Competition. With your help, we can create an iGEM WCP that helps current and future iGEM teams be prepared to stay on track for the competition even in the harshest weather conditions. The iGEM WCP is a collaboration effort that will have historic significance and provoke a real positive impact in the way iGEM teams are working their respective projects.

Our team envisions developing a booklet that can be distributed electronically to new iGEM teams at the start of the next competition cycles. We propose that this iGEM WCP booklet should be worked in unison by at least 3 active 2019 iGEM teams from each corresponding iGEM region, therefore we are in need collaborators from all over the world ASAP. Maybe it could be your team!

These are contents we propose to be developed by each respective iGEM region for the iGEM WPC:

Communication strategies between team members and with iGEM HQ before, during and after a weather phenomenon.
Establishing collaboration partnerships grid across the iGEM regions.
Electricity independent laboratory protocols.
Project planning with low resources.
Time efficiency and strategic planning.

As you can see, our team is very ambitious with this collaboration request, we expect you to be the same. We are counting on your help, especially since we are the first team of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean to compete at iGEM!

Best regards,
UPRM iGEM
igemrum [AT] gmail.com

49. Kings College London Bio-security standards survey

Team: Kings College London

Team Location: Guy's Campus London, UK

Contact Information:
iGEM [AT] kcl.ac.uk - Josephine Eum

Description:
Hi fellow iGEM teams

As part of our collaboration effort, our team has launched a survey to address bio-security protocols in labs globally to address the current standards. Our survey will estimate its use in institutions labs to determine if location has an effect on the enforcement of biosecurity standards and how this can vary between institutions from the same country and different countries.

This survey is only 4 questions long so we would appreciate it if as many team members from each team could complete the form. To thank teams for their contribution, everyone who fills out the form will be featured on our collaborations and/or integrated human practices tab on our wiki!

Link to the form: https://forms.gle/W7iA8pXPq17Q8p3V6

48. Maybe you need a comic book！

Team: OUC-China

Team Location: Ocean University of China, Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China

Contact Information:
Zhenning Bao——oucigem AT 163 DOT com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!

Last year, under the help of Aix-Marseille, Tartu_TUIT, Duesseldorf, UPF_CRG_Barcelona, Thessaloniki, McMaster, Stockholm, Vilnius-Lithuania, Bilkent-UNAMBG iGEM teams all over the world, our comic book has been translated into 13 languages. （French，Greek，Portuguese，Lithuanian，Turkish，Estonian，Russian，German，Italian，Spanish，Catalan，English，Chinese）More than 15 teams take our comic book E.coli SPACESHIP to local areas for science education. This year, we added the content of the comic book. We welcome all teams to use our comic book to educate on synthetic biology. We will provide you with our comic book for free. In addition, for the new content added this year, we also welcome you to translate it into the language of your own country for educational activities.

47. Cell Lysis Methods Survey

Team: Tartu TUIT

Team Location: University of Tartu, Estonia

Contact Information:
Nadezhda Chulkova, tartutuit [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Description:
Hello world! This year Tartu_TUIT team develops the autolytic yeast strain, that will ease extraction of the valuable compounds from the cells. This strain has a great potential to decrease the costs connected to cell lysis.

Do you produce some chemical compounds using yeast? If yes, we would like to know, what cell wall lysis methods do you use and what problems do you face. It will be definetely helpful for us: to estimate the efficiency of our mechanism we need to collect the actual information about other lysis methods, that are being used nowadays.

This is the link to our survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwoDgXEb1qnyhOfUd9UZXQHObDXOgMwO5q8ZGfMqb29pKcgQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

46. Library: Receptors and aptamers of rare cell lines

Team: DUT China A

Team Location: Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning, China

Contact Information:
DUT_China_A_2019 [AT] 163.com

Description:
We would like to establish a library of rare cell lines’ receptors and aptamers. This library will serve as an open source for related researchers and also iGEMers. If your team’s work is (or was) related to the receptors and aptamers of non-widely-used cells, please help us to set up the library. You can send us an e-mail with the information below: the name of the cell lines, receptors and its characteristics, aptamers and its characteristics. If possible, you can also send us the structure and the bonding mechanism of the receptors and aptamers, which will definitely help a lot. We would really appreciate it if you send us an e-mail to help establishing the library. Contact us at DUT_China_A_2019 [AT] 163.com.

45. PhaGEM

Team: NAWI Graz

Team Location: Institute for Biochemistry, TU Graz, Austria

Contact Information:
Felix Schweigkofler, felix.s [AT] igem-graz.at

Description:
We are working with phages and so are a lot of you out there.

But phages can be difficult to handle and we might profit from the experiences of other teams and would be glad to share some of our knowledge with you. If you have any questions or ideas regarding our project or a possible collaboration, don’t hesitate to contact us.

E.g.: For our project we need to purify and concentrate the phages by gradient centrifugation with CsCl, but face some problems. If any of you have experience with that or would like to collaborate by trying to reproduce our data, we would love to hear from you soon.

Furthermore we are trying to develop a biosensor and could also collaborate with other sensor teams by testing each other’s measurements.

44. Rice University Meta Analysis

Team: Rice

Team Location: Rice University, United States

Contact Information:
Tasneem Mustafa, tm39 [AT] rice.edu

Description:
Hi! We are the Rice University iGEM team. As we have been collaborating with other teams this year, it has been interesting asking teams how they came up with their project ideas. The similarities in team’s responses interested us and led us to wonder if there are common factors that play into teams choosing their projects. So we are hoping to carry out a meta analysis to further investigate the effect of location on a team’s project selection. If you are interested in helping us carry out our meta analysis, we are hoping to talk to teams individually as case studies, feel free to contact our human practices subteam lead Tasneem at tm39@rice.edu. We appreciate all your feedback!

43. Instagram Well Walk Challenge

Team: Lambert_GA

Team Location: Lambert High School in Atlanta, Georgia

Contact Information:
igem.lamb [AT] gmail.com

Description:
How fast can you run or climb stairs carrying 10 pounds of water? Find out through the #WellWalkChallenge! Millions of people lack clean water around the world. We @lambertigem are partnering with the Thirst Project to raise $12,000 for a well in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Women and children walk hours everyday carrying gallons of water, a daily struggle most of us will never face. This well would give 500 people in a community clean water for a lifetime. We challenge you to participate in the #WellWalkChallenge and donate to our cause at https://my.thirstproject.org/team/216038 to be featured in our Collaborations page! Nominate your friends and other teams! The person with the highest time and largest donation will receive a free Thirst Project t-shirt!

42. The Language Project 2.0

Team: IIT Madras

Team Location: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from India

Contact Information:
igem [AT] smail.iitm.ac.in

Description:
Warm greetings to you all,

We are Team iGEM IIT Madras from India and we are looking for prospective collaborators who can lend us a helping hand in our quest to spread the voice of science to the masses in a language in which they are most comfortable and in a form that entertains while educating young enthusiastic minds. We primarily focus on explaining the basic tenets of synthetic and molecular biology in vernacular languages and given that teams from various countries participate in iGEM, we would be immensely grateful towards any help we might get on our way to the fulfilment of this goal.

We are a cohort of passionate minds who are wholeheartedly devoted to this mission that seeks to communicate scientific ideas beyond the scope of a single language and therefore, we seek your cooperation.

As part of this collaboration, we expect you to translate a given script in your language and voice-record it. We will also send you the powerpoint presentation to which you are expected to attach the audio. Once you send us the edited presentation, we will convert it to a video and publicize it on our YouTube channels and other social media platforms. We will share the video with you and you ought to publicize on your social media platforms as well.

41. One Minute iGEM Challenge

Team: Technion-Israel

Team Location: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Contact Information:
Zeinat Awwad - 1min.igem.challenge2019 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!
We are the iGEM Technion team from Israel, and we invite you to join the One minute video challenge.
Why?
Our goal is to reach to our communities and expose them to the wonders of science, as well as getting them more familiar with our project and understand it’s important. In addition, this will be a fantastic way for future teams to see what others did in the past, and hopefully get inspired to create their own amazing projects.
What do we want?

If your team was challenged, you will have one week to do the following:

Make a one-minute video taking about your iGEM project in simple words.
At the end of the video, you will say: “That’s one minute, we are____ “, and then present the name of your group.
Send the video to: 1min.igem.challenge2019@gmail.com. In the mail, mention your team name and 5 more team names that you want to challenge
Approach the challenged teams and send us a screenshot of your message to them.

If you have any question, feel free to contact us.
We will soon upload our own one-minute video and challenge 5 more teams, and the challenge will begin. So start getting creative and show us what you’ve got!
Good luck,
iGEM Technion team

40. iGEM Lab Olympics

Team: Stony Brook

Team Location: Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA

Contact Information:
Kiara Kolaczyk- igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello iGEMers! You are challenged to participate in the first ever iGEM Lab Olympics! This friendly competition provides a unique opportunity for teams to take a moment to focus on lab safety and lab techniques in a small competition! The goal is to perform the lab techniques in a safe matter in a short period of time, while yielding positive results. How it works: below is listed 10 different events. Participating teams are able to participate in however many events they would like, in order to qualify for a certain medal level. Bronze level is 0-4 events, silver is 5-8, gold is 9 or 10 events. Within each level, a winner will be selected and win a prize. The events are as follows:

Pipetting- pipette microliters, 1.3, 12.8, 10, 70, 43, 100, 280.3, 402.74
Opening doors with gloves on, without contaminating- 3 push doors, 2 handled doors
Tube labeling and plate labeling- 5 plates, 2: 1.5-2 ml tubes, 3: 0.2ml tubes 0.2-0.5mL with date, name, and what it is
Balancing centrifuge- balance 2 tubes, 8 tubes, 9 tubes, 11 tubes, and 17 tubes in a centrifuge
Correctly weighing out substances- weigh in grams: 2.31, 10, 15.2, 37.28, 56.241
Applying full PPE on the fastest- gloves, lab coat, tying hair back, goggles
Tidying up a messy lab bench
Dirty gloves, Bunsen burner, pipettes, pipette tips, lab spill, plates, etc.
Defining lab safety by iGEM standards- quick video submission
Taking off gloves- remove ketchup covered gloves the fastest, in the correct way, without getting ketchup on you or anything/anyone else
Closing Biohazard waste box and disposing of properly

The competition starts August 9th and will end August 23rd. Remember, the goal is LAB SAFETY!!! Event submissions should be posted on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @igem.stonybrook and using the hashtag #iGEMLabOlympics. Sign up by DMing our team on Instagram or emailing at igem.sub [AT] gmail.com
Best of luck to our olympians!

39. Help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods

Team: Nanjing-China

Team Location: NanJing University. xianlin avenueqixia district, Nanjing, China

Contact Information:
Name:Zhanyu Gao
Tel：17751790805
Email：nju171850571 [AT] 163.com

Description:
We want to find some teams to help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods.

The main purpose of our project is to use a newly developed engineering strain to enrich phosphorus in sewage with low COD and convert it into a slow-release fertilizer under another controllable condition, so as to achieve domestic sewage treatment as well as recycling and sustainable utilization of resources. Therefore, we hope to find cooperation teams from around the world to help us collect phosphorus content and information in domestic sewage and sewage treatment methods, so as to help us better the plan, apply it in practical treatment to a greater extent and in a larger scope thus apply changes to the world.

38. iGEM contact address directory

Team: UNSW Australia

Team Location: University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia

Contact Information:
UNSW iGEM 2019, unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com

Description:
The UNSW iGEM team has spent countless hours tracking finding a direct method to contact teams. To combat this problem, we would like to create a directory with all the iGEM teams contact details. What we ask of other teams is to send an email to unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com with the subject directory. In contents, we would like the email address as well as Instagram and Facebook details. We will compile this information and distribute it to all teams.

37. Escape Box – Europe

Team: TelHai-Migal Israel

Team Location: Tel hai academic collage, Israel

Contact Information:
Igem2019 [AT] migal.org.il

Description:
European iGEM team? This message is for you!

European researcher’s night(ERN) is coming and we want to collaborate with a team and share our scientific activities.

Our major project for ERN is an escape box. An escape box is a miniature escape room with a bunch of scientific puzzles and riddles which lead to the box being opened.

The main idea of this collaboration is raising awareness for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Each group will pick a theme or a main SGD for the riddles path on their box. Then, we will exchange the boxs between the teams and use it during the event.

By playing the box quest we are raising awareness for UN SDGs and iGEM as well and also contributing to Integrated Human Practice!

Dates to be aware of:

Application Date Deadline: August 10th

On August 12th we will choose the most suitable team for the purpose.

Sending the box: September 1st to ensure the box arriving before the event.

We would love to hear from you!

Contact us by email: Igem2019 [AT] migal.org.il

36. Insulin Project Collaboration

Team: ULaVerne Collab

Team Location: University of La Verne, California, USA

Contact Information:
ulvigemteam [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello iGEM folks!

We are synthesizing fast-acting and long-lasting insulin in E. coli BL21 this summer. Since small-scale insulin production is a challenging yet rapidly-rising process, we would like to seek out to our other teams that are also working with insulin in hopes of exchanging data (such as regarding chassis used, insulin production and efficiency under different conditions...) and discussing improvements possibilities, future applications, and resources that we could perhaps share with each other.

Even if you are not working with insulin specifically but are still interested in forming collaborations, feel free contact us via email or social media (ULV iGEM). We look forward to hearing from you! :)

Warm regards,
ULV iGEM 2019

35. iGEM Plant Teams and Plant Modelling Collaboration

Team: Stony Brook

Team Location: Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA

Contact Information:
Anh Vo- igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello Fellow iGEM Teams! We are interested in collaborating with other teams in regards with our project. Our team is working with Agrobacterium Tumefaciens GV3101, GV2260, EHA105 and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae BY4741. We are working on seeing if Xrn1 from yeast can degrade Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) natively. We are also working on doing a Transient Expression Assay on Nicotiana Benthamiana. The plasmids we are working with are both plant expression and bacterial expression plasmids. They are both ~12-13kb. We are using Hifi assembly to ligate the plasmids.

If any teams are working with Agrobacterium, Nicotiana Benthamiana, or HiFi assembly, we would love to collaborate!

We also have potential for Dry Lab collaborations. We could be discussing what modeling each team is doing, doing code exchanges, and testing out each other's models. If you are interested in either this or any of the things mentioned above please contact us!

Thank you for your time!
Stony Brook iGEM 2019 Team

34. iGEM "Social Media" Hub

Team: Virginia

Team Location: University of Virginia, United States

Contact Information:
Alec Brewer ab4dg [AT] virginia.edu

Description:
Hello iGEM teams! How convenient would it be for all teams' social media information to be in one place? The iGEM "Social Media" Hub will serve to do just that. This forum will enable easier communication and collaboration between teams. We will arrange the data collected in a spreadsheet for all teams to use as it grows. By collecting one point of contact via email and team's social media accounts, communication can be opened far more readily at the outset of each competition year.

Add your team's social media information to the Hub by filling out this quick form: https://forms.gle/KuJfdDdsPjsan8Gv5
Link to the growing iGEM "Social Media" Hub: Click here

33. iGEMeme

Team: Saint Joseph

Team Location: Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Istanbul, Turkey

Contact Information:
igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hi iGEMers,

We are organising a meme competition. You need to make memes about iGEM. Lets see who can meme iGem the best!!! You can post your meme on Instagram with #igememesj19. The winner will be announced on Instagram and they will win a special prize!!! Lets not forget, laughing is the best medicine!!!

Our deadline is on October 21.

Thanks,
Igem Saint Joseph

32. Need thermostable proteins?

Team: Potsdam

Team Location: Universität Potsdam, Germany

Contact Information:
Bryan Nowack, igem.up [AT] gmail.com

Description:
We are a Software track team and want to generate thermostable proteins using machine learning algorithms. If you would like to have (possibly) thermostable variants of your protein of interest, we can run our model on it and give you a list of putative mutations which could increase the melting temperature of it. If we send you the variants, we would like you to test whether they are actually more thermostable so that we can verify our model in vitro and see if it actually works as intended.

If you want to collaborate with us, please send us an e-mail with your peptide (primary structure, FASTA format) and, ideally, give us additional information about your protein (for example active centers so that we can avoid mutating these and reduce the false positive rate). We expect to be able to send out the lists of possible variants starting from the end of July.

We hope to hear from you!

iGEM Potsdam 2019

31. iGEM Art Competition

Team: TU Kaiserslautern

Team Location: Technical University of Kaiserslautern; Kaiserslautern, Germany

Contact Information:
Lara Peters (igem [AT] bio.uni-kl.de)

Description:
Hello fellow iGEM-Teams,

We, the iGEM-Team of Kaiserslautern, Germany, are hosting an art competition where participants can win amazing prizes!

How does it work?
Every iGEM-Team is called to collect artworks about genetic engineering in its area. Any art technique will be accepted and a short text from each artist about their work will be requested. Thereby we want to gain an impression on the general attitude towards genetic engineering.

To find out more about the competition visit our art competition site for iGEM-Teams: https://www.uni-kl.de/hochschulgruppen/iGEM/en/collaboration/

As a motivation, the iGEM-Team collecting the most pieces will be rewarded with an artwork about their project which will be specially created for them.

If you are interested please contact us via email or social media!

Kind regards,
iGEM TU Kaiserslautern 2019

30. Emerald Challenge

Team: UCL

Team Location: University College London, UK

Contact Information:
Clare Robinson - ucl.igem [AT] ucl.ac.uk

Description:
Hello all!

Our team this year has been inspired by the action around the world on climate change, and although our project is not directly related, we wanted to incorporate sustainability into our summer as we believe in order to address this crisis we must act in all aspects of our lives!

Building from Dresden’s iGEM goes Green, and Boston 2018 GreenGEM, we’ve created a 3-step Emerald Challenge.

Step 1 is a miniguide and photo checklist challenge, we’re asking teams to follow our miniguide and picture their team completing 10 simple lab sustainability tasks (listed on our Step 1: Emerald Checklist)
Step 2 will be a handover document, that teams can create to pass down to their ‘descendents’ (institutions’ future teams) to sustain the sustainable lab practices.
Step 3 will be a ‘document your failures’ getting teams to document negative findings (often overlooked). Since any resources spent on findings that are never shared (even negative ones), are wasted resources!

We have finished and released Step 1 on our wiki and social media platforms, and are working on Steps 2 and 3. We are open to suggestions on these steps and can’t wait to hear from participating teams! Teams that finish all Steps in the challenge will be able to advertise their Emerald qualifications, and will be advertised on our wiki and presentations!

Find out more and access our miniguide and checklist for step 1 on our wiki: https://2019.igem.org/Team:UCL/Sustainability
Or contact us via email (ucl.igem@ucl.ac.uk), twitter(@UCLiGEM), instagram (@ucligem2019) or facebook!

UCL iGEM 2019

29. Styrofoam use in iGEM Labs

Team: Virginia

Team Location: University of Virginia, USA

Contact Information:
Alec Brewer (ab4dg [AT] virginia.edu)

Description:
As part of our collaboration effort, our team has joined the Expanded Polystyrene Task Force under UVA Sustainability to address Styrofoam use in labs. Our survey will estimate its use in iGEM labs to determine its global distribution, size preference and disposal. This data will be used to weigh the accuracy of similar data collected at UVA and other local waste facilities to aid use-reduction efforts. https://forms.gle/okNcWLsXADFTVDTG6

To thank teams for their contribution, everyone who fills out the form will be featured on our collaborations and/or integrated human practices tab on our wiki!

28. Cooking with iGEM

Team: Saint Joseph

Team Location: Istanbul Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Turkey

Contact Information:
igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Merhaba iGEMers,

Today we would like to announce our “Cooking with iGEM” competition. In this competition, we ask from you to cook cookie(s) that express the iGEM the best! After making the cookie(s), please send us a picture of them to our mail. The winner will be announced on our Instagram account “igem_saintjoseph” The winners will get a special prize!!! It’s time to get creative ;)

The deadline is October 21.

27. Mini-Survey about waste waters

Team: Saint Joseph

Team Location: Istanbul Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Turkey

Contact Information:
igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Bonjour iGEMers around the world,

We want to know, what you think about waste waters with an mini-survey. Our survey is the link below. Thank you for your cooperation.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffAuyjvb2C3JMh1IC-esP3H5UZ3vH2VvGf9qaCKnPc3wH7Ow/viewform?usp=sf_link

The deadline is August 20.

26. Science Sketches

Team: NYU Abu Dhabi

Team Location: New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Contact Information:
nyuad.igem2019 [AT] nyu.edu

Description:
Dear iGEM Community,

This is a collaboration request to ALL iGEM teams! Join us in showcasing the wonderment of iGEM and synthetic biology by creating a science sketch (or writing a script and storyboard for one) of your team’s project or any major techniques/principles that your project is using.

Through the series of 1-3-minute sketches, we hope to promote public awareness of the iGEM competition as well as to show how synthetic biology can be utilized to solve problems facing mankind in an innovative manner!

The aim of the science sketches is to make a collaborative educational playlist with videos from teams all over the world, about their projects and/or the scientific principle behind their project. This playlist will be made public, so that any iGEM team can use it in their outreach activities, thus enabling all teams to spread the knowledge of synthetic biology to their communities.

You can either send us the complete science sketch video or a recorded script and written storyboard, and we’ll illustrate it for you! It is preferable that we receive the video of the science sketches before the 20th of September, 2019. This would give us enough time to make the playlist and also show it in outreach events. Please make sure to add your team's name and your institution's name at the end or beginning of the video.

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We have also created a detailed description of how to make a science sketch. Hope this helps!

Curious about what science sketches are like? Check out the science sketch that our team has created for iGEM! Here are two other examples explaining RPA and LAMP for those considering making one for scientific principles/techniques.

Join us and have a lot of fun! Be creative!
We look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,
iGEM NYU Abu Dhabi 2019

25. Global Business Plan

Team: UNSW Australia

Team Location: UNSW, Australia

Contact Information:
unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com

Description:
The UNSW iGEM team are looking at bridging the gap between science and business. We are asking for help to form a global business plan scaffold for scientists. This will provide other iGEM teams, as well as the science community at large, a standardised method for commercialising ideas, building on the entrepreneurial elements of iGEM.

24. Teams working with Anaerobes (or have access to an Anaerobic cabinet)

Team: Nottingham

Team Location: UK, Nottingham

Contact Information:
Millie Johnson - nottinghamigem [AT] outlook.com

Description:
Hello everybody!

We, the Nottingham iGEM team, were wondering if anybody out there is working with anaerobes or has access to an anaerobic cabinet!

If so: email or message us on Instagram and we can talk through potentially collaborating!

Our idea is to replicate each others growth curve data (or if you have any other ideas involving working with anaerobes/anaerobic cabinets we can do that too)!

Many thanks,
Nottingham iGEM team 2019

23. The GoldenGate webinar

Team: Marburg

Team Location: Philipps University of Marburg; Marburg, Germany

Contact Information:
Jonas Freudigmann - syntex.marburg [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Golden Gate Assembly is an awesome method that uses the ability of Type IIS restriction endonucleases to cut DNA outside of its recognition sequence for scarless cloning. This provides lots of possibilities for modular cloning, giving you more freedom and control about the constructs you want to build!

If you want to learn all the necessities to build your own Golden Gate constructs, tune in to our webinar! Here's what you can expect from this session:

Motivation - Why should you use Golden Gate? What are its applications?
101 Golden Gate - everything about Type IIs restriction enzymes and different standards
Construction of your own toolbox - how to implement GoldenGate into your project
Methods - actual workflow in the lab, tips and tricks for efficient cloning
Do it yourself - we will guide you through your first constructs!
Already using GoldenGate? - brand new ideas, additions and useful expansions

These are the dates on which the webinar will take place:

Tuesday, July 30th 2019 10:00 CET
Wednesday, July 31st 2019 18:00 CET
Thursday, August 8th 2019 24:00 CET

Furthermore, we created a slack workspace that you can join by following this link. We will post all our protocols and provide you with support for all the questions that might arise when working with GoldenGate.

Just contact us, check our social media or fill out this google form, if you want to join:

Instagram: igem.marburg.2019
Twitter: @iGEMmarburg2019
Facebook: @IGEMMarburg2019

See you in the webinar!
Your Syntex Team from Marburg

22. The Voice iGEM Contest

Team: Wageningen UR

Team Location: Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Contact Information:
Robert Hooftman - igemsongcontest [AT] gmail.com

Description:
To our beloved iGEMers out there,
From the central office of the iGEM Wageningen 2019 team, we have been designing a plan to create the ultimate merge of iGEM, science and art. That’s why we present to you The Voice iGEM contest! The only thing you need to do as a team is to send us a PARODY song via email before the 11th AUGUST!!, which should have original lyrics (feel free to express your misery) and be sung by one or multiple members of your team. It may include a video or not, that’s up to you. The songs will be evaluated by a very professional jury at Wageningen University and three winners will be announced:

Best lyrics
Best singing voice
Best video

The winners will have their parody song posted on our glamourous wiki.
Are you up for a challenge in the most iconic scientific song contest ever? Then join The Voice iGEM and send us your parody song before the 11th August! You can sign up by sending us a message via Instagram (@igem.wageningen) or by sending an email to igemsongcontest [at] gmail.com

21. How to iGEM - a video collaboration project

Team: TU Dresden

Team Location: BIOTEC, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Contact Information:
Mara Müller, tudigem2019 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
We are planning to do a video-series of very short explanation videos about the most important points and challenges that students face during the competition. It is not only going to be a collaboration between this years iGEM teams but also to all future students taking part in the collaboration. Our experience and solutions will help future teams navigating the requirements of the competition. The following videos are planned:

What it iGEM?
How to -> Wiki? (How to upload text, documents and pictures in the wiki)
How to-> Distribution Kit? (What does it contain, what can you use it for an how)
How to -> Biorbick? (How to use biobricks, and how to design your own)

Teams can collaborate with us by sending us ideas on what they think future students will need help with or by telling us what their team was struggeling with. If the idea fits in the concept of this video-series the collaborating team can send us a script for a video and we will record the audio and add visuals to help the explanation. Each video will be around 1-2minutes, so the script should not be longer then one page.

20. Sorting CereMonera

Team: IISc-Bangalore

Team Location: Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Contact Information:
igemiisc [AT] gmail.com, Instagram: igem_iisc

Description:
Namaste fellow iGEMers!

iGEM is not only a platform for students to showcase their scientific expertise but also to spread the ideas of synthetic biology. Therefore, this year’s iGEM team of Indian Institute of Science(IISc) has come up with a fun & engaging way to collaborate with other iGEM teams via a unique challenge, the ‘Sorting CereMonera.’

In this challenge, all the participating iGEM teams will play the role of the SORTING HAT (from the popular Harry Potter universe). They will sort microorganisms (bacteria, fungi or viruses) into different Houses/Characters of Harry Potter and/or Game of Thrones. Teams will have to justify their sorting creatively, through a picture, drawing, video or comic strip which must then be posted on Instagram (tagging our ID and hashtag). We intend to show the best comic strips and ideas to students during our sessions in schools and colleges. And of course, the most creative team wins a small prize from us.

Since the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones fan communities are extremely widespread, with this challenge, we hope to ignite a spark among the non-scientific community to encourage learning. Thus, we not only expect the challenge to be a good team building exercise but we also aim to reach out to a larger community and spread knowledge about biology.

Cheers.

Thanking you,
iGEM team
Indian Institute of Science 2019

19. Who Wore it Best?

Team: Stony Brook

Team Location: Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA

Contact Information:
Kiara Kolaczyk - igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Do you have what it takes to make a SINGLE labcoat, into something ready for the runway? Stony Brook iGEM presents the #labcoatchallege

How it works:
Take one standard lab coat, and without cutting, sewing, duct tape, etc, ONLY by tying, make the lab coat into an outfit other than the standard lab coat use. DO NOT DO THIS IN THE LAB, lab coats should only be worn in the standard way, when in the lab.

When your team has come up with their design, have a member “model” it off by walking down a “runway” to whatever music you think matches your outfit design. Once you have created your design, post your video on your team's Instagram page and tag @igem.stonybrook and one other team that you are challenging to a "walk off." The challenge will start July 1st and end July 14th... and the winner will be announced! Email the Stony Brook team at igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com or DM us @igem.stonybrook on Instagram to sign up and participate! The submissions will be posted on JULY 15th on our team’s Instagram, @igem.stonybrook, Twitter, @IGEMSBU, and our Facebook page, @iGEM at Stony Brook, where you can cast your votes for which design you like best!

Best of luck to the competitors!
Stony Brook iGEM 2019 Team

18. Collaborative Comic

Team: Wroclaw

Team Location: Wroclaw, Poland

Contact Information:
igem.upwr [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hi fellow iGEM teams!
We'd like you to join us in promotion of our project by making a collaborative comic with us. For this we need three photos of you (one about you running away, another about you entering a building - preferably your university with its visible name, and the last one in a building, scared). Please, if you're interested - send them till 7th of July. Best photos will be included in the comic!

17. Request to optimize team's device

Team: CMUQ

Team Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar

Contact Information:
igem.cmuq [AT] gmail.com, Instagram: cmuq.igem

Description:
This year our team is working to optimize our last year's device which uses CRISPR to help in the diagnosis of autosomal recessive diseases. If you have any experience in modeling proteins or testing their activity, please contact us! We would also like to help any of the iGEMers in sequencing, FLO cytometry, and protein purification. We look forward to working with other teams and adding to this collaborative platform.

16. Creating a Wiki Wealth of Knowledge

Team: US AFRL CarrollHS

Team Location: Carroll High School, USA

Contact Information:
The iGEM Lab Pats - igem [AT] carrollhs.org

Description:
The wiki is a vital part in telling the judges, public, current, and past iGEM teams about your team. Here's another vital iGEM truth - everyone dreads the wiki freeze and many teams are hesitant to begin their wiki. It can be a struggle, but we're here to help.

What are we doing? We're putting together a wiki wealth of knowledge - a comprehensive guide that combines all wiki knowledge from teams past and present, source code that you can use on your wiki, and a YouTube video series where we walk you through all the major things you need to know about everything wiki related.

Who are we looking to help us? Everyone. We need first year teams to give us feedback on if our guide covers all of their questions and how it helped them create their wiki. We need teams to write up a couple bullet points describing how they create their wiki. If you use our guide/video series in any way, please let us know so that we can make sure to thank you on our collaborations page!

What inspired us? We are a third year team who puts many hours into our wiki every year. Our very first year, we collaborated with a team who answered a lot of our initial questions about how to code our wiki; this helped us immensely and helped to inspire this collaboration.

Thank you so much and we can't wait to hear from you about your wikis!
US_AFRL_CarrollHS (yes, the Mike the Microbe team - see collaboration request #9)

15. Promoters Needed for Bioelectric Sensor

Team: Tufts

Team Location: Tufts University, USA

Contact Information:
Aiden Lewis, aiden.lewis [AT] tufts.edu

Description:
This year, Tufts iGEM is interested in improving upon the electrical concentration sensor in Shewanella, designed by Cornell 2012. We are interested in enhancing the sensing accuracy and precision, as well as expanding the sensor for use in detecting other chemicals.

If you have an idea for a promoter or other regulatory element dependent on presence of a chemical, please don't hesitate to message us about it! Better yet, if you are working on a sensor/detection project yourself, we could try our sensor output with your sensing design!

14. iGEMxSDGs challenge

Teams: Costa Rica, Tuebingen, and TAS Taipei

Team Location: Costa Rica, Germany, and Taiwan

Contact Information:
igemxsdgs [AT] gmail.com

Description:
The iGEMxSDGs challenge aims to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. The iGEM teams are challenged to map their project to 1 to 4 SDGs and post about it online. A template to keep the usage guidelines of the UN is proposed on our official collaboration subsite: https://2019.igem.org/Team:Costa_Rica/SDG-Challenge. The iGEMxSDGs challenge is spead on social media by being tagged by a team that has already completed the challenge. Each team will call 3 to 4 other teams to follow them. The mappings will be stored in the gallery of our website.

The challenge will launch on June 22nd 2019.

A contact for the challenge is: igemxsdgs [AT] gmail.com

The contact for the video conference on 14th September hosted by Team Taipei: igemtas [AT] gmail.com

13. International Stratospheric and Space Legislation

Team: Sao Carlos-Brazil

Team Location: Federal University of São Carlos - Brazil

Contact Information:
ufscar.igem2018 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello, fellow iGEMmers! This year, our team's project is the construction of a UV radiation-resistant fermenting yeast, that could be used to optimize fermentation processes in alcohol industries and also in the future colonization of other planets, such as Mars.

In order to test if our engineered yeast would actually survive in an environment as hostile as Mars, we had planned to perform experiments on a stratospheric probe, since the stratosphere has comparable conditions to the Red Planet when it comes to radiation incidence, pressure, and temperature. In order to find out if and how we could do that, we have decided to conduct an overall review on different countries' and space agencies' legislation on stratospheric and space experimentation, to understand what was expected in cases like this.

So far, we have found little to no information on the topic since most legislations only discuss biological experimentation inside a laboratory or planned releases, and this case fits in neither. We also found some legislation in Brazil related to experimentation on a "containment regimen", but no specifications on what this "containment" would be.

This is why we need your help! And you can do so by answering some of our questions about this kind of legislation on your country on this form: https://forms.gle/YvDiCXtohfJcZ5oc7.

Feel free to leave any of the questions blank if you can't find the information requested, and if you have any doubts please contact us at ufscar.igem2018 [AT] gmail.com. Thank you!

12. Analysing the Menstrual Waste Crisis

Team: MITADTBIO Pune

Team Location: MIT-ADT University, Pune

Contact Information:
iGEM MIT-ADT Pune : igem.mitadtbio.pune [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello fellow iGEM teams. We at MIT-ADT University are working on the menace of ever increasing plastic wastes, particularly menstrual waste. As part of our project we would like to assess the level of awareness regarding menstrual waste in countries across the globe. iGEM provides us with an excellent opportunity to do so, facilitating you, our fellow iGEMers to take part in this survey and help us approach our project with a more holistic outlook.

You can help us by filling in the survey available at the below link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScw5PZeZnLlQxLopdcVJgRFIousLC3GmkjvvceOwzG8ZYq1EQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Do feel free to contact us and share your views, experiences and ideas about the plastic waste crisis we find ourselves in. You can find us at: Igem.mitadtbio.pune [AT] gmail.com or @igemsbsr on Instagram

Note: None of the questions are a compulsion and you can skip any of them while your responses will remain anonymous.

11. iGEM Art Exposition

Team: Nantes

Team Location: Université de Nantes, France

Contact Information:
iGEM Nantes : igemnantes2019 [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Bonjour fellow iGEM teams,

We, Nantes iGEM team, are really excited to announce that we will be holding an iGEM art exposition here in Nantes at the end of August! We would love to be able to present works of art that express Synthetic Biology through any creative means you are inspired by. To help the flow of creative juices we have come up with three themes that might spark more interest for you:

The position of Humans in Synthetic Biology
The fusion of 2 different worlds (Engineering and Biology)
The impact of Synthetic Biology on the world.

To participate please contact us by email or through our social media (@IGEMNantes) and we will give you more specific details concerning our adress, exact dates etc. You can then send in your artwork digitally (photography, digital artwork) or by mail (painting, sculpture, etc...) by August 9th.

Your team is completely welcome to be present during the art exposition :)

10. Minterlab

Team: SoundBio

Team Location: SoundBio Lab, USA

Contact Information:
Sophie Liu - igem [AT] sound.bio

Description:
Hi 2019 iGEM teams! As you may know iGEM 2019 does not have an Interlab. So this year we wanted to invite teams from any country to participate in Minterlab (Mini Interlab)!

What is Minterlab? Minterlab takes the concept of having scientists around the world working on one experiment and enables scientific experimentation to elementary and middle schoolers through an Interlab-like opportunity.

How does it work? Teams around the world will host camp sessions that are 5 days long. Each day will have lessons will be 1-2 hours. However when and where a camp session is held can be chosen by the hosting team. One Minterlab session should cover a curriculum that we will prepare together (but feel free to put your own spin on it!) as well as the main Minterlab experiment which we can develop together. At the end of the summer, we will compile all the “data” accumulated from the Minterlab sessions across the world and compile it on one website for everyone to see!

If you are interested in further details or wish to participate in Minterlab, please email igem [AT] sound.bio by *June 23rd 2019 11:59 PM PST*

9. Mike the Microbe

Team: US AFRL CarrollHS

Team Location: Carroll High School, USA

Contact Information:
The iGEM Lab Pats - igem [AT] carrollhs.org

Description:
Each year, we send out our team mascot, Mike the Microbe, as a "Flat Stanley" and ask other teams to take pictures with him and post them on social media. We would like to do that again this year, along with sending our newest mascot, Chia the Chitinase.

8. iGEM Instagram Challenge

Team: Stony Brook

Team Location: Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA

Contact Information:
Kiara Kolaczyk - igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello fellow iGEM teams!
You are invited to take participate in our one week Instagram Challenge starting on Sunday, June 16th! The goal is to promote unity between the iGEM teams, and increase iGEM teams’ internet footprint through social media postings! We have created a theme for each day for one week:

Sunday: Introduce your Project #iGEMproject2019
Monday: Meme Monday #mememonday
Tuesday: Agarart #iGEMagarart
Wednesday: Lab bonding, photo of your team hanging out outside of the lab #iGEMTeam
Thursday: Fail day #labfails
Friday: Vine/Youtube video remake done your way #makeittheiGEMway
Saturday: Shenanigans #iGEMShenanigans

The Instagram challenge will take place from June 16th through June 22nd. Please let us know if your team will be participating so we can feature your posts on our pages: our team’s Instagram, @igem.stonybrook, Twitter, @IGEMSBU, and our Facebook page, @iGEM at Stony Brook.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing what posts your teams come up with!
Stony Brook 2019 iGEM Team

7. Virtual Protocol Donation Box

Team: uOttawa

Team Location: University of Ottawa, Canada

Contact Information:
Victoria Feng - uoigem [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Hello fellow iGEM teams! This year, our team is dedicated to creating a protocol handbook in addition to our main project. The purpose is to make synthetic biology techniques easier and more accessible for future endeavors and iGEM teams. We believe that the wealth of knowledge and unique techniques from teams across the globe will make lab life easier, fun and interesting. Thus, the virtual donation box is made so that protocols from different iGEM teams are free to view and try. It is highly appreciated if your team could contribute by uploading a few protocols to our virtual donation box.

Please indicate the type of protocol, your team name and country in the title for the files. Example: E.coli Inoculation - uOttawa iGEM (Canada)

Invite to the donation box: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AlC9Wk9pEy1uqpixq8MmoctnYnYWDhBp

If your team is having trouble sharing the protocol on the weblink, feel free to send us an email and we will place it in for you.
Thank you and hope to see you all at the Giant Jamboree.

6. iGEM Aptamers Hub initiative

Team: Athens

Team Location: Athens, Greece

Contact Information:
igemaptamers [AT] gmail.com

Description:
We would like to gather all aptamers-related iGEM 2019 Teams, in order to set up the iGEM Aptamers Hub. The iGEM Aptamers Hub shall serve as a shared resource for all iGEM teams that are doing a project using aptamers. This hub will contain information on aptamers, their uses, wet and dry lab protocols/tools, past iGEM aptamer projects, organised aptamer-related parts from the registry, etc. We hope that this will allow more teams to integrate the use of aptamers in their projects and find the information or expertise they might be lacking.

If your team is focusing or just using aptamers this year and you would like to contribute to the iGEM Aptamers Hub, please contact us at igemaptamers [AT] gmail.com.

5. Demographic's and Inclusivity Survey 2019

Team: UAlberta

Team Location: The University of Alberta, Canada

Contact Information:
Talia Dixon uabigem [AT] gmail.com

Description:
iGEM is an organization that is driven by young people's idealism. Because of this, iGEM provides the perfect atmosphere to drive progress within STEM both technically and socially. Creating an inclusive space starts by being aware of the shortcomings of the organization, and from there moving to address any issues that prevent the organization from achieving diversity.

The UAlberta iGEM team is interested in investigating the age, sex, gender, and race demographics of iGEM teams, to examine if there are any inclusion disparities in iGEM teams, and learn more about iGEMers experiences so that any issues can be remedied.

How you and your team can help us is by completing this survey https://forms.gle/uTTwJ9RV5ciN8f5S9, and emailing us to share your thoughts about inclusivity in iGEM.

Note: You can skip any questions on the survey that you would like, and will remain anonymous. If you or your team would like to fill out the survey in another language please email us as we have translated the survey into a verity of languages to make it as accessible as possible!

4. What is your dream synthetic biology laboratory?

Team: OUC-China

Team Location: Ocean University of China
Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China

Contact Information:
Jenny Bao - oucigem AT 163 DOT com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!
This year our team's lab address was relocated----we got a brand new lab !
Our team members hope to redesign our lab. So we hope to get help from your team.

You can help us in this way:
1.Draw a plan of your lab and give us some photographs of your lab.
2.Briefly introduce the main laboratory apparatus in the laboratory.
3.We are willing to know what experiment your lab can do. (The more detailed the better)
4.Show a picture of your dream synthetic biology lab in your email and add a detailed description.
If we successfully receive your email, we will promptly reply it and appreciate your help in our team's wiki. Also, we will select the best design we think and show it in our wiki.
PS: At the jamboree, we will bring a mysterious gift from China to your team as a ‘thank you’.

3. The Colony-Picture Project

Team:Marburg

Team Location: Philipps University of Marburg ; Marburg, Germany

Contact Information:
Cedric Brinkmann - syntex.marburg [AT] gmail.com

Description:
Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!

Have you ever imagined having less work in the laboratory? Being able to outsource it somehow, to focus on other (important) tasks? Well, we did! In recent years automated lab processes have improved.

Our contribution to the iGEM-Opentrons-Community will be a colony picking bot, more precisely, modules and scripts, that allow others iGEM Teams to turn their own OT-2 into a colony picking robot.

To achieve this goal we need the help of other iGEM Teams. We need to train the artificial intelligence with data, so that it is able to recognise the colonies by itself. This is where we need your help: As most iGEM Teams are working with E. Coli, it would be nice if you could provide us with pictures of your agar plates with colonies! So that we are able to compile a large database of pictures to train the AI.

We will publish every script, code and module we create and we also give away some prizes! The first ten teams that send us 100 pictures will get some small surprise and the team which sends us the most pictures until 31st of July will get a bigger surprise!

All further informations for the collaboration, like registration form and instructions, can be found at www.vinca.de/igem.

Thank you for participating and helping us out!

Greetings from Marburg,
your SYNTEX Team

2. Building an International iGEM Team Well

Team:Lambert iGEM

Team Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Contact Information:
Michelle Wu, igem.lamb [AT] gmail.com

Description:
This year, Lambert iGEM is partnering with the Thirst Project, the largest youth-led water organization in the world, to build an international iGEM well for a community in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Our goal is to raise $12,000 to change the lives of these villagers through the combined effort of international iGEM teams! We would love your help raising donations, and we will be sure to put your team's name on the iGEM well for any amount contributed. Collaborate with us while making a difference. Thank you so much! Let's end the water crisis together!

Here is the link to our fundraising page! https://my.thirstproject.org/team/216038

1. Postcard project

Team:iGEM Duesseldorf

Team Location: Duesseldorf, Germany

Contact Information:
igem[at]hhu.de

Description:
Hello iGEM Teams,
As we all know, iGEM is not only about our projects, but also about engaging the public with synthetic biology. In order to do so, the previous iGEM teams of the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf created a project to promote synthetic biology in public by using self-designed postcards. Each year the amount of participating iGEM teams has grown, with a big pool of beautiful and funny postcards as a result. We would like to continue this community effort one more time and ask YOU to be a part of this collaboration.

How does it work? Every participating team designs a postcard which shows an image related to synthetic biology (or your topic) on the front and a small informational text on the back. Afterwards each team sends a package with their postcards to us, they are exchanged with the postcards from other teams, and the package is sent back. In the end, every participating iGEM-team is going to have collected postcards from all over the world. The received postcards can then be shared with people in the neighborhood, during public events, at the Giant Jamboree etc.If you want to check out the previously designed postcards for inspiration, visit the wiki of Duesseldorf 2016, the wiki of Duesseldorf-Cologne 2017 or the wiki of Dueseldorf 2018.

How to design your postcards: Standard postcard format (A6; 14,8cm x 10,5cm) Image related to your project or synthetic biology on the front Small informational text on the back If you are interested in joining us, please let us know until the 15th of June, so we can figure out how many postcards each team should print and send. Please don't forget to include your address! Important: This is not the deadline for sending and designing the postcard!

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Much love,
iGEM Team Duesseldorf 2019

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-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_2">Science Sketch</a> -  Team NYU Abu Dhabi <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_3">Dear diary</a> -  Team Linkoping Sweden <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_4">Fighting Stigma Against Synthetic Biology!</a> -  Team Harvard<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_5">A Better Way to Build</a> -  Team William and Mary<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_6">Engineered Probiotics Around the World</a> -  Team Unesp Brazil<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_7">Survey To Fight Water Pollution</a> -  Team IIT Kanpur<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_8">Sharing FACS beads for Interlab</a> -  Team Ruia-Mumbai<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_9">League of Superheroes</a> -  Team RHIT<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_10">Plate Reader for Inter-Lab</a> -  Team CUNY Kingsborough <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_11">Instagram Challenge For July</a> -  Team Stony Brook <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_12">Think of the PLOSibilities Blog Postings</a> -  Team Dalhousie <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_13"><i>Acinetobacter baylyi</i> ADP1 support</a> -  Team NAWI Graz <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_14">Entrepreneurship in iGEM</a> -  Team Tec Chihuahua <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_15">Invasive Species Survey</a> -  Team UNebraska-Lincoln <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_16"> LatinAmerica iGEM Group</a> -  Team TecCEM <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_17"> Burn General Knowledge Survey</a> -  Team TecCEM <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_18"> Proof Reading Help </a> -  Team Nottingham <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_19"> Worst Gel Electrophoresis Scrapbook </a> -  Team UNebraska-Lincoln <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_20"> Water Samples--H2O NO! </a> -  Team ULaverne Collab <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_21"> -US COLLAB - </a> -  Team Exeter <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_22">ChassiDex Data </a> - Team IIT-Madras <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_23">Language Project </a> - Team IIT-Madras <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_24">Survey on Public Engagement of iGEM Teams </a> - Team UCopenhagen <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_25">After iGEM get together </a> - Team Tec-Monterrey <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_26">Survey on Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern </a> -  Team Bielefeld-CeBiTec <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_27">Build Your Wiki Faster! </a> -  Team Virginia<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_28">Mike the Microbe </a> -  Team US AFRL CarrollHS <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_29">Plant Project   </a> - Team Cardiff Wales  <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_30">Bio-Bricking Tool (BBrickIt!)</a> - Team ICT-Mumbai<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_31">Recombination Strategies</a> - Team UConn<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_32">WorldWide Video Collaboration “Labs Like You”</a> - Team TecCEM <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_33">Survey on Chassis Bacteria and Nicotine</a> - Team SKLMT-China <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_34">Wiki Webscraper</a> - Team Virginia<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_35">Cancer Relapse Detection - CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) and Dumbbell Probes (Rolling Circle Amplification)</a> - Team EPFL<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_36">Cancer
- Relapse Detection - CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) for point-of-care Implementation</a> - Team EPFL<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_37">Comic Book Translation Request</a> - Team OUC-China<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_38">Survey Assessment: Creating a better iGEM environment for you</a> - Team UC San Diego<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_39">A better iGEM for future teams!</a> - Team Uppsala<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_40">Multi-function collaboration</a> - Team AFCM-EGYPT<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_41">Verifying Degradation Switch Model</a> - Team Edinburgh UG<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_42">Working with Bacteriophages: A Primer</a> - Team IISc-Bangalore<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_43">London Synthbio and iGEM outreach</a> - Team Imperial College<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_44">London iGEM trouble shooting meet-up</a> - Teams Imperial College, UCL, KCL UK, and Westminster UK<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_45">Team Communication and Issues Survey</a> - Teams Imperial College, UCL, KCL UK, and Westminster UK<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_46">Push Your Push Via Our Platform</a> - Team ECUST <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_47">Building an interactive website for Protein Sequence Space Exploration!</a> - Team Vilnius-Lithuania-OG <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_48">The iGEM Plastic Lab</a> - Team Westminster UK <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_49">Help us Build Our Promoter Tool</a> - Team Manchester <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_50">Variability crushes the system - Interlaboratory Collaboration</a> - Team Thessaloniki<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_51">Follow Me To iGEM</a> - Team Bulgaria<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_52">Offering help for silver medal criteria
-"collaboration"</a> - Team Duesseldorf<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_53">Comic Book Popularization Request</a> - Team OUC-China<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_54">Funniest Failure Experience</a> - Team Fudan-CHINA<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_55">Come Join iGEM Guidebook Questionnaire</a> - Team Warwick<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_56">Synthetic Biology Survey </a> - Team Thessaloniki<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_57"> iGEM 2019 Science/Art Photo Contest </a> - Team EPFL <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_58"> Characterization of BioBrick composite parts </a> - Team Valencia_UPV <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_59"> The Big Online Debate</a> - Team UCL <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_60"> Share your healthy recipe! </a> - Team HAFS <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_61"> The optimization of prokaryotic expression conditions and expression and purification of CSCA protein </a> - Team AHUT-China <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_62"> Emoji Challenge</a> - Team Nanjing-China <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_63"> Analysing the variability of cell-free expression systems with an interlab experiment</a> - Team Paris Bettencourt <br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_64"> Unmask the shores-Beach clean-up  </a> - Team VIT Vellore<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_65"> Wikistats</a> - Team Rotterdam HR<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_66"> Outreach Activity Booklet Translation</a> - Team Washington<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_67"> Color Q Download</a> - Team Lambert<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_68"> Survey on synthetic biology and infectious biofilms</a> - Team Pasteur Paris<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_69"> Cloning and Transformation Help Request</a> - Team McMaster<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_70"> Wiki Tutorial</a> - Team Washington<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_71"> Survey about food problem</a> - Team Botchan Lab Tokyo<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_72"> iGEM Safety Collaboration - Safety Cases</a> - Team UNebraska-Lincoln<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_73"> Survey on the topics sugar and sweeteners </a> - Team XJTU-China<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_74"> Need help quantifying color? </a> - Team Lambert GA<br>
-. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collab_74"> "X" ng of DNA per 1 ug/mL EtBr Dilution Images</a> - Team CUNY Kingsborough<br>
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+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> *** Contact Information ***</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  </p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> ************** </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> ************</p>
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+<ul>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_1">Postcard project </a> - Team Duesseldorf <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_2">Building an International iGEM Team Well </a> - Team Lambert GA <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_3">The Colony-Picture Project</a> - Team Marburg <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_4">What is your dream synthetic biology laboratory?</a> - Team OUC-China<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_5">Demographic's and Inclusivity Survey 2019</a> - Team UAlberta<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_6">iGEM Aptamers Hub initiative</a> - Team Athens<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_7">Virtual Protocol Donation Box</a> - Team uOttawa<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_8">iGEM Instagram Challenge</a> - Team Stony Brook<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_9">Mike the Microbe</a> - Team US AFRL Carroll HS<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_10">Minterlab</a> - Team SoundBio<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_11">iGEM Art Exposition </a> - Team Nantes <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_12">Analysing the Menstrual Waste Crisis </a> - Team MITADTBIO Pune <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_13">International Stratospheric and Space Legislation </a> - Team Sao Carlos-Brazil <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_14">iGEMxSDGs challenge </a> - Teams Costa Rica, Tuebingen, and TAS Taipei <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_15">Promoters Needed for Bioelectric Sensor </a> - Team Tufts <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_16">Creating a Wiki Wealth of Knowledge </a> - Team US AFRL CarrollHS <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_17">Request to optimize team's device </a> - Team CMUQ <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_18">Collaborative Comic </a> - Team Wroclaw <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_19">Who Wore it Best? </a> - Team Stony Brook <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_20">Sorting CereMonera </a> - Team IISc-Bangalore <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_21">How to iGEM - a video collaboration project </a> - Team TU Dresden <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_22">The Voice iGEM Contest </a> - Team Wageningen UR <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_23">The GoldenGate webinar</a> - Team Marburg <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_24">Teams working with Anaerobes (or have access to an Anaerobic cabinet)</a> - Team Nottingham <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_25">Global Business Plan</a> - Team UNSW Australia<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_26">Science Sketches</a> - Team NYU Abu Dhabi<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_27">Mini-Survey about waste waters</a> - Team Saint Joseph<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_28">Cooking with iGEM</a> - Team Saint Joseph<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_29">Styrofoam use in iGEM Labs</a> - Team Virginia<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_30">Emerald Challenge</a> - Team UCL<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_31">iGEM Art Competition</a> - Team TU Kaiserslautern<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_32">Need thermostable proteins?</a> - Team Potsdam <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_33"> iGEMeme</a> - Team Saint Joseph<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_34"> iGEM "Social Media" Hub</a> - Team Virginia<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_35"> iGEM Plant Teams and Plant Modelling Collaboration</a> - Team Stony Brook<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_36">Insulin Project Collaboration</a> - Team ULaVerne_Collab<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_37">Escape Box – Europe</a> - Team TelHai-Migal Israel<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_38">iGEM contact address directory</a> - Team UNSW Australia<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_39">Help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods</a> - Team Nanjing-China <br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_40">iGEM Lab Olympics</a> - Team Stony Brook<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_41">One Minute iGEM Challenge</a> - Team Technion-Israel<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_42">The Language Project 2.0</a> - Team IIT Madras<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_43">Instagram Well Walk Challenge</a> - Team Lambert<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_44">Rice University Meta Analysis</a> - Team Rice<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_45">PhaGEM</a> - Team NAWI Graz<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_46">Library: Receptors and aptamers of rare cell lines</a> - Team DUT China A<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_47">Cell Lysis Methods Survey</a> - Team Tartu TUIT<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_48">Maybe you need a comic book!</a> - Team OUC-China<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_49"> Kings College London Bio-security standards survey</a> - Team Kings College London<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_50"> iGEM Weather Contingency Plan</a> - Team UPRM<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_51"> A map filling game to investigate pollution </a> - Team HBUT-China<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_52"> Let's fight food allergens together !!!</a> - Team Strasbourg<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_53"> Texas Red as a standard for measuring mCherry</a> - Team Bielefeld-CeBiTec<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_54"> Beta-test our codon harmonisation program!</a> - Team Sydney Australia<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_55"> What is iGEM for you?</a> - Team UAAAN<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_56"> Haiku: a poetic collaboration </a> - Team GO Paris Saclay<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_57"> Start-Up Guide for Highschool iGEM Teams </a> - Team East Chapel Hill HS<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_58"> Could you please take a picture of Mikania micrantha for us?</a> - Team SZU-China<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_59"> Testing an educational board game</a> - Team KCL UK<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_60"> Testing and/or Translating Outreach Booklet Activities</a> - Team Washington<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_61"> Are you aware enough? </a> - Team IISER Kolkata<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_62"> In how many languages can you translate a comic ? </a> - Team Evry Paris_Saclay<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_63"> iGEM worldmap </a> - Team Hamburg<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_64"> iGEM-2019 Blitz Chess Tournament </a> - Team Moscow<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_65"> Survey about tick-borne diseases</a> - Team Moscow<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_66"> iGEM2019 Spartakiade</a> - Team Moscow<br>
+<!--67. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_67"> Make your fluorescent masterpiece!</a> - Team Moscow<br>-->
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_68"> BBA game</a> - Team CU<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_69"> Wiki and poster proofreading/editing</a> - Team OhioState<br>
+. <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Teams/Collaborations#collaboration_70"> Primers Magazine - The Open SynBio Compendium</a> - Team SASTRA_Thanjavur<br>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
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+        			<div class="title"> 70. Primers Magazine - The Open SynBio Compendium</div>
-					<h3> 75. "X" ng of DNA per 1 ug/mL EtBr Dilution Images</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> SASTRA_Thanjavur</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> CUNY Kingsborough</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> SASTRA Deemed University (Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India)
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> CUNY Kingsborough Community College, NY, USA</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Amy Yang - Amy.Yang35 [AT] myhunter.cuny.edu</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Priyannth and Shivaramakrishna (igemsastra.2019 [AT] gmail.com)
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>
- My name is Amy and I am the Modeling and Design Team Leader from the CUNY Kingsborough iGEM team. We are currently under the Open Track. Our goal this year is to better characterize a DNA quantification protocol through the use of EtBr. We hope the protocol will help future teams with limited resources to be able to complete their projects. In order to do this, we are seeking to collaborate with other teams to collect the necessary data - the more data we have the better we can characterize the results from this protocol. If your team has access to EtBr, we would greatly appreciate if you could prepare samples of DNA of varying concentrations of your choice (for instance 0.5 ng/µl) and a 1 µg/mL dilution of EtBr (for the amount of EtBr needed, multiple the amount of samples of DNA you will have by 12 uL). We would prefer a DNA concentration of less than 31.25 ng/uL if possible. Then, create a spot by adding 1 uL of the diluted DNA to 9 uL of diluted EtBr -- for a total of 10 uL per spot (see attached picture for example). After mixing each sample well, please shine the spot with UV light (you could use a lamp or spectrophotometer) for at least a minute, and send us the images with the concentration of each spot attached. We would like at least five samples -- with the more the better. Feel free to email us with any questions. Please let us know as soon as possible if you can do this, and it would be great if you could also spread the word to any collaborators with whom you may work with.
 </p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>
+<b>&#60;VF2&#62;</b><br>
+Hello!
+<br><br>
+We are the SASTRA iGEM Team from India!
+<br><br>
+In pursuit of a wide-reaching collaboration with the amazing teams participating in iGEM this year, we have come up with a magazine idea aimed at delineating the basics of synthetic biology to a non-iGEMer or even a non-biologist.
+<br><br>
+    Feel free to do any of the following and more:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Write <b>articles</b> about all things SynBio, from lab work to startups</li>
+<li>Dole out quirky <b>puns</b></li>
+<li>Share your <b>interview transcripts</b> with field experts you may have reached out</li>
+<li>SynBio themed <b>photographs</b> and <b>artwork</b> (we may feature these!)</li>
+<li>SynBio Organism Featurette: A few words about your favourite chassis organism </li>
+<li>Protocol demystification: Explain an experimental protocol you love the most in just 3 sentences</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+The Deadline for submissions is October 18th 2019. <br>
+We look forward to your collaboration!<br>
+Please fill out this Google Form to let us know you are in!<br>
+<a href="https://forms.gle/djpeM9UPTCMbRj1X7">https://forms.gle/djpeM9UPTCMbRj1X7</a>
+<br><br>
+Happy writing!
+<br><br>
+With much anticipation,<br>
+SASTRA iGEM Team
+<b>&#60;VR&#62;</b>
+<br><br>
+P.S. To those of you wondering why our content is "enclosed" within VF2 and VR, our magazine collaboration is called "<b>primers</b>" for lack of a better name.
+</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 69. Wiki and poster proofreading/editing</div>
-					<h3> 74. Need help quantifying color?</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> OhioState</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, United States)
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> kimmel.95 [at] osu.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>iGEM at The Ohio State University wants to help 1-2 teams from non-English speaking countries by editing the writing on their wikis/posters for clarity and grammar. If you think our help could be useful, contact Christopher Kimmel at kimmel.95 [at] osu.edu. We plan to begin reviewing drafts of other teams' wiki content around Tuesday, the 15th of October.
+<br><br>
+Priority will be given to teams with few or no native English speakers, but teams from English-speaking countries are also welcome to get in touch.
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Lambert GA</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lambert High School</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Janet Standeven - jstandeven [AT] forsyth.k12.ga.us </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>
-Need to measure color expression?  Lambert iGEM has an easily 3-d printed and android compatible app for measuring any color expression.  Please email us jstandeven@forsyth.k12.ga.us for 3-d printing files and android playstore information.  Give us feedback to win a revolutionary centrifuge at the Jamboree.
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+        			<div class="title"> 68. BBA game</div>
-					<h3> 73. Survey on the topics sugar and sweeteners</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> CU</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Cairo University - Egypt
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Mariam Ezz El-Arab - igemcu [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Explaining BioBricks assembly to people who are not familiar with Synthetic Biology is a hard task. Where Synthetic Biology is a new emerging science, mainly -in Egypt- it’s not common between Professors, Academics and Students.
+<br><br>
+We found that Richard Feynman’s famous quote "What I cannot create, I do not understand." is so true. As visualising, designing and building the genetic circuits is much more beneficial than just illustrating it in a theoretical way.
+<br><br>
+For that reason, we decided to come up with the BBa game; to mimic what really happens inside the actual reaction. To play this game, each team should be provided with basic parts/BioBricks (Promoters, RBS, CDS, Tags, Terminators, Linkers, Plasmid backbone, required enzymes and reagents) in the form of stickers, and a Cheat Sheet; that contains all parts with detailed description; and of course some deceiving parts, to make sure that they choose the right ones.
+<br><br>
+You can use this game to play against your team mates or use it in any of your public outreach events.<br>
+Just drop us an email (igemcu [AT] gmail.com) and we will send you all the materials and details. We bet you’ll love it guys. LET’S PLAY!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> XJTU-China</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Xian,Shaanxi</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>
-Hi iGEM teams! We need your help. We  prepared a survey on the topics sugar and sweeteners
-! We  already have many Chinese  respondents and would be very happy to get a  more international view .Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey .
-<a href="https://zh.surveymonkey.com/r/DDKQJM2">https://zh.surveymonkey.com/r/DDKQJM2</a>
-<br><br>
-Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and we’re looking forward to seeing you in Boston.
-<br><br>
-Thanks
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+        			<div class="title"> 67. Make your fluorescent masterpiece!</div>
-					<h3> 72. iGEM Safety Collaboration - Safety Cases</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Moscow</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lomonosov Moscow State University
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemoscow [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hey there! You are an art person but accidently found yourself in a science place? You like drawing but the experiments don’t let you away? Is a brush in your hand was permanently replaced with a microbiological loop? Well, that’s totally fine, cause our Team invites you to participate in a MicrobDraw competition.
+<br><br>
+Chose a set of bacterial strains expressing fluorescent or chromoproteins and streak them on a 10cm Petri dish to make a picture of anything related to your team, project or sponsor. Once your drawing is grown, take a photo of it and upload it to the Instagram page of your team with #igem2019microbdraw hashtag. Please state in the description what is represented on a dish and which of the color proteins you used for your masterpiece.
+<br><br>
+We will choose the best pictures and give presents to the most talented of you on the Giant Jamboree 2019. Any team is encouraged to make as many drawings as they want - lets see who of us have a potential art person dreaming inside!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> UNebraska-Lincoln</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> unligemteam [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello!
-<br><br>
-Last year, our team introduced "Safety Cases", a proactive technique used to visualize the safety of a synthetic biology project and its end goal. We would like to present our idea to every iGEM team this year by asking them to build their own Safety Case using our new user-friendly website: <a href="https://unl-igem-test.netlify.com/">https://unl-igem-test.netlify.com/</a>. All teams that participate will be awarded our official badge of collaboration.
-<br><br>
-Regards,<br>
-UNL iGEM Team
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+        			<div class="title"> 66. iGEM2019 Spartakiade</div>
-					<h3> 71. Survey about food problem</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Moscow</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lomonosov Moscow State University
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemoscow [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello dear iGEMers!
+<br><br>
+iGEM deadlines are close. You feel exhausted by the unfinished experiments, tons of wiki reports and no fun with your labmates? Well, let us cheer you up with launching "iGEM2019 Spartakiade", where teams from all over the world participate in easy, funny and positive exercise marathon. The idea is simple: you just need to have 4+ members of your team to perform basic 2 min long exercises. We believe that will help iGEMers to be boosted on this finish line of the competition. To unite teams in simple marathon, receive positive vibes and make new friends amongst members of other teams - Spartakiade is your choice! We bring people together!
+Instructions on exercises would be given from official instagram account igem_moscow <br><br>
+In order to participate, you need to:<br>
+) Send information (your Instagram and email) to igemoscowATgmail.com <br>
+) Check our Instagram posts with instructions for that challenge for the next 2-3 days. Record a 2-minute video of you performing exercises in your lab in a creative manner. It would take a couple of minutes to perform exercise and 1 minute to upload the video.<br>
+) Upload short clips of your performances on your team Instagram account with #igem2019spartakiade hashtag<br><br>
+All participants who will post 5 or more videos (1 video per day) with #igem2019spartakiade would automatically get present on the Giant Jamboree 2019!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Botchan Lab Tokyo</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Tokyo, Japan </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Ayano Furuta, igem.tus [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi iGEM teams!
-We need your help. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey below.I want as many people to fill out the form, so if you can ask your friends or family, please ask them to fill out the forms.
-<br><br>
-<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sx5q3K7PJTlJ4TNtTSLEfEPBmIsNgrYblHqRVWt8m_o/viewform?edit_requested=true">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sx5q3K7PJTlJ4TNtTSLEfEPBmIsNgrYblHqRVWt8m_o/viewform?edit_requested=true</a>
-<br><br>
-Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!
-Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and we’re looking forward to seeing you in Boston.
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+        			<div class="title"> 65. Survey about tick-borne diseases</div>
-					<h3> 70. Wiki Tutorial</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Moscow</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lomonosov Moscow State University
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemoscow [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello, iGEMers!
+<br>
+This year we are working on a portable biosensor that can detect the presence of Borrelia spp., that cause Lyme disease in ticks. During our project we faced with lack of awareness of the tick-borne diseases among the public. As part of our research, we have launched the survey to know about attitude to this problem in your country.
+<br><br>
+In order for this to be considered as a collaboration, a minimum of 5 participants from your team have to pass the survey. After that, the collaboration is added to our and your wiki.
+<br><br>
+Here is the link: <br>
+<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5bmo5sWMPy44Z6H-gchB8oQqWiUyaVoXQUcWDceLFyK2yNg/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5bmo5sWMPy44Z6H-gchB8oQqWiUyaVoXQUcWDceLFyK2yNg/viewform</a>
+<br><br>
+The deadline is October 18
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Washington</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Washington, USA</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Jay Yung, uwigem [AT] uw.edu</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello! Our team this year has created a detailed tutorial for creating and modifying the iGEM wiki pages, and we would love to have your team go through and use our guide to help you through the arduous struggle that is making a wiki. If you're interested, please email us to receive the link!
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+        			<div class="title"> 64. iGEM-2019 Blitz Chess Tournament</div>
-					<h3> 69. Cloning and Transformation Help Request</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Moscow</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lomonosov Moscow State University
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemoscow [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>It’s time for CHESS! Good alternative to chill and switch activities if you are tired. We hold an online Blitz Chess tournament for 16 teams. Each team delegates 1 player and they participate in Single Elimination competition. Games are played with 5 min per player time control, until one of the players will lead after an even number of played games. Games should be played on Chess.com either website or application.<br>
+To participate in blitz:<br>
+) Email us your coordinates if you are in at igemoscowATgmail.com<br>
+) Wait for instructions to arrive on your email
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> McMaster iGEM (mGEM)</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> McMaster University, Ontario, Canada</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Thomas Chang, igemmcmaster [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi iGEM Teams!
-<br><br>
-As the Jamboree date approaches (yay!) we are wondering if there are any teams who can help us out with some molecular cloning. We have a backbone plasmid vector (pBAD24) as well as some gene inserts that we require to be ligated in. We are looking for help with ligating our gene inserts into our plasmid, transforming them into a strain of <i>E. coli</i> competent cells and verifying that cloning was successful (ex. colony PCR).
-<br><br>
-Please contact us for more details if you think you will be able to help! We will ship you our plasmid backbone, insert, and <i>E. coli</i> competent cells for transformation. Unfortunately, due to international shipping restrictions of biological materials, we are primarily looking for Canadian and American iGEM teams.
-<br><br>
-Cheers,
-<br>
-mGEM
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Pasteur_Paris </p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Institut Pasteur, Paris, FRANCE</p>
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-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.pasteur [at] gmail.com </p>
+        			<div class="title"> 63. iGEM worldmap </div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Hamburg</p>
-					<p>Hello to all iGEM-ers around the world!
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Hamburg, Germany
-<br><br>
+  </p>
-We need your help. We have put online our survey for a few months now, for the general public, but also scientists and doctors, to learn about synthetic biology as well as our project « NeuronArch ». With the superb feedback from the French population, we have designed it to look great and translated it to English for all of you to follow. We would love for other iGEM teams to share their knowledge about infectious biofilms and share this survey on their social media so that we can have better results and statistics. As you know, we can all benefit from the constituents of the iGEM competition, in our diversity of gender, age of our peers and cultural background.
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Stine Behrmann, igem.hamburg [AT] gmail.com
-<br><br>
+</p>
-<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iXRty3UN4iDJOX7vUvD1IOFWldQkqsAbwW95NoPZhkM/viewform?edit_requested=true">Link to the survey</a>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We found that it is quite hard to understand scientific issues if you're not in the topic. This is pitiful, as there are many great ideas and potentials, especially in iGEM. So we made it our ambition to make iGEM truly open source. We would like to create a world map consisting of easy to understand iGEM abstracts with you. Thus, the public can take part in the fascinating projects that you all created. Do you want to help us with this?
 <br><br>
-Thank you so much! And best of luck for those still in lab, and please come see us in Boston!
+If you are interested just email us: igem.hamburg [AT] gmail.com and we will provide you with guidelines and every help you need!<br>
+We hope to bring together many abstracts to a great world map!
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+        			<div class="title"> 62. In how many languages can you translate a comic ? </div>
-					<h3> 67. Color Q Download</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Evry Paris_Saclay</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Lambert</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Genopole campus 1, Evry (France)
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lambert High School, Atlanta, Georgia</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.lamb [AT] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Suzanne Phengsay, igemevry[at]gmail.com
+</p>
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+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear iGEM Community,
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We, the Evry Paris-Saclay iGEM team, created a short comic to explain synthetic biology and its usefulness in our project .
+We are inviting other iGEM team to translate this comic in the native languages of their team members. This will allow to show that iGEM teams can be composed of students from all over the world.
+And why not make a mini-competition: which team can translate the comic in the largest number of different languages (without Google translate of course :) ?
+If you want to participate, just send us an e-mail at igemevry[at]gmail.com
 <br><br>
-This year, Lambert iGEM focused on detecting cholera in water. To achieve this, we have used toehold switches that produce color in correlation with the amount of cholera in the sample. To determine the relative amounts of cholera present, Lambert iGEM developed an app called Color Q to quantify the intensity of color produced by comparing positive and negative control HSV values to experimental values.
+You can use our comic on your Public Engagement wiki page.
-<br><br>
-We would love for you to download our app and integrate it into your project! Just go to the Google Play Store and search "Lambert iGEM" or "Color Q". Please let us know how you used the app and any feedback or questions you might have. Thank you!
-<br><br>
-See you at Jamboree!<br>
-Lambert iGEM
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-					<h3> 66. Outreach Activity Booklet Translation</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> IISER Kolkata</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Washington</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> IISER Kolkata, West Bengal, India
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Washington, USA</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Jay Yung, uwigem [AT] uw.edu</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Ipshita, Email: team.igem [AT] iiserkol.ac.in
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello! Our team this year has created an outreach activity booklet with activities meant for schoolchildren! Our hope is to be able to share this booklet with the iGEM community so that outreach becomes  more accessible to every team. To do so, we need your help with translating this booklet from English to other languages! If you would like to collaborate with us by helping us translate the booklet, please contact us at our team email!
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>This year our team is working to fight against the deadly disease - Kala Azar or Leishmaniasis which comes under the category of Neglected tropical diseases and as the name suggests, it is in fact neglected with respect to the awareness about the disease and the measurements taken to curb it. We request you to participate in our small awareness and information survey by filling up a google form. This will help us to understand the extent of awareness about this disease around the world.
+If you are interested to make this collaboration  more meaningful, then we would request you to circulate the form among the students in your respective institutes. It will help in creating awareness among a bigger mass. <br><Br>
+Here is the link to the form: <A href="https://forms.gle/epJEf2dAsEQoAJhAA">https://forms.gle/epJEf2dAsEQoAJhAA</a><br><br>
+In case if you are circulating the form then let us know by dropping a mail on our email ID. Your contribution is highly appreciated. Feel free to mail us for any further queries.
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Rotterdam HR </p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Rotterdam, The Netherlands</p>
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-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igemteam.hr [AT] gmail.com </p>
+        			<div class="title"> 60. Testing and/or Translating Outreach Booklet Activities</div>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Washington</p>
-					<p>Hey teams!
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Washington, United States
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Hannah Cheung, hfcheung [AT] uw.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello, we are Washington iGEM. We have created an outreach booklet meant to introduce schoolchildren to the field of synthetic biology through fun, interactive activities. However, we need your help to make our booklet the best it can possibly be!
 <br><br>
-We made a tool on our website that allows you to see all wiki pages from iGEM teams with their corresponding view count. The tool allows you to scroll through the most viewed pages, this can be used to gather inspiration on specific subpages if you have yet to create it. It can also be used for checking out the most popular iGEM wikis!
+First of all, you can use and give feedback on our 2019 outreach booklet activities at your own events! If your team has an upcoming outreach event for students, please send me an email letting me know (1) the age range of the students attending your event and (2) more details about the event (is it a school visit, tabling event, etc). We will recommend activities from our 2019 booklet for you to use! After using these activities, you will give us feedback on what went well, what could be improved, and how to improve the activities.
 <br><br>
-We are currently logging all view data per day on a server, which we will present in a future update of the tool. Here you will be able to see how many views each team has in total, and their daily viewcount. This means that cheating on views will be visible for all teams. If you are eager to see the viewdata and can't wait for the update, we have it in raw JSON form. <br>
+Furthermore, we are looking for people to help translate our outreach booklet and supplementary materials into other languages. If any of your team members is fluent in another language than English, please send me an email letting me know your interest and what language(s) your member(s) can translate in. This includes written translation and voice-recording.
-For the JSONs you can click here:<br>
-<a href="https://tevd.nl:81/">https://tevd.nl:81/ </a>
 <br><br>
-Here's the link to the wikistats on our website: <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Team:Rotterdam_HR/Wikistat">https://2019.igem.org/Team:Rotterdam_HR/Wikistat</a>
+The deadline is October 21. I look forward to hearing from you!
-<br><br>
-Go and take a look!
-<br><br>
-See you in Boston,<br>
-Team Rotterdam
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+        			<div class="title"> 59. Testing an educational board game</div>
-					<h3> 64. Unmask the shores-Beach clean-up </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> KCL UK, King’s College London</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b>VIT Vellore </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>Guy’s Campus London, UK
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Vellore Institute of Technology, India</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b>  Sahana Lakshmi Venkatesh, igem2019.vitindia.collab [AT] gmail.com </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> daniilka104 [AT] gmail.com
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Greetings to our fellow iGEMers around the world,
-<br>
-This year our project aims at reducing ocean acidification. Apart from trying to achieve this through genetic engineering, we have also been trying to contribute to reducing the ill-effects of industrialization, ocean acidification and the overall increase of pollution in the recent times. On 17th June, we organized a beach clean up at the world's second longest beach, the beautiful Marina in Chennai and collected around 20 bags of waste .Even if this was a small solution to this problem, we realized how this small act could possibly make a difference in the long run.
-As part of collaborations, we would like to encourage teams from around the world to visit beaches near them and conduct similar clean-ups .We would love to get photos from your team's beach clean-up to the contact provided.The photos shall also be displayed at the Jamboree.
-Looking forward to hearing from all of you!
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEM teams,<br>
+As part of our public engagement and education, we decided to create an educational board game which teaches children basic information about viruses and the immune system. We play tested it and after some editing, found it challenging and exciting.
+<br><br>
+Now we want to see what other teams think about it. If you are planning on doing any workshops or activities with schools, you can use our game if you want to teach students about viruses. If you are not, feel free to play it yourselves, or even challenge other teams! Either way, we would like to know what you did with the game, whether you liked it, and if there should be any changes made, so we can feature each team’s story and view of the game on our wiki. The game is available on an online platform. If you are interested, please contact us, so we can send you the link to host a game. We hope you enjoy the game, and thank you for taking time to participate.
+<br><br>
+Team KCL
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+        			<div class="title"> 58. Could you please take a picture of Mikania micrantha for us?</div>
-					<h3> 63. Analysing the variability of cell-free expression systems with an interlab experiment</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> SZU-China</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Paris Bettencourt</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Shenzhen University, China
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Paris, France</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Darshak Bhatt; Email: paris-bettencourt-2019 [AT] cri-paris.org  </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Annie Liao, annie66l [AT] 163.com
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We are the students of the Paris_Bettencourt iGEM team. We wish to do a mini-interlab experiment and collaborate with other iGEM teams. Our aim is to study the variability of cell-free expression system via an interlab experiment. <br><br>
-Please click here to <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/f/fd/Paris_Bettencourt-collaboration.pdf">download the collaboration proposal</a>.
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEMers!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Nanjing-China </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Nanjing, China</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> nanjing_china [AT] 163.com, Twitter: @nanjing__china</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hey there!
 <br><br>
-Working in a lab, we could always encounter hilarious things. Such things happen either because of our own amusing mistakes or just because they exist as some kind of memes. To record the happy moments in our lab, we decide to make a collection of Lab emoji. Please send us the emoji made to record the hilarious moments you treasure in your lab time!
+We are SZU-China team and this year we are going to develop an herbicide for Mikania micrantha Kunth, which is a perennial vine native to tropical central and South America and has been called "Mile-a-minute Vine". As one of the worst invasive weeds in the world, Mikania micrantha spread to southern China after 1910, where lacks of any natural enemies, so since the 1980s it has started to spread and invade widely. The weed has caused significant damage to many ecosystems in Guangdong province in recent years.
 <br><br>
-If you’d like some examples or more information please contact us!
+We decide to use the agricultural drone that can identify Mikania micrantha in nature and spray our herbicide on them. We need to collect thousands of photos of Mikania micrantha to train our recognition model. Therefore, we are in need collaborators from all over the world to find whether there is Mikania micrantha around, shoot the photos and send them to us.
 <br><br>
-Hope everything goes well for you!
+We would appreciate it if you could help us. What's more, we will select the best from the pictures you sent us and display them in the exhibition space with the names of your team. Then, you can come to our exhibition space to get delicate gifts we prepared for you!
 <br><br>
-Love,
+Please feel free to contact us by email: annie66l [AT] 163.com! We would love to hear from you!
-<br>
-iGEM Team Nanjing-China
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-					<h3> 61. The optimization of prokaryotic expression conditions and expression and purification of CSCA protein</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> AHUT-China </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ma’anshan, China</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b>Yu Zhou, 2017965027 [AT] qq.com </p>
+    			<div class="details">
+        			<div class="title"> 57. Start-Up Guide for Highschool iGEM Teams</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p><b>Team:</b> East Chapel Hill HS</p>
-					<p>Dear iGEMer! Hello.
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> North Carolina
-<br><br>
+ </p>
-We're looking for a team to help us complete a small experiment: the optimization of prokaryotic expression conditions and expression and purification of CSCA protein.
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Camille Lorie, calorie [AT] students.chccs.k12.nc.us
-<br><br>
-<b>Experimental materials provided:</b>
-<br>Escherichia coli strains (glycerol) transferred to expression plasmid
-<br><br>
-<b>Material Details:</b>
-<br>1) Expression strains: Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3)
-<br>2) Expression plasmid: pet-30a (+), kanamycin resistance
-<br>3) Expression protein molecular weight: approx. 60Kd
-<br>4) Expression protein carrying tag: 6 x his tag
-<br><br>
-<b>Target:</b>
-<br>1) Determine the soluble prokaryotic expression conditions of CSCA protein (can be considered IPTG final concentration of 0.5mM, 37 degrees of inducible expression 4h, 6h, or 15 degrees to induce the expression of 16h, or other temperature or time, etc.);
-<br>2) Purified CSCA protein of not less than 1mg, purity of more than 85% (protein with histidine label can be purified with nickel column).
-<br><br>If you have any questions about the cooperation, please contact us by email. We eagerly look forward to your reply!
 </p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello all! We are the East Chapel Hill HS iGEM team, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. At present, there are no other high school iGEM teams participating in our area, likely due to a lack of knowledge on how to get started with their own iGEM team! To encourage more youth to participate in iGEM and the realm of synthetic biology, we will be creating a Start-Up Guide for new high school iGEM teams. We're looking for other highschool teams to collaborate with so we can include as many perspectives, tips, and insights as possible. Please contact calorie [AT] students.chccs.k12.nc.us if you are interested. We hope to hear from you all very soon!
+</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 56. Haiku: a poetic collaboration</div>
-					<h3> 60.  Share your healthy recipe!  </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> GO Paris Saclay</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> HAFS  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  Université Paris Saclay, France
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies, South Korea </p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Kyuhee Jo kyuhee0622 [AT] gmail.com </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Clara, igem.parissaclay [AT] gmail.com
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Greetings, iGEM-ers!
-<br><br>
-Do you enjoy cooking? Have you ever noticed the similarity between cooking and experimenting—tea spoons to pipettes, seasoning to buffers, and recipes to protocols? For those who enjoy both cooking and experimenting, you should keep your eyes open to this collaboration project.
-<br><br>
-  This year, our team is working to create a probiotics based solution to diabetes. In doing so, we are teaching the male elderlies who can cook how to cook diabetes-friendly, healthy recipes. We are going to create a handbook that contains healthy recipes to give out to these elderlies.
-<br><br>
-Granted, we wanted to collect recipes from iGEM teams all around the world, ranging from Asian cuisines to American dishes to any tasty food that you want to share! Our team will create and upload cooking videos for some of the best recipes.
-<br><br>
-If you want to participate, please send a one paragraph recipe with ingredients and instructions as well as the photo of the final products. The menu can vary from anything such as soup to probiotics yogurt recipe!
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello 2019 iGEMers around the world!</p>
+					<p>We are the team GO PARIS SACLAY iGEM 2019 and our project, “DNA FREE POETential” mixes synthetic biology with poetry.</p>
+					<p>You can help us and participate to our project by simply writing haikus!  </p>
+					<p>Haikus are Japanese poems composed of only 3 sentences of 5 / 7 / 5 syllables, respectively. They classically reflect the fleeting beauty of Life, expressing ephemeral but strong feelings.</p>
+					<p>We invite you to participate to our project by writing haikus (in all languages) about the fate of a DNA-less cell, or any idea related to synthetic biology.
+Your collaborative haikus will be selected by our team for the wiki and/or our final oral presentation (with the indication of the team/author(s) who composed it).</p>
+					<p>Here’s the link for more information and also for writing your awesome haikus: <a href=
+"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjVM2dxJhs_eQyp8XuxJ1qeozn9UJxiVFt8JbbaFT3kFwjJA/viewform?usp=sf_link">
+https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjVM2dxJhs_eQyp8XuxJ1qeozn9UJxiVFt8JbbaFT3kFwjJA/viewform?usp=sf_link</a>
+					<p>We hope you will join the other teams in this artistic collaboration!</p>
+					<p>Thank you for participating and helping us. </p>
+					<p>We look forward to seeing you in Boston </p>
+					<p>The GO Paris Saclay team
+</p>
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-					<h3> 59.  The Big Online Debate  </h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> UCL </p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> London, UK</p>
+    			<div class="details">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> ucl.igem [AT] ucl.ac.uk</p>
+        			<div class="title"> 55. What is iGEM for you?</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p><b>Team:</b> UAAAN</p>
-					<p>The Big Online Debate - Join us on Kialo, an online debate platform, to discuss whether Genetic Engineering should be easily accessible to the public. Are they capable of creating bioweapons? If so, are they also capable of finding cures for disease? Give your opinion on this debate platform here. Significantly engage with us and you will be considered a collaborating team!
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro
+Saltillo, Coahuila, México.
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemuaaan [AT] gmail.com, Facebook: IGEM UAAAN, 8441951258.
+</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi iGEM teams:<br>
+As we all know, iGEM is not only about our projects, but also about involving the public with synthetic biology. To do this, we want to know what your experience in the competition.
+We invite you to send us a short video describing in a word that means iGEM for your team. This should be in your native language.
 <br><br>
-Link to the debate: <a href="https://goo.gl/waqYCw">https://goo.gl/waqYCw</a>
+Thank you for participating and helping us!<br>
-<br><br>
+iGEM Team UAAAN 2019
-We have invited a series of GM Watch groups to the debate alongside activists in support of GMO's. Whether you get involved or not, this debate is something all iGEM-ers will find interesting as BioBricks aim to facilitate genetic engineering.
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+        			<div class="title"> 54. Beta-test our codon harmonisation program!</div>
-					<h3> 58.  Characterization of BioBrick composite parts </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Sydney Australia</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Valencia_UPV </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  USYD, Australia
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Valencia, Universitat Politècnica de València </p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.upv.2019 [at] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br>  igemsydney2019 [AT] gmail.com or iGEM Sydney on facebook and instagram.
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hey iGEM-ers!
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEM teams!
 <br><br>
-This year our team is working so hard on the characterization of several transcriptional units assembled with the Golden Braid Grammar. However, we would like to compare these assemblies with the same ones resulted from using the BioBrick method. As almost all DNA parts we are using are already present in the Registry of Standard Biological Parts (common pieces such as the BBa_B0015 terminator, promoters from the Anderson collection, RBS from the common collection and reporters like the sfGFP or the mRFP), we think some of you might have assembled them with BioBrick during your projects. <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2019/5/5d/DNA_pieces_list_UPV.pdf">Here’s a table with the pieces we are currently using</a>. We are interested in any combination of these parts.
+One of the things that many iGEM teams do in their projects is take a gene from one organism and move it into another chassis. But, as many of you know, this doesn’t always work out so well! One of the reasons for this is that different organisms have different codon usage preferences, and if your gene still uses its source organism’s preferred codons it may not work as well in your chassis organism.
 <br><br>
-Thus, if you have any transcriptional unit combining some of our promoters, CDS, RBS and terminator, you can easily help us sending it to us so we can characterize and compare that composite part with ours.
+One way to deal with this is codon optimisation (e.g. as provided by IDT) - this substitutes the most common codon at each position, and often works well. Sometimes this still fails, and a more subtle approach (codon harmonisation) may be better - in this case, each codon is substituted by one with similar *relative* rarity, thus acknowledging that there are sometimes reasons for organisms using rare codons in a gene sequence.
 <br><br>
-Good luck, we are looking forward to seeing you all in Boston!
+Here’s where we come in: we have designed a program which allows you to automatically codon-harmonise your gene by comparing the codon usage data for the source and destination organism. You can then easily order one or more of these sequences to test expression in your desired chassis organism.
 <br><br>
-Valencia_UPV
+We’re looking for some iGEM teams that would like to test our codon harmonisation methods. Email us your sequence and details of the source and destination organisms and we will send you back the codon-harmonised variants. Then let us know if this process helped with your gene expression.
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+        			<div class="title"> 53. Texas Red as a standard for measuring mCherry</div>
-					<h3> 57.  iGEM 2019 Science/Art Photo Contest </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Bielefeld-CeBiTec</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  Bielefeld, Germany
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> info [AT] igem-bielefeld.de
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hey 2019 iGEMers, <br>
+most of us are, at least to some extend, working with fluorescent proteins. However, as you might have learnt from previous teams, or even first-hand, it's hard to compare fluorescence data generated under varying conditions.<br>
+Therefore, standardization has to be done. For GFP this was established during the Interlab study over the last few years: by measuring GFP against a dilution series of Fluorescein, a unit for GFP fluorescence could be created and data generated at several labs could be compared.
+However, depending on the application other fluorescent proteins than GFP might be more suitable. Therefore, we are planning to establish Texas Red as a standard for mCherry meausrements - and we need you to join us and conduct some measurements at your plate readers! <br><br>
+Find the protocols here: <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/mCherry">https://2019.igem.org/Team:Bielefeld-CeBiTec/mCherry</a> and get in touch at info [AT] igem-bielefeld.de or via Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). <br>
+We're looking forward to collaborating with you!<br>
+Team Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2019
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> EPFL </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b>EPFL, Switzerland </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Violette Zanotti, violette.zanotti [at] epfl.ch</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Bring Science Out of Your Lab! <br><br>
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-This year, the EPFL iGEM team would like to give the opportunity to iGEMers from all over the world to compete on a new level… Art!
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-We know that you are all stuck in your labs until the competition, therefore we will make it easier for you: the contest is about artistic images from your experiments!
-<br>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-Indeed we are convinced that art is a domain in which people from all backgrounds can appreciate. This is therefore a way for us to open the dialog about our project and more broadly, about synthetic biology with the public.
+    			<div class="details">
-<br>
+        			<div class="title"> 52. Let's fight food allergens together !!!</div>
-The rules are simple: each team is allowed to submit maximum 3 images of their choice before the 21th of September 2019 23:59 CEST (Central European Summer Time) in this google form:
+				</div>
-<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0CYXTy5rG6DbH5u2XoasOCgqH31_PnGyyhI3FBX1sIz_MVg/viewform?usp=pp_url"> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0CYXTy5rG6DbH5u2XoasOCgqH31_PnGyyhI3FBX1sIz_MVg/viewform?usp=pp_url</a>
-<br>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
-The best images will be carefully
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Strasbourg</p>
- selected by our team and displayed during an exposition in Lausanne. We will base our choice on the following criterion: how well does the image combine art and science?
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  Strasbourg, France
-<br>
+ </p>
-As we do not want to discriminate teams which may not have access to high quality equipment to take photos, we do not put a minimum resolution. But please keep in mind that we will only be able to print images of a high enough resolution, so please take your photos with the best resolution you can !
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemstrasbourg2019 [AT] gmail.com
-<br>
-We will of course offer a prize to the 3 teams that impressed us the most. We will keep secret what it is until the Giant Jamboree… See you all in Boston!!
-<br>
-(You need a google account in order to submit a file. If you do not have one, please let us know per email at violette.zanotti [at] epfl.ch)
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEM teams !<br>
+We are iGEM Strasbourg 2019 (France) and we would much appreciate if you could provide us some of your time to answer to our questionnaire.<br>
+We are trying to create a test allowing the detection of food allergens and we want to do a survey on the impact and incidence of allergies in different countries where there are iGEM teams.<br>
+Here is the link: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSw7QNbduEHF5fxElkU4Cmu6xkQzS_AkOrGZoH45TsnjJEzA/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSw7QNbduEHF5fxElkU4Cmu6xkQzS_AkOrGZoH45TsnjJEzA/viewform</a><br>
+Thank you for your time and consideration!<br>
+Best regards,<br>
+Your iGEM Strasbourg Team
+</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 51. A map filling game to investigate pollution </div>
-					<h3> 56. Synthetic Biology Survey </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> HBUT-China</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Thessaloniki</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  Hubei University of Technology, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, China
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Yvoni Giannoula, igemthess [AT] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> hbutigem [AT] 163.com
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear fellow iGEMers,<br><br>
-We have created a survey about synthetic biology, laboratory work, safety and ethics that is addressed to experienced scientists working on the synthetic biology field. We would appreciate it if you could forward this survey to your instructors and advisors. You can find the survey's link here: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/xigcfX3wmFpywlMo2">https://goo.gl/forms/xigcfX3wmFpywlMo2</a>
-<br><br>
-Thank you in advance for your help.<br>
-On behalf of iGEM Thessaloniki,<br>
-Yvonne
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEM Teams! We are the HBUT iGEM team from China, and we invite you to join the map filling game to investigate pollution For the project’s human practices, we have learned about nickel pollution in China. Now we want to collect information about nickel-ion contamination condition and related standard around the world. And we have listed the following three questions and hope to get your answers.
+</p>
+<ol>
+<li>What is the national standard (sepcific nickel ion concentration) that your country allows factories to emit nickel-containing wastewater? </li>
+<li>In addition to national standards, does your city have local standards for nickel metal emissions or other metal emissions? What is it? Is it more stringent than the national standard?</li>
+<li>Is there any nickel or other heavy metal contamination in your region? If so, can you talk about it? Did it cause serious environmental degradation or any human body diseases?</li>
+</ol>
+<p>
+ We need your help to fill the map of our survey and the information up to September 20th, to be able to register the collaboration on our Wiki. If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you! Wish your team is going well.
+</p>
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-					<h3> 55. Come Join iGEM Guidebook Questionnaire</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Warwick</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Warwick, United Kingdom</p>
+    			<div class="details">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> iGEM [AT] warwick.ac.uk</p>
+        			<div class="title"> 50.  iGEM Weather Contingency Plan</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p><b>Team:</b> UPRM</p>
-					<p>Dear fellow iGEMers, we are designing a guidebook detailing the journeys of all iGEM participants who major in degrees other than the conventional iGEM-related degrees such as biology and chemistry. The book aims to introduce the essential resources needed to effectively participate in iGEM. We hope that with this guidebook, we can promote and draw students from other disciplines such as Law, Economics etc. to be actively involved in iGEM. In order to produce this guidebook, we would like for you to fill in this questionnaire in order to share your experiences and hopefully, pave the way for iGEM to be more inclusive of other degrees!
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b>  University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR.
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemrum [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEMers!
 <br><br>
-Here is the link to our survey: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/9VG621LZEF4aH9qC3">https://goo.gl/forms/9VG621LZEF4aH9qC3</a>
+The world is facing a serious threat of severe weather events, if these phenomena are inevitable, we
+should be prepared to safeguard our amazing iGEM projects by assessing, developing and implementing
+a Weather Contingency Plan (WCP).
 <br><br>
-If you are interested in helping us out, please do fill in our survey in order to help future iGEMers. Please do not hesitate in contacting us for more information or collaboration opportunities.
+Frequently, we learn about a storm/blizzard/tornado that affects places where fellow iGEM teams are
+working on their projects. In some cases, the phenomenon can even force the affected team to
+reconsider their participation in the iGEM Giant Jamboree Competition. With your help, we can create
+an iGEM WCP that helps current and future iGEM teams be prepared to stay on track for the
+competition even in the harshest weather conditions. The iGEM WCP is a collaboration effort that will
+have historic significance and provoke a real positive impact in the way iGEM teams are working their
+respective projects.
 <br><br>
-We look forward to your responses, see you soon at the Jamboree!
+Our team envisions developing a booklet that can be distributed electronically to new iGEM teams at
+the start of the next competition cycles. We propose that this iGEM WCP booklet should be worked in
+unison by at least 3 active 2019 iGEM teams from each corresponding iGEM region, therefore we are in
+need collaborators from all over the world ASAP. Maybe it could be your team!
 <br><br>
-Lots of love,<br>
+These are contents we propose to be developed by each respective iGEM region for the iGEM WPC:</p>
-Team Warwick
+<ul>
+<li>Communication strategies between team members and with iGEM HQ before, during and after
+a weather phenomenon.</li>
+<li>Establishing collaboration partnerships grid across the iGEM regions.</li>
+<li>Electricity independent laboratory protocols.</li>
+<li>Project planning with low resources.</li>
+<li>Time efficiency and strategic planning.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+As you can see, our team is very ambitious with this collaboration request, we expect you to be the
+same. We are counting on your help, especially since we are the first team of Puerto Rico and the
+Caribbean to compete at iGEM!<br><br>
+Best regards,<br>
+UPRM iGEM<br>
+igemrum [AT] gmail.com
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+        			<div class="title"> 49. Kings College London Bio-security standards survey</div>
-					<h3> 54. Funniest Failure Experience</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Kings College London</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Fudan-CHINA</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Guy's Campus London, UK
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Fudan University, Shanghai, China</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Kaifeng Jin, 16301050182 [AT] fudan.edu.cn</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> iGEM [AT] kcl.ac.uk - Josephine Eum
+</p>
-				</div>
+        		</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hey iGEM teams! We from team Fudan-CHINA are collecting interesting or impressive reasons for failed experiments. A brochure will be designed, printed and handed out at Giant Jamboree to share these interesting experiences. Please email us if you want to take part. Thank you a lot! (If you don’t know what it means, here is an example: we had one of our DNA gel electrophoresis run with 180V for 30min so our valuable product of two days work all went into the TAE. When our team leader saw it, he shouted out, ‘what??????’ )
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi fellow iGEM teams<br><br>
+As part of our collaboration effort, our team has launched a survey to address bio-security protocols in labs globally to address the current standards. Our survey will estimate its use in institutions labs to determine if location has an effect on the enforcement of biosecurity standards and how this can vary between institutions from the same country and different countries.  <br><br>
+This survey is only 4 questions long so we would appreciate it if as many team members from each team could complete the form.
+To thank teams for their contribution, everyone who fills out the form will be featured on our collaborations and/or integrated human practices tab on our wiki!
 <br><br>
-Our email address: 16301050182 [AT] fudan.edu.cn
+Link to the form: <a href="https://forms.gle/W7iA8pXPq17Q8p3V6">https://forms.gle/W7iA8pXPq17Q8p3V6</a>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 48. Maybe you need a comic book！</div>
-					<h3> 53. Comic Book Popularization Request</h3>
 				</div>
-				<div class="column quarter_size">
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
 					<p><b>Team:</b> OUC-China</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ocean University of China, Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> OUC-iGEMers; E-mail:oucigem [AT] 163.com</p>
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Zhenning Bao——oucigem AT 163 DOT com
-				</div>
+</p>
+        		</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p>Hey, we are OUC-China! <br><br>
-Firstly, We have finished a comic book which is about synthetic biology. Thanks for some iGEM team's support and participation in translation. The comic book has been translated into many language. Now we have Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, Catalan version. If you can translate it into other languages, also welcome to email(oucigem [AT] 163.com) us. The translation deadline is September,20.
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!<br><br>
-<br><br>
-Secondly, given that the purpose of our comic book is to propagandize Synthetic Biology, we wonder if it is possible for your team to give publicity to people in your city using this comic book. We gave out some of these brochures at our local schools and explained the details in the lecture. These children like it very much and ask us some interesting questions about synthetic biology, which make us realize the importance of science popularizatin in an effective and interesting way. If you gain enough time to do this work, you can send us your plan about Synthetic Biology popularization and we will send you the comic book. You just need to print it yourself. Then send us some activity photos. We are also very glad to accept some advice on this comic book.
-<br><br>
-If you want to collaborate with us, welcome to e-mail(oucigem [AT] 163.com) us.
-<br><br>
-OUC-iGEM
+Last year, under the help of Aix-Marseille, Tartu_TUIT, Duesseldorf, UPF_CRG_Barcelona, Thessaloniki, McMaster, Stockholm, Vilnius-Lithuania, Bilkent-UNAMBG iGEM teams all over the world, our comic book has been translated into 13 languages. （French，Greek，Portuguese，Lithuanian，Turkish，Estonian，Russian，German，Italian，Spanish，Catalan，English，Chinese）More than 15 teams take our comic book E.coli SPACESHIP to local areas for science education. This year, we added the content of the comic book. We welcome all teams to use our comic book to educate on synthetic biology. We will provide you with our comic book for free. In addition, for the new content added this year, we also welcome you to translate it into the language of your own country for educational activities.
 </p>
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-					<h3> 52. Offering help for silver medal criteria
-"collaboration"</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Duesseldorf</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Heinrich Heine University,
+    			<div class="details">
-Germany</p>
+        			<div class="title"> 47. Cell Lysis Methods Survey</div>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem [AT] hhu.de</p>
 				</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Tartu TUIT</p>
-					<p>Hey everyone!
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Tartu, Estonia
-<br><br>
+ </p>
-We're still looking for iGEM Teams that we can assist in their work.
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Nadezhda Chulkova, tartutuit [AT] gmail [DOT] com
-<br><br>
-We offer: various biochemical analytic methods, plate reader
-measurements, fluorescent microscopy, (virtual) cloning and more.
-<br><br>
-Please contact us if you think there could be something we could do for
-you and if you are interested in achieving your silver medal criteria.
-<br><br>
-Lots of love<br>
-iGEM Team Düsseldorf
 </p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello world! This year Tartu_TUIT team develops the autolytic yeast strain, that will ease extraction of the valuable compounds from the cells. This strain has a great potential to decrease the costs connected to cell lysis. <br><br>
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+Do you produce some chemical compounds using yeast? If yes, we would like to know, what cell wall lysis methods do you use and what problems do you face. It will be definetely helpful for us: to estimate the efficiency of our mechanism we need to collect the actual information about other lysis methods, that are being used nowadays. <br><br>
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-					<h3> 51. Follow Me To iGEM</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Bulgaria</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Sofia, Bulgaria</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.bulgaria2017 [at] gmail.com , Facebook: @iGEMbg , Instagram: @igem.bulgaria</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear iGEMers,
-<br><br>
-Our team has a tradition to take photos of the type “Follow me to” at every place we visit – together or only part of us. That’s why we decided to spread our idea for a collaboration.
-<br><br>
-Take a “FollowMeTo” photo of you and your teammate(s) at a special place in your town. It can be your lab, a famous place of the town or even your team’s drinking spot. The only condition is that there should be something linked to iGEM – you can be with your labcoats, holding a pipette, or whatever you want. Then post the photos on Instagram with hashtag #FollowMeToiGEM . If you don’t have Instagram account you can send us 1-3 photos with a short description of the place and the name of your team on our email.
-<br><br>
-We are looking forward for your photos!<br>
-Much love,<br>
-Team Bulgaria
+This is the link to our survey: <a href=
+"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwoDgXEb1qnyhOfUd9UZXQHObDXOgMwO5q8ZGfMqb29pKcgQ/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwoDgXEb1qnyhOfUd9UZXQHObDXOgMwO5q8ZGfMqb29pKcgQ/viewform?usp=sf_link </a>
 </p>
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-					<h3> 50. Variability crushes the system - Interlaboratory Collaboration</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Thessaloniki</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</p>
+    			<div class="details">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Yvoni Giannoula, igemthess [AT] gmail.com</p>
+        			<div class="title"> 46. Library: Receptors and aptamers of rare cell lines</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+	 				<p><b>Team:</b> DUT China A</p>
-					<p>Our team is working on designing a system to increase robustness of measurements by decoupling gene expression from copy number. We are searching for teams willing to conduct measurements with our constructs in order to compare results from around the world and find out if our system diminishes interlaboratory variations caused by differences in plasmid copy number. For more information and specifications please contact us.
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning, China
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> DUT_China_A_2019 [AT] 163.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We would like to establish a library of rare cell lines’ receptors and aptamers. This library will serve as an open source for related researchers and also iGEMers. If your team’s work is (or was) related to the receptors and aptamers of non-widely-used cells, please help us to set up the library. You can send us an e-mail with the information below: the name of the cell lines, receptors and its characteristics, aptamers and its characteristics. If possible, you can also send us the structure and the bonding mechanism of the receptors and aptamers, which will definitely help a lot. We would really appreciate it if you send us an e-mail to help establishing the library. Contact us at DUT_China_A_2019 [AT] 163.com.
 </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 45. PhaGEM</div>
-					<h3> 49. Help us Build Our Promoter Tool</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> NAWI Graz</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Manchester</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Institute for Biochemistry, TU Graz, Austria
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Manchester, United Kingdom</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Ed Deshmukh-Reeves / manchesterigemteam2019 [AT] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Felix Schweigkofler, felix.s [AT] igem-graz.at
+</p>
-				</div>
+        		</div>
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+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>This year we are designing a biosensor for Listeria monocytogenes in soft cheese starter cultures. As part of our project we want to build a toolkit of promoter sequences suitable for both <i>E. coli</i> and <i>L. lactis</i> and we are currently designing a predictive model to simulate promoter strength based on conserved features. We would love to expand our tool to be used with other synthetic biology chassis and turn this system into something that can be useful for other iGEM teams. Working on this tool with us is a great way to tick your silver medal collaboration criteria. We would love to work with any teams who have any new promoter sequences that they are planning on submitting to the registry, so that we can build this tool together. If this sounds like something your team would be interested in, please send us the following information:
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We are working with phages and so are a lot of you out there.
 <br><br>
+But phages can be difficult to handle and we might profit from the experiences of other teams and would be glad to share some of our knowledge with you. If you have any questions or ideas regarding our project or a possible collaboration, don’t hesitate to contact us.
-We will definitely require:<br>
-- The sequence of the promoter(s) you wish to add to the iGEM toolkit<br>
-- Which bacterial species (one, two or many) you would like to optimise this promoter sequence for
 <br><br>
+E.g.: For our project we need to purify and concentrate the phages by gradient centrifugation with CsCl, but face some problems. If any of you have experience with that or would like to collaborate by trying to reproduce our data, we would love to hear from you soon.
-It would be useful (but not compulsory) to send us:<br>
-- A bacterial species for which this promoter has been characterised already, either in a publication (please include a reference) or by you as part of your project<br>
-- The associated activity for this promoter or your intentions for the promoters strength (e.g., low, medium or high relative expression levels)
 <br><br>
+Furthermore we are trying to develop a biosensor and could also collaborate with other sensor teams by testing each other’s measurements.
-What you will get from us:<br>
-- Predicted relative promoter strength data, and possibly helpful suggestions how to further optimise the promoter sequences (if our tool works)<br>
-- A clear-cut opportunity to meet the requirements for a silver medal collaboration
-<br><br>
-We look forward to working with you.
 </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 44. Rice University Meta Analysis</div>
-					<h3> 48. The iGEM Plastic Lab</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Rice </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Rice University, United States
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Tasneem Mustafa, tm39 [AT] rice.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi! We are the Rice University iGEM team. As we have been collaborating with other teams this year, it has been interesting asking teams how they came up with their project ideas. The similarities in team’s responses interested us and led us to wonder if there are common factors that play into teams choosing their projects. So we are hoping to carry out a meta analysis to further investigate the effect of location on a team’s project selection.
+If you are interested in helping us carry out our meta analysis, we are hoping to talk to teams individually as case studies, feel free to contact our human practices subteam lead Tasneem at tm39@rice.edu. We appreciate all your feedback!
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Westminster UK</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> London, United Kingdom</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.westminster.2019 [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Greetings, fellow iGEMers! This year, we want to take the iGEM goes green campaign a step further and work on methods of reducing laboratory plastic waste.
-<br><br>
-We have made an introduction video for the campaign that some teams helped us collaborate on together:
-<a href="https://youtu.be/v8JLuo7mDFE">https://youtu.be/v8JLuo7mDFE</a>
-<br><br>
-If you want to help us out and provide us with some of your own ideas on how to implement the 3 R's in iGEM labs, please do contact us!
-<br><br>
-Good luck with your projects, we are looking forward to seeing you in Boston!</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 43. Instagram Well Walk Challenge</div>
-					<h3> 47. Building an interactive website for Protein Sequence Space Exploration!</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Lambert_GA </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lambert High School in Atlanta, Georgia
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igem.lamb [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>How fast can you run or climb stairs carrying 10 pounds of water? Find out through the #WellWalkChallenge! Millions of people lack clean water around the world. We @lambertigem are partnering with the Thirst Project to raise $12,000 for a well in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Women and children walk hours everyday carrying gallons of water, a daily struggle most of us will never face. This well would give 500 people in a community clean water for a lifetime. We challenge you to participate in the #WellWalkChallenge and donate to our cause at <b>https://my.thirstproject.org/team/216038</b> to be featured in our Collaborations page! Nominate your friends and other teams! The person with the highest time and largest donation will receive a free Thirst Project t-shirt!
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Vilnius-Lithuania-OG</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Vilnius University (Lithuania)</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Laurynas Karpus, laurynas.karpus [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p><b>The protein sequence space</b> is immensely large and diverse. We, Vilnius-Lithuania Overgraduate Team, feel that it is important to allow people from all over the world to see just how big and remarkable it truly is. Thus, our goal is to build an interactive <b>website that will allow to explore the physical manifestation of protein sequence space</b>, just like in the planet and star exploration websites we love so much!
-<br><br>
-We are looking for <b>Teams</b> to collaborate in this project. The activities we currently need to fill are:<br>
-) Website solutions and coding (~ 2 teams)<br>
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-) Art and design (~2 teams)<br>
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-) Solutions to translate protein sequence space into 3 dimensions in a most elegant way. (~1 team)<br>
-<br><br>
-We really hope you will find this little project as exciting as we do!<br>
-Kind regards,<br>
-Vilnius-Lithuania Overgraduate Team</p>
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+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 42. The Language Project 2.0</div>
-					<h3> 46. Push Your Push Via Our Platform </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> IIT Madras </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Indian Institute of Technology, Madras from India
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igem [AT] smail.iitm.ac.in
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Warm greetings to you all,
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+<br><br>
+We are Team iGEM IIT Madras from India and we are looking for prospective collaborators who can lend us a helping hand in our quest to spread the voice of science to the masses in a language in which they are most comfortable and in a form that entertains while educating young enthusiastic minds. We primarily focus on explaining the basic tenets of synthetic and molecular biology in vernacular languages and given that teams from various countries participate in iGEM, we would be immensely grateful towards any help we might get on our way to the fulfilment of this goal.
-					<p><b>Team:</b> ECUST </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> ecustigem [AT] yeah [DOT] net</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hey iGEMers!
 <br><br>
-       We know all iGEM teams are doing amazing projects and Team ECUST would like to make them accessible to more people. Wechat Subscription is a platform available to everyone on which we can publish articles (we call them Wechat Push), and Team ECUST is running a subscription about iGEM. Therefore, if you are interested in making your project known by more people, you can send your project description to us and we will help in typesetting and publishing the article on our platform. Click here to see the description of ECUST (English version)<a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DCOHbCmIO_SidJkkZfW63Q">https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DCOHbCmIO_SidJkkZfW63Q</a>, Chinese version here <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tWKQTuiY2mFci0yVFsI-iA">https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/tWKQTuiY2mFci0yVFsI-iA</a>
+We are a cohort of passionate minds who are wholeheartedly devoted to this mission that seeks to communicate scientific ideas beyond the scope of a single language and therefore, we seek your cooperation.
 <br><br>
-       Given the limitation of space, we hope the English script of your project description can be within about 1,200 words and if necessary, we can offer to translate your English version into Chinese (first come, first served).
+As part of this collaboration, we expect you to translate a given script in your language and voice-record it. We will also send you the powerpoint presentation to which you are expected to attach the audio. Once you send us the edited presentation, we will convert it to a video and publicize it on our YouTube channels and other social media platforms. We will share the video with you and you ought to publicize on your social media platforms as well.
-<br><br>
+</p>
-       Looking forward to hearing from you!
+ 				</div>
-<br><br>
-       Sincerely,
-<br>
-       The 2019 ECUST iGEM Team</p>
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-					<h3> 45.  Team Communication and Issues Survey</h3>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
+        			<div class="title"> 41. One Minute iGEM Challenge</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Technion-Israel </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Zeinat Awwad - 1min.igem.challenge2019 [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEM Teams! </br>
+We are the iGEM Technion team from Israel, and we invite you to join the One minute video challenge.</br>
+Why? </br>
+Our goal is to reach to our communities and expose them to the wonders of science, as well as getting them more familiar with our project and understand it’s important. In addition, this will be a fantastic way for future teams to see what others did in the past, and hopefully get inspired to create their own amazing projects. </br>
+What do we want? </br></p>
+<p>
+If your team was challenged, you will have one week to do the following:
+<ul>
+<li>Make a one-minute video taking about your iGEM project in simple words.</li>
+<li>At the end of the video, you will say: “That’s one minute, we are____ “, and then present the name of your group.  </li>
+<li>Send the video to: 1min.igem.challenge2019@gmail.com. In the mail, mention your team name and 5 more team names that you want to challenge</li>
+<li>Approach the challenged teams and send us a screenshot of your message to them.</li></ul></p>
+<p>If you have any question, feel free to contact us. </br>
+We will soon upload our own one-minute video and challenge 5 more teams, and the challenge will begin. So start getting creative and show us what you’ve got! </br>
+Good luck, </br>
+iGEM Technion team</br>
+</p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Imperial College</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> London, United Kingdom</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> official.imperial.igem [at] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear fellow iGEMers,<br><br>
-We need your help. We’re sure that during the progression of the project, you have come to understand how crucial communication is for members within a team, and the lack of can be detrimental to the team and result in reduced efficiency, productivity, and most importantly affecting the wellbeing of the team members.<br><br>
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-We had our challenges when it came to getting along and tensions were high, but we have come a long way since then and we have decided that we do not want anything like that to happen again, not just for ourselves but for all.<br><br>
-We have decided to develop an app that allows every member of the team an equal opportunity to voice their opinions and concerns. In order to design our app and ensure its effectiveness, we need help from the iGEM community.  We have designed this survey on google poll for individual team members to fill out; the aim of this survey is to understand what difficulties other teams have faced (or may still be going through) when it comes to team communication. We understand that the topic we wish to discuss is sensitive by its nature, but we assure you that we will maintain as much anonymity as possible. The survey has been designed to not record any personal or institute names. We will only be using this survey to get an idea of what content to include in our app, we will not be using it for any other purpose.<br><br>
-Our only aim with this project is to further our understanding of issues faced by teams and design tools to help deal with them.<br><br>
-Here is the link to our Google survey:<br><br>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
+        			<div class="title"> 40. iGEM Lab Olympics</div>
+				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Stony Brook </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Kiara Kolaczyk- igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEMers! You are challenged to participate in the first ever iGEM Lab Olympics! This friendly competition provides a unique opportunity for teams to take a moment to focus on lab safety and lab techniques in a small competition! The goal is to perform the lab techniques in a safe matter in a short period of time, while yielding positive results. How it works: below is listed 10 different events. Participating teams are able to participate in however many events they would like, in order to qualify for a certain medal level. Bronze level is 0-4 events, silver is 5-8, gold is 9 or 10 events. Within each level, a winner will be selected and win a prize. The events are as follows:</p>
+					<p><ul>
+					<li>Pipetting- pipette microliters, 1.3, 12.8, 10, 70, 43, 100, 280.3, 402.74</li>
+					<li>Opening doors with gloves on, without contaminating- 3 push doors, 2 handled doors</li>
+					<li>Tube labeling and plate labeling- 5 plates, 2: 1.5-2 ml tubes, 3: 0.2ml tubes 0.2-0.5mL with date, name, and what it is</li>
+					<li>Balancing centrifuge- balance 2 tubes, 8 tubes, 9 tubes, 11 tubes, and 17 tubes in a centrifuge</li>
+					<li>Correctly weighing out substances- weigh in grams: 2.31, 10, 15.2, 37.28, 56.241</li>
+					<li>Applying full PPE on the fastest- gloves, lab coat, tying hair back, goggles</li>
+					<li>Tidying up a messy lab bench </li>
+					<li>Dirty gloves, Bunsen burner, pipettes, pipette tips, lab spill, plates, etc. </li>
+					<li>Defining lab safety by iGEM standards- quick video submission</li>
+					<li>Taking off gloves- remove ketchup covered gloves the fastest, in the correct way, without getting ketchup on you or anything/anyone else</li>
+					<li>Closing Biohazard waste box and disposing of properly</li>
+					</ul></p>
+					<p>The competition starts August 9th and will end August 23rd. Remember, the goal is LAB SAFETY!!! Event submissions should be posted on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, tagging @igem.stonybrook and using the hashtag #iGEMLabOlympics. Sign up by DMing our team on Instagram or emailing at igem.sub [AT] gmail.com</br>
+Best of luck to our olympians!</p>
+ 				</div>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj_2MJxT28Ta5bpP6KbsO-9dsiG4U4nq9GBq3tIVWi9tWbLw/viewform?usp=sf_link<br><br>
+			</div>
-Along the same lines of communication, we have also designed a science communication guideline, as another issue that we see in our field is inconsistency when it comes to sharing information with non-scientists and the general public. To help scientist tackle this, we have designed this interactive guide, which is still in its early phase, but we would appreciate any feedback that you could give us on its usefulness and any ways that we could improve it.<br><br>
-If you were to fill out the survey or use the communication guide, please do let us know so that we can add you to our collaborations page and link your wiki to ours.<br><br>
+<!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->
-We look forward to hearing from you.<br><br>
-Lots of iGEM love,<br><br>
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-Team Imperial</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
+        			<div class="title"> 39. Help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods</div>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Nanjing-China </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> NanJing University. xianlin avenueqixia district, Nanjing, China
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Name:Zhanyu Gao  <br>
+Tel：17751790805    <br>
+Email：nju171850571 [AT] 163.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We want to find some teams to help us collect the information on phosphorus content in domestic sewage worldwide and interim treatment methods. <br><br>The main purpose of our project is to use a newly developed engineering strain to enrich phosphorus in sewage with low COD and convert it into a slow-release fertilizer under another controllable condition, so as to achieve domestic sewage treatment as well as recycling and sustainable utilization of resources. Therefore, we hope to find cooperation teams from around the world to help us collect phosphorus content and information in domestic sewage and sewage treatment methods, so as to help us better the plan, apply it in practical treatment to a greater extent and in a larger scope thus apply changes to the world.</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 38. iGEM contact address directory</div>
-					<h3> 44. London iGEM trouble shooting meet-up</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> UNSW Australia</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> UNSW iGEM 2019, unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>The UNSW iGEM team has spent countless hours tracking finding a direct method to contact teams. To combat this problem, we would like to create a directory with all the iGEM teams contact details. What we ask of other teams is to send an email to <b>unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com</b> with the subject directory. In contents, we would like the email address as well as Instagram and Facebook details. We will compile this information and distribute it to all teams. </p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Teams:</b> Imperial College, UCL, KCL UK, Westminster UK</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> London, United Kingdom</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> official.imperial.igem [at] gmail.com ; ucl.igem [at] ucl.ac.uk ; igem.westminster.2019 [at] gmail.com ; kcligem [at] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We, the London university teams (Imperial, UCL, King’s and Westminster), are organising a social meet-up at King’s College London on the 16th of September where we will share issues that each team is facing and collectively solve them together. We believe that even though we are competing against each other in the iGEM competition, we are all still part of the same iGEM family, and family help each other always. So we, your London siblings, are calling out to all our sibling iGEM teams across the UK and further to join us at KCL where we can meet, talk and solve our problems together.   <br><br>
-If you would like to come, please do email us so we can have an understanding of numbers and can manage space accordingly. <br><br>
-We look forward to hearing from you.<br><br>
-Lots of iGEM love,<br><br>
-Team Imperial, UCL, KCL and Westminster</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_37"> </div>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
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+        			<div class="title"> 37. Escape Box – Europe</div>
-					<h3> 43. London Synthbio and iGEM outreach</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> TelHai-Migal Israel </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Tel hai academic collage, Israel
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Igem2019 [AT] migal.org.il
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>European iGEM team? This message is for you!</p>
+					<p>European researcher’s night(ERN) is coming and we want to collaborate with a team and share our scientific activities.</p>
+					<p>Our major project for ERN is an escape box. An escape box is a miniature escape room with a bunch of scientific puzzles and riddles which lead to the box being opened. </p>
+					<p>The main idea of this collaboration is raising awareness for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). </p>
+					<p>Each group will pick a theme or a main SGD for the riddles path on their box. Then, we will exchange the boxs between the teams and use it during the event.</p>
+					<p>By playing the box quest we are raising awareness for UN SDGs and iGEM as well and also contributing to Integrated Human Practice!</p>
+					<p>Dates to be aware of:</p>
+					<p>Application Date Deadline: <b>August 10th</b></p>
+					<p>On <b>August 12th</b> we will choose the most suitable team for the purpose.</p>
+					<p>Sending the box: <b>September 1st</b> to ensure the box arriving before the event.</p>
+					<p>We would love to hear from you!</p>
+					<p>Contact us by email: Igem2019 [AT] migal.org.il</p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Teams:</b> Imperial College, UCL, KCL UK, Westminster UK</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> London, United Kingdom</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> official.imperial.igem [at] gmail.com ; ucl.igem [at] ucl.ac.uk ; igem.westminster.2019 [at] gmail.com ; kcligem [at] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We, the London university teams (Imperial, UCL, King’s and Westminster), are organising an outreach event aimed towards high school students, introducing them to synthetic biology and iGEM. We plan on having key note speakers, a panel style talk and a poster session of the current iGEM team’s projects. We would like to invite all iGEM teams, close and far, to come take part in our event by presenting their posters to teenagers and showing them the scope of synthetic biology.<br><br>
-If you would like to present, please do email us so we can have an understanding of numbers and can manage space accordingly.<br><br>
-We look forward to hearing from you.<br><br>
-Lots of iGEM love,<br><br>
-Team Imperial, UCL, KCL and Westminster</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
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+        			<div class="title"> 36. Insulin Project Collaboration </div>
-					<h3> 42. Working with Bacteriophages: A Primer</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> ULaVerne Collab </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of La Verne, California, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> ulvigemteam [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEM folks!
+<br><br>
+We are synthesizing fast-acting and long-lasting insulin in E. coli BL21 this summer. Since small-scale insulin production is a challenging yet rapidly-rising process, we would like to seek out to our other teams that are also working with insulin in hopes of exchanging data (such as regarding chassis used, insulin production and efficiency under different conditions...) and discussing improvements possibilities, future applications, and resources that we could perhaps share with each other.
+<br><br>
+Even if you are not working with insulin specifically but are still interested in forming collaborations, feel free contact us via email or social media (ULV iGEM). We look forward to hearing from you! :)
+<br><br>
+Warm regards,<br>
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+ULV iGEM 2019
-					<p><b>Team:</b> IISc-Bangalore</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Indian Institute of Science, India</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Bhaskar Kumawat<br>
-kbhaskar [AT] iisc.ac.in<br>
-iisc.igem2019 [AT] gmail.com </p>
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+</p>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>As a team working with phages for the first time, we are realizing that there are a lot of things that need to be taken into account when doing so. A significant portion of our phage team's efforts went into troubleshooting and resolving issues with very common experiments (like the plaque assay). To ensure that no future teams face similar problems, we are working on a brief list of commandments for phage work that we think every team should necessarily practice. As such, we request all the teams who have previously worked (or are currently working) with phages to send us tips and enhancements to phage protocols that they've used. This list of suggestions will be compiled into a single point resources for all iGEM teams in the future.<br><br>
-There's no set deadline for this collaboration because we can keep on adding new things to the primer, but we'll suggest you send in your submissions by 31st August.<br><br>
+ 				</div>
-See you at the Jamboree!</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Edinburgh UG</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Freddie Starkey, edinburghigem2019 [AT] gmail.com </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We in Team Edinburgh UG are looking for a team we can collaborate with in order to verify the results of our mathematical modelling work in the wet lab. We have created a model to predict the activation time of a DNA degrading killswitch device however unfortunately we are running short on wet lab time in which to verify our predictions and obtain data to further improve our model. If you would be interested in helping us out and participating in what we believe would be a very fruitful collaboration please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 35. iGEM Plant Teams and Plant Modelling Collaboration </div>
-					<h3> 40. Multi-function collaboration</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Stony Brook </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br>Anh Vo- igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello Fellow iGEM Teams!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> AFCM-EGYPT</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Egypt </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.afcm [AT] gmail.com or mahmoudabdelgawad0000 [AT] gmail.com ( Mahmoud AbdelGawad) </p>
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+We are interested in collaborating with other teams in regards with our project. Our team is working with Agrobacterium Tumefaciens GV3101, GV2260, EHA105 and Saccharomyces Cerevisiae BY4741. We are working on seeing if Xrn1 from yeast can degrade Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) natively. We are also working on doing a Transient Expression Assay on Nicotiana Benthamiana. The plasmids we are working with are both plant expression and bacterial expression plasmids. They are both ~12-13kb. We are using Hifi assembly to ligate the plasmids.
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hey, iGEMers everywhere!<br>
-Greetings from the land of pharaohs!<br>
-As this is our third time to participate in the competition, we decided to have a greater impact this year.<br><br>
-Our Bioinformaticians and IT members would like to cooperate with other teams and offer them a helping hand in the following topics: <br>
-• Retrieval and analysis of the genetic network related to certain diseases with high ranking score and low false discovery rate using public microarray databases<br>
-• Drug-protein interaction optimization and docking using Chimera and/or PyMOL<br>
-• Pathway enrichment for determined gene(s)
 <br><br>
-Translations:<br>
-We can help in translating different documents to arabic or english and help in distributing surveys on our students
- so you  can have better results and statistics .
-We'll be glad if you contact us at  igem.afcm [AT] gmail.com to start our collaboration or for any further enquiries!</p>
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+If any teams are working with Agrobacterium, Nicotiana Benthamiana, or HiFi assembly, we would love to collaborate!
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+We also have potential for Dry Lab collaborations. We could be discussing what modeling each team is doing, doing code exchanges, and testing out each other's models. If you are interested in either this or any of the things mentioned above please contact us!
+<br><br>
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+Thank you for your time!<br>
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+Stony Brook iGEM 2019 Team
-					<h3> 39. A better iGEM for future teams!</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Uppsala</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Uppsala, Sweden </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Elin Ramström & Matilda Brink, projectleader [AT] igemuppsala.se</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>This year, besides on working on our main project, our human practices group works on behalf of every future iGEM Team developing a booklet about burn outs and how to prevent it. At least in iGEM Uppsala we have a history with dedicated people struggling with this matter. This should never happen in iGEM which is why we work to prevent it!
-<br><br>
-Right now we are gathering information from other teams than Uppsala <b>so for future iGEM Teams sake, please fill in our survey about the work environment during iGEM Projects and send it to your team members and previous teams! We would be very grateful.</b>
-<br><br>
-Link to form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWUVgq_Dm1nZTH6d8_JYZohyt8Gwf_sMTF1MaoWJLEjndQXg/viewform?usp=send_form">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWUVgq_Dm1nZTH6d8_JYZohyt8Gwf_sMTF1MaoWJLEjndQXg/viewform?usp=send_form</a></p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 34.  iGEM "Social Media" Hub </div>
-					<h3>38. Survey Assessment: Creating a better iGEM environment for you</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Virginia  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Virginia, United States
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br>Alec Brewer ab4dg [AT] virginia.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello iGEM teams! How convenient would it be for all teams' social media information to be in one place? The iGEM "Social Media" Hub will serve to do just that. This forum will enable easier communication and collaboration between teams. We will arrange the data collected in a spreadsheet for all teams to use as it grows. By collecting one point of contact via email and team's social media accounts, communication can be opened far more readily at the outset of each competition year.
+<br><br>
+Add your team's social media information to the Hub by filling out this quick form: <a href="https://forms.gle/KuJfdDdsPjsan8Gv5">https://forms.gle/KuJfdDdsPjsan8Gv5</a>
+<br>Link to the growing iGEM "Social Media" Hub: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cXhGEHUVidVXnVu7MVs_BEn6f2HkQ_pg_fReKKY6C5c/edit?usp=sharing">Click here</a>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> UC San Diego </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> La Jolla, California</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Kalyani Kottilil, kkottili [AT] ucsd.edu</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Hey iGEM-ers! We are looking for your feedback to look for ways in which we can work together and improve the overall iGEM and synthetic biology experience.
-<br><br>
-Please fill out the following survey: <br><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7L7ThdOaoR4atYHG82HBqZv_ZGw7GDmAXkudnaLeIB86MVg/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7L7ThdOaoR4atYHG82HBqZv_ZGw7GDmAXkudnaLeIB86MVg/viewform</a>
-<br><br>
-It's a super quick form, and the information that we gather from you will prove important in building a better environment for all people who want to be involved in synthetic biology. We will acknowledge any teams that participate and wish to be recognized.
-<br><br>
-Thanks so much!<br>
-iGEM UC San Diego 2019</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 33. iGEMeme </div>
-					<h3>37. Comic Book Translation Request</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Saint Joseph </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Istanbul, Turkey
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi iGEMers,</p>
+					<p>We are organising a meme competition. You need to make memes about iGEM. Lets see who can meme iGem the best!!! You can post your meme on Instagram with #igememesj19. The winner will be announced on Instagram and they will win a special prize!!! Lets not forget, laughing is the best medicine!!!</p>
+					<p>Our deadline is on October 21.</p>
+					<p>Thanks,</br>Igem Saint Joseph
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> OUC-China </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> OUC-iGEMers; E-mail: oucigem [AT] 163.com</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Hey, we are OUC-China! We have finished a comic book which is about synthetic biology. By doing this, we want to let more and more people know about synthetic biology all over the world. Thus we want to translate it into several different languages.
-Now we have contact several teams who can translate it into English, Estonian, Russian, French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish.If you can translate it into other languages, welcome to email(oucigem@163.com) us. The translation deadline is September,20.</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 32. Need thermostable proteins?</div>
-					<h3>36. Cancer
- Relapse Detection - CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) for point-of-care Implementation</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Potsdam </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Universität Potsdam, Germany
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Bryan Nowack, igem.up [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We are a Software track team and want to generate thermostable proteins using machine learning algorithms. If you would like to have (possibly) thermostable variants of your protein of interest, we can run our model on it and give you a list of putative mutations which could increase the melting temperature of it. If we send you the variants, we would like you to test whether they are actually more thermostable so that we can verify our model in vitro and see if it actually works as intended.
+<br><br>
+If you want to collaborate with us, please send us an e-mail with your peptide (primary structure, FASTA format) and, ideally, give us additional information about your protein (for example active centers so that we can avoid mutating these and reduce the false positive rate). We expect to be able to send out the lists of possible variants starting from the end of July.
+<br><br>
+We hope to hear from you!
+<br><br>
+iGEM Potsdam 2019
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+</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> EPFL </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Lausanne, Switzerland </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Samuel Gomez, e-mail: samuel.gomez [AT] epfl.ch</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Our team is focused
- on the development of a new therapeutic approach to target melanoma cancer using immunotherapy method, with a focus on vaccines. Furthermore, the project aims to integrate personalised medicine approaches, including a non-invasive follow-up assay that targets
- miRNA and circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA fragments from the cancer cells that circulate in the blood) as biomarkers for relapse detection.</p>
-<p>One of our goals is develop our detection scheme into a  portable point-of-care assay. We would also like to collaborate on increasing sensitivity and specificity of our detection assay and to compare with other methods of detection that use CRISPR-Cas12a.
- We are also working on the possibility of a quantitative colorimetric scheme ( for Cas13a as well ) that will replace fluorescent readouts in order to quantify the amount of ctDNA we have in the blood. In addition to this, we are interested in teams that are
- developing better storage conditions for CRISPR-Cas12a as well as teams that have experience with product (kit) development ( and 3D printers ) as are working on the possibility of developing a kit for our assay, including the step of ctDNA isolation from
- blood/plasma/serum. </p>
-<p>We would be open to collaborate with teams that are working on any of these aspects of our project in any way possible. We wish all teams the best of luck in their endeavours. See you guys in Boston!</p>
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-					<h3>35. Cancer Relapse Detection - CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) and Dumbbell Probes (Rolling Circle Amplification)</h3>
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-					<p><b>Team: </b>EPFL </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location: </b>Lausanne, Switzerland</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information: </b>Samuel Gomez, e-mail: samuel.gomez [AT] epfl.ch</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Our team is focused on the development of a new therapeutic approach to target melanoma cancer using immunotherapy method, with a focus on vaccines. Furthermore, the project aims to integrate personalised medicine approaches, including a non-invasive follow-up assay that targets miRNA and circulating-tumour DNA (ctDNA fragments from the cancer cells that circulate in the blood) as biomarkers for relapse detection.</p>
-<p>We aim to use CRISPR-Cas12a to detect chromosomal rearrangements in ctDNA (a unique sequence of ctDNA specific to the cancer cells of approximately 60-bp).  We are looking for collaborations with teams that are working with, or have previously worked with CRISPR-Cas12a or Cas13a to detect mutations or genetic sequences, as well as experience in producing and purifying this protein.</p>
-<p>Another very important biomarker for cancer relapse is miRNA. We are designing dumbbell probes in order to perform rolling circle amplification of miRNA, we are also working on the development of a script to simplify these probe designs from miRNA, and the
- detection will also be using CRISPR-Cas12a proteins. </p>
-<p>We would be open to collaborate with teams that are working on any of these aspects of our project in any way possible. We wish all teams the best of luck in their endeavours. See you guys in Boston! </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 31. iGEM Art Competition</div>
-					<h3>34. Wiki Webscraper</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> TU Kaiserslautern</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Technical University of Kaiserslautern; Kaiserslautern, Germany
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Lara Peters (igem [AT] bio.uni-kl.de)
+</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello fellow iGEM-Teams,
+<br><br>
+We, the iGEM-Team of Kaiserslautern, Germany, are hosting an art competition where participants can win amazing prizes!
+<br><br>
+<b>How does it work?</b>
+<br>
+Every iGEM-Team is called to collect artworks about genetic engineering in its area. Any art technique will be accepted and a short text from each artist about their work will be requested. Thereby we want to gain an impression on the general attitude towards genetic engineering.
+<br><br>
+To find out more about the competition visit our art competition site for iGEM-Teams:
+<a href="https://www.uni-kl.de/hochschulgruppen/iGEM/en/collaboration/">https://www.uni-kl.de/hochschulgruppen/iGEM/en/collaboration/</a>
+<br><br>
+As a motivation, the iGEM-Team collecting the most pieces will be rewarded with an artwork about their project which will be specially created for them.
+<br><br>
+If you are interested please contact us via email or social media!
+<br><br>
+Kind regards,<br>
+iGEM TU Kaiserslautern 2019
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Virginia </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Virginia, USA </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> virginia.igem [AT] gmail.com</p>
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+</p>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> We made a wiki webscraper that pulls current project descriptions from all 2019 iGEM wiki pages. We created this tool to more easily find other teams to collaborate with who have projects that are similar to ours. This tool is versatile; with the right "filters" and a bit of editing, you can also pull data like wetlab procedures, Human Practices, and past year's projects that are similar to your project. We have a command-line interface and GUI available; if you would like to use our tool, please visit our GitHub page: <a href="https://github.com/Virginia-iGEM/igem-wikiscraper">https://github.com/Virginia-iGEM/igem-wikiscraper</a> or contact us via email if you have any questions.
-  </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 30. Emerald Challenge</div>
-					<h3>33. Survey on Chassis Bacteria and Nicotine</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> UCL</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University College London, UK
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Clare Robinson - ucl.igem [AT] ucl.ac.uk
+</p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello all! <br><br>
+Our team this year has been inspired by the action around the world on climate change, and although our project is not directly related, we wanted to incorporate sustainability into our summer as we believe in order to address this crisis we must act in all aspects of our lives! <br><br>
+Building from Dresden’s iGEM goes Green, and Boston 2018 GreenGEM, we’ve created a 3-step Emerald Challenge. <br><br>
+Step 1 is a miniguide and photo checklist challenge, we’re asking teams to follow our miniguide and picture their team completing 10 simple lab sustainability tasks (listed on our Step 1: Emerald Checklist) <br>
+Step 2 will be a handover document, that teams can create to pass down to their ‘descendents’ (institutions’ future teams) to sustain the sustainable lab practices. <br>
+Step 3 will be a ‘document your failures’ getting teams to document negative findings (often overlooked). Since any resources spent on findings that are never shared (even negative ones), are wasted resources! <br><br>
+We have finished and released Step 1 on our wiki and social media platforms, and are working on Steps 2 and 3. We are open to suggestions on these steps and can’t wait to hear from participating teams! Teams that finish all Steps in the challenge will be able to advertise their Emerald qualifications, and will be advertised on our wiki and presentations! <br><br>
+Find out more and access our miniguide and checklist for step 1 on our wiki: <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Team:UCL/Sustainability">https://2019.igem.org/Team:UCL/Sustainability</a><br>
+Or contact us via email (ucl.igem@ucl.ac.uk), twitter(@UCLiGEM), instagram (@ucligem2019) or facebook! <br><br>
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+UCL iGEM 2019
+</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b>  SKLMT-China </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Shandong University, China </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> sklmt.china.igem [at] gmail [dot] com to Mr. Gao </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Dear iGEMers!<bR> We have created a survey that we would love for all iGEMers to take. We’re gathering some information about the usage of bacteria chassis in your lab, and information of nicotine in different areas, as we’re working on a nicotine project using Pseudomonas fluorescens as our chassis. If your team could finish these problems, you would do a great help to our project, and therefore we would have a nice collaboration. And we would appreciate it if you could share our survey with non-iGEMers as well. <br> Here’s the survey: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAub3_J0m18up-nsLAJzSm-nbf_AQe5vOGZ52H37t-lPYJbQ/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAub3_J0m18up-nsLAJzSm-nbf_AQe5vOGZ52H37t-lPYJbQ/viewform</a><bR> If you have other interesting thoughts or advice, please contact us! We would be glad to learn about your idea and acknowledge your help on our wiki!
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-					<p><b>Team:</b>  TecCEM </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Mexico State (Mexico City) </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information: </b>igem.tec.cem [at] gmail.com - +52 (55) 19269772 </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We are planing to make a song video where we want all the teams to participate.  The music video is called “Labs Like You” and is inspired in Maroon 5’s song “Girls Like You”. If you are willing to collaborate, we will send you a tutorial video wich will explain how to record your team scene. The inscription deadline is the August 3rd. <br>
-					Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM  </p>
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-					<h3>31. Recombination Strategies</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Virginia</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Virginia, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Alec Brewer (ab4dg [AT] virginia.edu)
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>As part of our collaboration effort, our team has joined the Expanded Polystyrene Task Force under UVA Sustainability to address Styrofoam use in labs. Our survey will estimate its use in iGEM labs to determine its global distribution, size preference and disposal. This data will be used to weigh the accuracy of similar data collected at UVA and other local waste facilities to aid use-reduction efforts. <a href="https://forms.gle/okNcWLsXADFTVDTG6">https://forms.gle/okNcWLsXADFTVDTG6</a>
+<br><br>
+To thank teams for their contribution, everyone who fills out the form will be featured on our collaborations and/or integrated human practices tab on our wiki!
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> UConn</p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> uconnigem [at] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> This year, our team is interested in “knocking out” certain genes from the genome of E. coli but initially struggled with finding a way to do so. We began to look into recombineering; we’d heard of CRISPR through science news and past Jamborees and recognized lambda-red recombineering from reading past wikis, but we were unsure how to design recombineering experiments ourselves. We’ve done a lot of reading to plan the experiments for our lambda-red recombineering knockouts, and we wanted to know how your team approached recombination and the outcomes of your efforts. </p>
-<p>Our team is interested in collaborating to put together a guide to recombination strategies in E. coli, similar to what TU Eindhoven did in 2015 for cloning (<a href="https://2015.igem.org/wiki/images/9/9a/TU_Eindhoven_The_Cloning_Guide.pdf">https://2015.igem.org/wiki/images/9/9a/TU_Eindhoven_The_Cloning_Guide.pdf</a>), and we need your help! We have made a set of questions to facilitate discussion about the recombineering system that you used, and we will compile them to make one cohesive guide. </p>
-<p>If you’re interested in participating, send us an email and we’ll get you the questions. Looking forward to collaborating with you!
-  </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 28. Cooking with iGEM</div>
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-					<h3>30. Bio-Bricking Tool (BBrickIt!)</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Saint Joseph</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> ICT-Mumbai</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Istanbul Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Turkey
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India</p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Supriya S. Prakash, email: igemteamictmumbai [at] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> We attempted to create a Bio-Bricking tool that makes your work easier. Just enter the gene sequence and the tool will automatically Bio-Brick the part for you following the rules. Furthermore it checks for cutters too!! Download the .exe file  from our iGEM GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/igemsoftware2019/Team_ICT_Mumbai">https://github.com/igemsoftware2019/Team_ICT_Mumbai</a> and run :)
 </p>
-<p>Feedback and suggestions for improvements are most welcome!!
+        		</div>
-  </p>
-				</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Merhaba iGEMers,
+<br><br>
+Today we would like to announce our “Cooking with iGEM” competition. In this competition, we ask from you to cook cookie(s) that express the iGEM the best! After making the cookie(s), please send us a picture of them to our mail. The winner will be announced on our Instagram account “igem_saintjoseph” The winners will get a special prize!!! It’s time to get creative ;)
+</p>
+					<p>The deadline is October 21.</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 27. Mini-Survey about waste waters</div>
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-					<h3> 29. Plant Project   </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Saint Joseph</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Istanbul Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Turkey
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemsaintjoseph19 [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Bonjour iGEMers around the world,<br><br>
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+We want to know, what you think about waste waters with an mini-survey. Our survey is the link below. Thank you for your cooperation. <br><br>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Cardiff Wales - RNAphId  </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Cardiff University, Wales</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information: </b>Lily Thomas- thomaslm13 [at] cardiff.ac.uk or Emily Heath HeathEA [at] cardiff.ac.uk </p>
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+<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffAuyjvb2C3JMh1IC-esP3H5UZ3vH2VvGf9qaCKnPc3wH7Ow/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffAuyjvb2C3JMh1IC-esP3H5UZ3vH2VvGf9qaCKnPc3wH7Ow/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></p>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+					<p>The deadline is August 20.</p>
-					<p> We are seeking to collaborate with anther plant team- we are open to suggestions on how anyone could offer us any help! We can offer other teams support by testing their promotors or constructs in a plant system!
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+        			<div class="title"> 26. Science Sketches</div>
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-					<h3> 28. Mike the Microbe </h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> NYU Abu Dhabi</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> nyuad.igem2019 [AT] nyu.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Dear iGEM Community,<br><Br>
+This is a collaboration request to ALL iGEM teams! Join us in showcasing the wonderment of iGEM and synthetic biology by creating a science sketch (or writing a script and storyboard for one) of your team’s project or any major techniques/principles that your project is using.
+<br><br>
+Through the series of 1-3-minute sketches, we hope to promote public awareness of the iGEM competition as well as to show how synthetic biology can be utilized to solve problems facing mankind in an innovative manner!
+<br><br>
+The aim of the science sketches is to make a <b>collaborative educational playlist</b> with videos from teams all over the world, about <b>their projects and/or the scientific principle behind their project</b>. This playlist will be made public, so that any iGEM team can use it in their outreach activities, thus enabling all teams to spread the knowledge of synthetic biology to their communities.<br><br>
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+You can either send us the complete science sketch video or a recorded script and written storyboard, and we’ll illustrate it for you! It is preferable that we receive the video of the science sketches before the <b>20th of September, 2019</b>. This would give us enough time to make the playlist and also show it in outreach events. Please make sure to add your team's name and your institution's name at the end or beginning of the video. <br><br>
-					<p><b>Team:</b>  US AFRL CarrollHS </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Carroll High School located in Dayton, Ohio </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem [at] carrollhs.org, Twitter: @iGEMLabPats, or  Instagram: @igemlabpats </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Hello fellow iGEMers! We are excited to announce that Mike the Microbe is back! We invite every iGEM team to participate in our collaboration. Just print out Mike the Microbe, take a picture with him, either with your team or in the lab, and tag us on social media/send it to us. If you are interested in participating, please contact us to receive Mike. We can't wait to see all the creative pictures!
-  </p>
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+Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We have also created a detailed description of <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Team:NYU_Abu_Dhabi/Sketch_Guide">how to make a science sketch</a>. Hope this helps!<br><br>
+Curious about what science sketches are like? Check out the science sketch that our team has created for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvLuWYRRZs&feature=youtu.be">iGEM</a>! Here are two other examples explaining <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5U0xBHchHw">RPA</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/BelG3wllPao">LAMP</a> for those considering making one for scientific principles/techniques. <br><br>
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+Join us and have a lot of fun! Be creative!<br>
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+We look forward to hearing from you!<br><br>
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-					<h3> 27. Build Your Wiki Faster! </h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Virginia</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Virginia, United States of America  </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b>    virginia.igem [at] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Haven't started your wiki yet?
-<br>
-We created a wiki-build tool that allows you to automate your workflow on your wiki. With the build tool, you can upload all your pages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and images with one command all at once. Additionally, this tool allows you to iterate faster, as you can edit your website locally on your desktop and immediately see the changes you made. If you're interested in using this tool or want to help improve this tool by making it more user friendly, we would love to collaborate with you! Our email is virginia.igem [at] gmail.com.
+Warm regards,<br>
- <br>
+iGEM NYU Abu Dhabi 2019</p>
-With love,<br>
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-Virginia iGEM  </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 25. Global Business Plan</div>
-					<h3> 26. Survey on Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern  </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> UNSW Australia </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> UNSW, Australia
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> unsw.igem [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>The UNSW iGEM team are looking at bridging the gap between science and business. We are asking for help to form a global business plan scaffold for scientists. This will provide other iGEM teams, as well as the science community at large, a standardised method for commercialising ideas, building on the entrepreneurial elements of iGEM.</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b>  iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec</p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Bielefeld (Germany)  </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b>  Irina Rais, e-Mail: info [at] igem-bielefeld.de</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> Dear iGEM community,<br>
-we prepared a survey on the state of knowledge about the topics Dual Use and Dual Use Research of Concern in which scientists from different German universities participated. To get an international outlook on the state of knowledge and to make comparisons, there is now a new, international version. We would be very happy if a large number of you would take part! <br>
-<a href=" https://www.soscisurvey.de/DualUseResearchofConcern/"> https://www.soscisurvey.de/DualUseResearchofConcern/</a>
- <br>
-Thank you and best wishes! <br>
-iGEM Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2019  </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 24. Teams working with Anaerobes (or have access to an Anaerobic cabinet)</div>
+				</div>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Nottingham</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> UK, Nottingham
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Millie Johnson - nottinghamigem [AT] outlook.com
+</p>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello everybody!</p>
+					<p>We, the Nottingham iGEM team, were wondering if anybody out there is working with anaerobes or has access to an anaerobic cabinet!</p>
+					<p>If so: email or message us on Instagram and we can talk through potentially collaborating!</p>
+					<p>Our idea is to replicate each others growth curve data (or if you have any other ideas involving working with anaerobes/anaerobic cabinets we can do that too)!</p>
+					<p>Many thanks,</br>Nottingham iGEM team 2019</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 23. The GoldenGate webinar</div>
-					<h3> 25. After iGEM get together </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Marburg</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Philipps University of Marburg; Marburg, Germany
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Jonas Freudigmann - syntex.marburg [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Golden Gate Assembly is an awesome method that uses the ability of Type IIS restriction endonucleases to cut DNA outside of its recognition sequence for scarless cloning. This provides lots of possibilities for modular cloning, giving you more freedom and control about the constructs you want to build!</p>
+					<p>If you want to learn all the necessities to build your own Golden Gate constructs, tune in to our webinar!
+Here's what you can expect from this session:</p>
+					<p><ul><li>Motivation - Why should you use Golden Gate? What are its applications?</li>
+					<li>101 Golden Gate - everything about Type IIs restriction enzymes and different standards</li>
+					<li>Construction of your own toolbox - how to implement GoldenGate into your project</li>
+					<li>Methods - actual workflow in the lab, tips and tricks for efficient cloning</li>
+					<li>Do it yourself - we will guide you through your first constructs!</li>
+					<li>Already using GoldenGate? - brand new ideas, additions and useful expansions</li></ul></p>
+					<p>These are the dates on which the webinar will take place:</br>
+					<ul><li>Tuesday, July 30th 2019 10:00 CET</li>
+					<li>Wednesday, July 31st 2019 18:00 CET</li>
+					<li>Thursday, August 8th 2019 24:00 CET</li></ul></p>
+					<p>Furthermore, we created a slack workspace that you can join by following <a href="https://goldengatecloning.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtNjc0ODU4MDU3NjY1LTJiMmM4N2M2YjIyNzYxNWFjM2YwYmQyOWE3MzViNmU0NmI2ODZjN2Y3M2ViOTMzNDUxMWU2ZjRjZWUxMjM1Yzc">this link</a>. We will post all our protocols and provide you with support for all the questions that might arise when working with GoldenGate. </p>
+					<p>Just contact us, check our social media or fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeU41uv7uTYF9VBgMekiL1zVALa1Y8Pz3D0azE6rbkHBEaTxA/viewform">this google form</a>, if you want to join:</br>
+					<ul><li>Instagram: igem.marburg.2019</li>
+					<li>Twitter: @iGEMmarburg2019</li>
+					<li>Facebook: @IGEMMarburg2019</li></ul></p>
+					<p>See you in the webinar!</br>Your Syntex Team from Marburg </p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Tec-Monterrey </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico  </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igemtecmonterrey [at] gmail.com </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p> The 2019 Tec-Monterrey team is organizing a special event after our National Congress of Sciences (September 14-15, at ITESM) where participants will be able to share their experiences over a discussion panel and a small networking session .
-If any team is interested in collaborating (video conferences can be arranged), please contact us!  </p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 22. The Voice iGEM Contest </div>
-					<h3> 24. Survey on Public Engagement of iGEM Teams</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> Wageningen UR </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Robert Hooftman - igemsongcontest [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>To our beloved iGEMers out there,</br>
+					From the central office of the iGEM Wageningen 2019 team, we have been designing a plan to create the ultimate merge of iGEM, science and art. That’s why we present to you The Voice iGEM contest! The only thing you need to do as a team is to send us a PARODY song via email before the 11th AUGUST!!, which should have original lyrics (feel free to express your misery) and be sung by one or multiple members of your team. It may include a video or not, that’s up to you. The songs will be evaluated by a very professional jury at Wageningen University and three winners will be announced:</p>
+					<p><ul><li>Best lyrics</li>
+					<li>Best singing voice</li>
+					<li>Best video</li></ul></p>
+					<p>The winners will have their parody song posted on our glamourous wiki.</br>
+					Are you up for a challenge in the most iconic scientific song contest ever? Then join The Voice iGEM and send us your parody song before the 11th August! You can sign up by sending us a message via Instagram (@igem.wageningen) or by sending an email to igemsongcontest [at] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> UCopenhagen</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Copenhagen</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b>Natthawut Max Adulyanukosol igemku2019 [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>    Dear present and past iGEMers,
-<br><br>
-    Everyone knows iGEM really wants to put the science, the fun, and the cooperation into focus. The spotlight is now on all of us iGEMers to make sure we can go forth, engage more people, and do it well!
-<br><br>
-    We would like to invite everyone to join us in learning how we approach public engagement and how can go further engaging the public. Please help us fill in this survey: <a href="https://bit.ly/igem-survey">https://bit.ly/igem-survey</a>
-    Let’s share the experience, the good times and the struggles. Cooperation is the keyword here.
-<br><br>
-    Our team will collect your insights, analyse them, and present the findings to the iGEM community. We will help you promote your social media channels as well.
-<br><br>
-    Ultimately, we will unite in spreading the word of iGEM and synthetic biology to the world!
-<br><br>
-    Cheers,
-<br>
-    University of Copenhagen iGEM 2019 Team
-					</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 21. How to iGEM - a video collaboration project </div>
-					<h3> 23. Language Project</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> TU Dresden </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> BIOTEC, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Mara Müller, tudigem2019 [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We are planning to do a video-series of very short explanation videos about the most important points and challenges that students face during the competition.  It is not only going to be a collaboration between this years iGEM teams but also to all future students taking part in the collaboration. Our experience and solutions will help future teams navigating the requirements of the competition. The following videos are planned:</p>
+					<p><ol><li>What it iGEM?</li>
+					<li>How to -> Wiki? (How to upload text, documents and pictures in the wiki)</li>
+					<li>How to-> Distribution Kit? (What does it contain, what can you use it for an how)</li>
+					<li>How to -> Biorbick? (How to use biobricks, and how to design your own)</li></ol></p>
+					<p>Teams can collaborate with us by sending us ideas on what they think future students will need help with or by telling us what their team was struggeling with. If the idea fits in the concept of this video-series the collaborating team can send us a script for a video and we will record the audio and add visuals to help the explanation. Each video will be around 1-2minutes, so the script should not be longer then one page.</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> IIT-Madras</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> IIT-Madras, India</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem [AT] smail.iitm.ac.in</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Are you interested in making educational Synthetic Biology videos in your native language? We have already done it in English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Hindi.
-<br><br>
-Look at our work here <a href="https://bit.ly/lang_proj">bit.ly/lang_proj</a>
-<br><br>
-Collaborate with us, we will send you the English script, translate it into your native language and record an audio of the script and send it to us!
-<br><br>
-Excited to have you on board, we will be more than happy to list and acknowledge your help on our list of Collaborations, Wiki and YouTube videos.
-					</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_20"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 20. Sorting CereMonera </div>
-					<h3> 22. ChassiDex Data</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> IISc-Bangalore </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemiisc [AT] gmail.com, Instagram: igem_iisc
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Namaste fellow iGEMers!</p>
+					<p>iGEM is not only a platform for students to showcase their scientific expertise but also to spread the ideas of synthetic biology. Therefore, this year’s iGEM team of Indian Institute of Science(IISc) has come up with a fun & engaging way to collaborate with other iGEM teams via a unique challenge, the ‘Sorting CereMonera.’ </p>
+					<p>In this challenge, all the participating iGEM teams will play the role of the SORTING HAT (from the popular Harry Potter universe). They will sort microorganisms (bacteria, fungi or viruses) into different Houses/Characters of Harry Potter and/or Game of Thrones. Teams will have to justify their sorting creatively, through a picture, drawing, video or comic strip which must then be posted on Instagram (tagging our ID and hashtag). We intend to show the best comic strips and ideas to students during our sessions in schools and colleges. And of course, the most creative team wins a small prize from us.</p>
+					<p>Since the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones fan communities are extremely widespread, with this challenge, we hope to ignite a spark among the non-scientific community to encourage learning. Thus, we not only expect the challenge to be a good team building exercise but we also aim to reach out to a larger community and spread knowledge about biology.</p>
+					<p>Cheers.</p>
+					<p>Thanking you, </br>iGEM team</br>Indian Institute of Science 2019</p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> IIT-Madras</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> IIT-Madras, India</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem [AT] smail.iitm.ac.in</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>ChassiDex is a database of host organisms containing all the information needed to work with the organism listed. Have a look at the database here <a href="https://chassidex.org/">https://chassidex.org/</a>
-<br><br>
-        Are you working with a "different" chassis?
-<br><br>
-Help us out by filling this Google form with the necessary information, your entry will be curated and put up on our database.
-We will be happy to acknowledge your contribution on both our database and on our Wiki.
-<br><br>
-<a href="https://goo.gl/forms/b5tDcKSiTRYXFMxt2">https://goo.gl/forms/b5tDcKSiTRYXFMxt2</a>
-					</p>
-				</div>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_19"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 19. Who Wore it Best? </div>
-					<h3> 21. -US COLLAB -</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Stony Brook  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Kiara Kolaczyk - igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Do you have what it takes to make a SINGLE labcoat, into something ready for the runway? Stony Brook iGEM presents the #labcoatchallege </p>
+					<p>How it works: <br>
+Take one standard lab coat, and without cutting, sewing, duct tape, etc, ONLY by tying, make the lab coat into an outfit other than the standard lab coat use. DO NOT DO THIS IN THE LAB, lab coats should only be worn in the standard way, when in the lab.</p>
+					<p>When your team has come up with their design, have a member “model” it off by walking down a “runway” to whatever music you think matches your outfit design. Once you have created your design, post your video on your team's Instagram page and tag @igem.stonybrook and one other team that you are challenging to a "walk off." The challenge will start July 1st and end July 14th... and the winner will be announced! Email the Stony Brook team at igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com or DM us @igem.stonybrook on Instagram to sign up and participate! The submissions will be posted on JULY 15th on our team’s Instagram, @igem.stonybrook, Twitter, @IGEMSBU, and our Facebook page, @iGEM at Stony Brook, where you can cast your votes for which design you like best! </p>
+					<p>Best of luck to the competitors!<br>
+Stony Brook iGEM 2019 Team</p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Exeter</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Exeter, United Kingdom</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Nahnsu Dawkins , exeteruniversityigem [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear US iGEM teams,<br>
-We are collecting water quality reports from US local councils or water purification plants for a water assay of your drinking water, specifically testing for perchlorate. <br>
-Many thanks, <br>
-Exeter iGEM
-					</p>
-				</div>
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-			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collab_20"> </div>
+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_18"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
-				<div class="column full_size">
+        			<div class="title"> 18. Collaborative Comic </div>
-					<h3> 20. Water Samples--H2O NO!</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Wroclaw  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Wroclaw, Poland
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igem.upwr [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi fellow iGEM teams!<br>
+We'd like you to join us in promotion of our project by making a collaborative comic with us. For this we need three photos of you (one about you running away, another about you entering a building - preferably your university with its visible name, and the last one in a building, scared). Please, if you're interested - send them till 7th of July. Best photos will be included in the comic! </p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> ULaverne Collab</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of La Verne (USA)</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> ulvigemteam [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello iGEM Teams!
-<br><br>
-If any other teams are looking for microplastics, toxicants, antibiotics, etc. in water, we have wastewater samples and water treatment plant samples that are from Los Angeles County. We are open to discussing how we can collaborate and possibly share our resources. Any teams that are also testing water samples may be able to share data on what they find. Data on microplastics is ideal, but toxicant data is also helpful, specifically organic pollutants (OPs) or endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). If you are interested, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you!
-<br><br>
-Warm regards,
-<br>
-ULV iGEM 2019
-					</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_17"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
-				<div class="column full_size">
+        			<div class="title"> 17. Request to optimize team's device </div>
-					<h3> 19. Worst Gel Electrophoresis Scrapbook</h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> CMUQ  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igem.cmuq [AT] gmail.com, Instagram: cmuq.igem
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>This year our team is working to optimize our last year's device which uses CRISPR to help in the diagnosis of autosomal recessive diseases. If you have any experience in modeling proteins or testing their activity, please contact us! We would also like to help any of the iGEMers in sequencing, FLO cytometry, and protein purification. We look forward to working with other teams and adding to this collaborative platform. </p>
-				<div class="column quarter_size">
+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> UNebraska-Lincoln</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America</p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> unligemteam [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+			</div>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello Again!<br><br>
-Our team is looking to do a fun collaboration. We want as many teams as possible to email us their WORST gel electrophoresis run and a backstory to go with it. Our team will compile the images to make an iGEM scrapbook and add it to our wiki. <br><br>
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-We will have some type of voting to decide a third, second, and first place winner. The medal winners will be presented with a badge that they can place on their wiki and/or presentation. A big thank you to all the teams that choose to participate.<br><br>
-Sincerely,<br>
+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_16"> </div>
-UNL iGEM Team
-					</p>
-				</div>
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-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
-				<div class="column full_size">
+        			<div class="title"> 16. Creating a Wiki Wealth of Knowledge </div>
-					<h3> 18. Proof Reading Help  </h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> US AFRL CarrollHS  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Carroll High School, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> The iGEM Lab Pats - igem [AT] carrollhs.org
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>The wiki is a vital part in telling the judges, public, current, and past iGEM teams about your team. Here's another vital iGEM truth - everyone dreads the wiki freeze and many teams are hesitant to begin their wiki. It can be a struggle, but we're here to help. </p>
+					<p>What are we doing? We're putting together a wiki wealth of knowledge - a comprehensive guide that combines all wiki knowledge from teams past and present, source code that you can use on your wiki, and a YouTube video series where we walk you through all the major things you need to know about everything wiki related.</p>
+					<p>Who are we looking to help us? Everyone. We need first year teams to give us feedback on if our guide covers all of their questions and how it helped them create their wiki. We need teams to write up a couple bullet points describing how they create their wiki. If you use our guide/video series in any way, please let us know so that we can make sure to thank you on our collaborations page!</p>
+					<p>What inspired us? We are a third year team who puts many hours into our wiki every year. Our very first year, we collaborated with a team who answered a lot of our initial questions about how to code our wiki; this helped us immensely and helped to inspire this collaboration.</p>
+					<p>Thank you so much and we can't wait to hear from you about your wikis!</br>US_AFRL_CarrollHS (yes, the Mike the Microbe team - see collaboration request #9)</p>
-				<div class="column quarter_size">
+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Nottingham</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Nottingham  </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> aayvl1 [AT] nottingham.ac.uk </p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi There! All members of our team are fully fluent in English language and English grammar. We would love to offer a proof reading service, where we would proof read your team's wiki to check for any grammar errors. This collaboration request is targeted towards iGEM teams where English is not your first language. To take part in this collaboration, please send your team name and wiki link to the email above. Thank you!
-					</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_15"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 15. Promoters Needed for Bioelectric Sensor </div>
-					<h3> 17. Burn General Knowledge Survey  </h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Tufts  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Tufts University, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Aiden Lewis, aiden.lewis [AT] tufts.edu
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>This year, Tufts iGEM is interested in improving upon the electrical concentration sensor in Shewanella, designed by Cornell 2012. We are interested in enhancing the sensing accuracy and precision, as well as expanding the sensor for use in detecting other chemicals. </p>
+					<p>If you have an idea for a promoter or other regulatory element dependent on presence of a chemical, please don't hesitate to message us about it! Better yet, if you are working on a sensor/detection project yourself, we could try our sensor output with your sensing design!</p>
+ 				</div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> TecCEM</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Mexico State (Mexico City) </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.tec.cem [AT] gmail.com </p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We are organizing a survey in order to capture information about different treatments of burns around the world, the prevention that is held in your country and how are the statistics in it. If you want to help us, please answer our survey that will help us in our project, because we are looking forward to develop a new treatment for burned people, that will reduce the time of hospitalization and help skin regeneration.
-					The following survey link is:<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-FEF-lBXEwtLbkbtkaOUeUX4wNstMK8ytGT7EAjLUCjkhzA/viewform?usp=sf_link"> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-FEF-lBXEwtLbkbtkaOUeUX4wNstMK8ytGT7EAjLUCjkhzA/viewform?usp=sf_link</a>
-					<br><br>
-					Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM
-					</p>
-				</div>
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-			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collab_16"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
-				<div class="column full_size">
+        			<div class="title"> 14. iGEMxSDGs challenge </div>
-					<h3> 16. LatinAmerica iGEM Group </h3>
 				</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Teams:</b> Costa Rica, Tuebingen, and TAS Taipei  </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Costa Rica, Germany, and Taiwan
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemxsdgs [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>The iGEMxSDGs challenge aims to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. The iGEM teams are challenged to map their project to 1 to 4 SDGs and post about it online. A template to keep the usage guidelines of the UN is proposed on our official collaboration subsite: <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Team:Costa_Rica/SDG-Challenge">https://2019.igem.org/Team:Costa_Rica/SDG-Challenge</a>. The iGEMxSDGs challenge is spead on social media by being tagged by a team that has already completed the challenge. Each team will call 3 to 4 other teams to follow them. The mappings will be stored in the gallery of our website. </p>
+					<p>The challenge will launch on June 22nd 2019. </p>
+					<p>A contact for the challenge is: igemxsdgs [AT] gmail.com</p>
+					<p>The contact for the video conference on 14th September hosted by Team Taipei: igemtas [AT] gmail.com</p>
+ 				</div>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> TecCEM</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Campus Mexico State (Mexico City) </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.tec.cem [AT] gmail.com </p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We are organizing a collaboration and troubleshooting group for all the LatinAmerican iGEM teams in order to create a common front in the competition, so please contact us to join the group where you can search for collaborations, inspire teams, or search for help to solve any problem that your team has.
-					<br><br>
-					Facebook: IGEM TEC CEM
-					</p>
-				</div>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_13"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 13. International Stratospheric and Space Legislation </div>
-					<h3> 15. Invasive Species Survey </h3>
 				</div>
-				<div class="column quarter_size">
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Sao Carlos-Brazil </p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> UNebraska-Lincoln</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Federal University of São Carlos - Brazil
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America </p>
+ </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> unligemteam [AT] gmail.com</p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> ufscar.igem2018 [AT] gmail.com
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-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear iGEMers,
-<br><br>
-Our team is working on creating an effective bait for the Emerald Ash Borer Beetle, an invasive species to North America. You can learn more by contacting us via email and we'll be happy to discuss our project!
-<br><br>
-We have created a quick 10 question survey that we would love for all iGEMers to take. If your team members choose to participate, we will present your team with a badge of contribution. We would really appreciate it if you could share a variant of our survey with non-iGEMers as well.
-<br><br>
-Please follow this link to access the survey (iGEMers): <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TRJKVD8">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TRJKVD8</a>
-<br>
-Please share this survey link (non-iGEMers): <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TR3PD3G">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TR3PD3G</a>
-<br><br>
-Best Wishes!
 </p>
-				</div>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello, fellow iGEMmers! This year, our team's project is the construction of a UV radiation-resistant fermenting yeast, that could be used to optimize fermentation processes in alcohol industries and also in the future colonization of other planets, such as Mars.</p>
+					<p>In order to test if our engineered yeast would actually survive in an environment as hostile as Mars, we had planned to perform experiments on a stratospheric probe, since the stratosphere has comparable conditions to the Red Planet when it comes to radiation incidence, pressure, and temperature. In order to find out if and how we could do that, we have decided to conduct an overall review on different countries' and space agencies' legislation on stratospheric and space experimentation, to understand what was expected in cases like this.</p>
+					<p>So far, we have found little to no information on the topic since most legislations only discuss biological experimentation inside a laboratory or planned releases, and this case fits in neither. We also found some legislation in Brazil related to experimentation on a "containment regimen", but no specifications on what this "containment" would be. </p>
+					<p>This is why we need your help! And you can do so by answering some of our questions about this kind of legislation on your country on this form: <a href="https://forms.gle/YvDiCXtohfJcZ5oc7">https://forms.gle/YvDiCXtohfJcZ5oc7</a>.</p>
+					<p>Feel free to leave any of the questions blank if you can't find the information requested, and if you have any doubts please contact us at ufscar.igem2018 [AT] gmail.com. Thank you!</p>
+ 				</div>
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-			<div class="highlight news_item">
-				<div class="column full_size">
-					<h3> 14. Entrepreneurship in iGEM </h3>
-				</div>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_12"> </div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Tec Chihuahua</p>
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.  </p>
+    			<div class="details">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> iGEM Tec Chihuahua 2019
+        			<div class="title"> 12. Analysing the Menstrual Waste Crisis </div>
-                                    igemtecchihuahua [AT] gmail.com</p>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> MITADTBIO Pune </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> MIT-ADT University, Pune
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> iGEM MIT-ADT Pune : igem.mitadtbio.pune [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello fellow iGEM teams.
+We at MIT-ADT University are working on the menace of ever increasing plastic wastes, particularly menstrual waste. As part of our project we would like to assess the level of awareness regarding menstrual waste in countries across the globe. iGEM provides us with an excellent opportunity to do so, facilitating you, our fellow iGEMers to take part in this survey and help us approach our project with a more holistic outlook.</p>
+					<p>You can help us by filling in the survey available at the below link: <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScw5PZeZnLlQxLopdcVJgRFIousLC3GmkjvvceOwzG8ZYq1EQ/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScw5PZeZnLlQxLopdcVJgRFIousLC3GmkjvvceOwzG8ZYq1EQ/viewform?usp=sf_link</a> </p>
+					<p>Do feel free to contact us and share your views, experiences and ideas about the plastic waste crisis we find ourselves in. You can find us at: Igem.mitadtbio.pune [AT] gmail.com or @igemsbsr on Instagram</p>
+					<p>Note: None of the questions are a compulsion and you can skip any of them while your responses will remain anonymous.</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Greetings from iGEM Tec-Chihuahua!
-<br><br>
-We are currently working on an entrepreneurship manual which iGEM teams could rely on for the development of the entrepreneurial section of their projects. We hope that this manual can be used in forthcoming editions of the competition so teams may have a suitable guide which they can draw upon. It is our intention for this guide to include situations that different iGEM teams of all around the word experience while exploring the entrepreneurial field. Thus, we invite you to collaborate with us and with the iGEM community by sending us questions and concerns that have arisen while managing this section of your projects. iGEM Tec-Chihuahua will consult different experts and share with you the best solutions. We will also include your questions and concerns with their respective answers in our manual for future reference.
-<br><br>
-Attached to this message, you will find a Google Form to receive your support on the development of this manual. We include some questions to gather statistics about entrepreneurship in iGEM and a section for you to share with us feedback for this manual.
-<br><br>
-The deadline for filling this Google Form is <b>July 18</b> and iGEM Tec-Chihuahua will send the corresponding answers to each team the first week of August.
-<br><br>
-We wish you the best for your projects.
-<br><br>
-Thank you so much!
-<br><br>
-<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfooEx-ve4OCPklJeNpG8nAMcSc6Uyx-kIwyoFnOpaiFC3u_w/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfooEx-ve4OCPklJeNpG8nAMcSc6Uyx-kIwyoFnOpaiFC3u_w/viewform?usp=sf_link</a>
-<br>
-In case you can’t open the file, please let us know
-</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 11. iGEM Art Exposition </div>
-					<h3> 13. <i>Acinetobacter baylyi</i> ADP1 support</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Nantes </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Université de Nantes, France
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> iGEM Nantes : igemnantes2019 [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Bonjour fellow iGEM teams, </p>
+					<p>We, Nantes iGEM team, are really excited to announce that we will be holding an iGEM art exposition here in Nantes at the end of August! We would love to be able to present works of art that express Synthetic Biology through any creative means you are inspired by. To help the flow of creative juices we have come up with three themes that might spark more interest for you:
+<ul><li>The position of Humans in Synthetic Biology</li>
+<li>The fusion of 2 different worlds (Engineering and Biology)</li>
+<li>The impact of Synthetic Biology on the world.</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+					<p>To participate please contact us by email or through our social media (@IGEMNantes) and we will give you more specific details concerning our adress, exact dates etc. You can then send in your artwork digitally (photography, digital artwork) or by mail (painting, sculpture, etc...) by August 9th. </p>
+					<p>Your team is completely welcome to be present during the art exposition :)</p>
+					<p>
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> NAWI Graz</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> TU and KFU Graz, Austria </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> office [AT] igem-graz [DOT] at</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello iGEMers
-<br>
-<br>
-As we are investigating a possibility to produce a palm seed oil analog with E. coli, we are looking for a specific <i>Acinetobacter</i> strain, in detail <i>Acinetobacter baylyi</i> ADP1. If someone could send us the strain or a specific cPCR product, you would have an overall impact on our project and therefore a nice collaboration.
-<br><br>
-If you need more details, please send us an email to office [AT] igem-graz.at
-<br><br>
-Sincerely,<br>
-the iGEM Team NAWI_Graz
-</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 10. Minterlab</div>
-					<h3> 12. Think of the PLOSibilities Blog Postings</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> SoundBio </p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> SoundBio Lab, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Sophie Liu - igem [AT] sound.bio
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hi 2019 iGEM teams! As you may know iGEM 2019 does not have an Interlab. So this year we wanted to invite teams from any country to participate in Minterlab (Mini Interlab)! </p>
+					<p>What is Minterlab? Minterlab takes the concept of having scientists around the world working on one experiment and enables scientific experimentation to elementary and middle schoolers through an Interlab-like opportunity.</p>
+					<p>How does it work? Teams around the world will host camp sessions that are 5 days long. Each day will have lessons will be 1-2 hours. However when and where a camp session is held can be chosen by the hosting team. One Minterlab session should cover a curriculum that we will prepare together (but feel free to put your own spin on it!) as well as the main Minterlab experiment which we can develop together. At the end of the summer, we will compile all the “data” accumulated from the Minterlab sessions across the world and compile it on one website for everyone to see!</p>
+					<p>If you are interested in further details or wish to participate in Minterlab, please email igem [AT] sound.bio by *June 23rd 2019 11:59 PM PST*</p>
+					<p>
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Dalhousie </p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> dalhousieigem2019 [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi iGEM teams!
-<br><br>
-Our team is passionate about making scientific research accessible to as many people as possible. In 2017, we created a blog called Think of the PLOSibilities which posts weekly summaries of open access journals, such as Public Library of Science (PLOS), without heavy scientific jargon. We would love to feature a diverse range of scientific subjects and have representation from scientific communities around the world! If your team is interested in contributing to the blog and submitting your own summary, you can find the steps to submit a summary here:  <a href="https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/how-to-submit-a-summary"> https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/how-to-submit-a-summary</a> and you can find previous postings here: <a href="https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/blog/">https://plosibilities.wordpress.com/blog/</a>. We look forward to reading your submissions!
-<br><br>
-Thank you and best of luck with the rest of the season!
-<br><br>
-- Dalhousie iGEM
-</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_9"> </div>
-			<div class="highlight news_item">
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 9. Mike the Microbe</div>
-					<h3> 11. Instagram Challenge For July</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> US AFRL CarrollHS</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Carroll High School, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> The iGEM Lab Pats - igem [AT] carrollhs.org
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Each year, we send out our team mascot, Mike the Microbe, as a "Flat Stanley" and ask other teams to take pictures with him and post them on social media. We would like to do that again this year, along with sending our newest mascot, Chia the Chitinase.
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Stony Brook </p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Stony Brook University, New York, USA </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Manvi Shah, igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hello iGEM Teams!
-<br><br>
-This year, Stony Brook iGEM aims for success beyond just the lab environment. To engage our community and teach them about Synthetic Biology in a more impactful manner, we created an Instagram Challenge for iGEM teams! For the entire month of July, there is a set of daily prompts to encourage teams to share more about their projects and Synthetic Biology! If you are interested in participating or learning more, visit the #iGEMPhotoADay Challenge page that we have created with all of the prompts at <a href="https://tinyurl.com/iGEM-Instagram-Challenge">https://tinyurl.com/iGEM-Instagram-Challenge</a> and follow us on Instagram @igem.stonybrook!
-<br><br>
-We are also interested in collaborating in regards to our project itself! Our team is working with the cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 (UTEX 2434) and is working on sucrose production via Gibson Assembly and directed evolution. If any other teams are working with cyanobacteria or directed evolution, we would love to collaborate!
-<br><br>
-Additionally, thanks to Opentrons, we have access to our own OT-2 Robot and can collaborate on automatic protocols as well!
-<br><br>
-We wish you luck on your project and can’t wait to see you at the Jamboree!
-<br>
-Best wishes,
-<br>
-Stony Brook iGEM
-</p>
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+			<div class="clear extra_space" id="collaboration_8"> </div>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 8. iGEM Instagram Challenge</div>
-					<h3> 10. Plate Reader for Inter-Lab</h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Stony Brook</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York, USA
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Kiara Kolaczyk - igem.sbu [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello fellow iGEM teams!
+<br>You are invited to take participate in our one week Instagram Challenge starting on Sunday, June 16th! The goal is to promote unity between the iGEM teams, and increase iGEM teams’ internet footprint through social media postings! We have created a theme for each day for one week:</p>
+<p><ul><li>Sunday: Introduce your Project #iGEMproject2019</li>
+<li>Monday: Meme Monday #mememonday</li>
+<li>Tuesday: Agarart #iGEMagarart</li>
+<li>Wednesday: Lab bonding, photo of your team hanging out outside of the lab #iGEMTeam</li>
+<li>Thursday: Fail day #labfails</li>
+<li>Friday: Vine/Youtube video remake done your way #makeittheiGEMway</li>
+<li>Saturday: Shenanigans #iGEMShenanigans</li>
+</ul></p>
+<p>The Instagram challenge will take place from June 16th through June 22nd. Please let us know if your team will be participating so we can feature your posts on our pages: our team’s Instagram, @igem.stonybrook, Twitter, @IGEMSBU, and our Facebook page, @iGEM at Stony Brook.
+<br><br>Thank you and we look forward to seeing what posts your teams come up with!
+<br>Stony Brook 2019 iGEM Team
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> CUNY Kingsborough </p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York, USA </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Jessica Zhao; zhaojay47 [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
-				<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi there fellow iGEMers!
-<br><br>
-To complete the interlab study, we need to borrow a plate reader.  (Ours broke)
-<br><br>
-Many Thanks!<br>
-Jessica</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 7. Virtual Protocol Donation Box</div>
-					<h3> 9. League of Superheroes </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> uOttawa</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> University of Ottawa, Canada
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Victoria Feng - uoigem [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Hello fellow iGEM teams!
+This year, our team is dedicated to creating a protocol handbook in addition to our main project. The purpose is to make synthetic biology techniques easier and more accessible for future endeavors and iGEM teams. We believe that the wealth of knowledge and unique techniques from teams across the globe will make lab life easier, fun and interesting. Thus, the virtual donation box is made so that protocols from different iGEM teams are free to view and try. It is highly appreciated if your team could contribute by uploading a few protocols to our virtual donation box.
+<br><br>
+Please indicate the type of protocol, your team name and country in the title for the files.
+Example: E.coli Inoculation - uOttawa iGEM (Canada)
+<br><br>Invite to the donation box: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AlC9Wk9pEy1uqpixq8MmoctnYnYWDhBp">https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AlC9Wk9pEy1uqpixq8MmoctnYnYWDhBp</a>
+<br><br>If your team is having trouble sharing the protocol on the weblink, feel free to send us an email and we will place it in for you.
+<br>Thank you and hope to see you all at the Giant Jamboree.
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> RHIT</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Emilie Deibel - deibelet [AT] rose-hulman.edu</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Every iGEM project is changing the world. We want to recognize the SUPER abilities of all
-the iGEM teams by creating a league of superheroes made up of superheroes designed by
-each team based on their project. If your team is interested, please sign up by July 30th here
-(<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbQ60mINUxxWJgLJhW-ZLJBKEJU3KaJJgd1bfjR
-PEuzzwcvg/viewform?usp=sf_link">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbQ60mINUxxWJgLJhW-ZLJBKEJU3KaJJgd1bfjR
-PEuzzwcvg/viewform?usp=sf_link</a>) . All superheroes will be placed on a trading card, and each
-team will receive trading cards from all the teams that participated. What we need from you:
-Name of Team, Name of Superhero, Contact Info, “Home Base” for your superhero, the
-Superhero’s Mission, and any Special Powers that your Superhero has. If you have any
-questions or need help designing your superhero, feel free to email us.</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 6. iGEM Aptamers Hub initiative</div>
-					<h3> 8. Sharing FACS beads for Interlab </h3>
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+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> Athens</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Athens, Greece
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> igemaptamers [AT] gmail.com
+</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>We would like to gather all aptamers-related iGEM 2019 Teams, in order to set up the iGEM Aptamers Hub. The iGEM Aptamers Hub shall serve as a shared resource for all iGEM teams that are doing a project using aptamers. This hub will contain information on aptamers, their uses, wet and dry lab protocols/tools, past iGEM aptamer projects, organised aptamer-related parts from the registry, etc. We hope that this will allow more teams to integrate the use of aptamers in their projects and find the information or expertise they might be lacking.
+<br><br>
+If your team is focusing or just using aptamers this year and you would like to contribute to the iGEM Aptamers Hub, please contact us at igemaptamers [AT] gmail.com.
+</p>
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+ 				</div>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> Ruia-Mumbai</p>
+				<div class="clear"></div>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, Mumbai, India </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Anjali Vaidya, catechewingcoli [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Dear fellow iGEMers,<br>
-The Interlab study for this year's competition has an EXTRA credit component if teams are able to perform FACS analysis alongside the 96-well plate readings. The teams who perform the FACS will get a special mention in the resulting publication.
-<br><br>
-Although we have access to a FACS machine, we don't have the specific calibration beads that iGEM requires us to use.
-<br><br>
-Would any team be interested in splitting the cost of the Rainbow calibration beads (type RCP-30-5A or URCP-38-2K) with us? You only need a few drops to run the calibration so there should be more than enough left from the 5ml pack. Alternatively, if you have the beads and are willing to ship a small aliquot to us, we would be happy to officially list you as a collaborator for this part of the work.
-<br><br>
-Please let us know if your team is interested in such a collaboration for the FACS module of the Interlab study. Good luck to all team and we look forward to seeing you at the Jamboree!
-<br><br>
-Cheers,<br>
-Team Ruia-Mumbai</p>
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+			<div class="highlight post_item">
+    			<div class="details">
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+        			<div class="title"> 5. Demographic's and Inclusivity Survey 2019</div>
-					<h3> 7. Survey To Fight Water Pollution</h3>
 				</div>
-				<div class="column quarter_size">
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b> UAlberta</p>
-					<p><b>Team:</b> IIT Kanpur
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> The University of Alberta, Canada
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Talia Dixon uabigem [AT] gmail.com
 </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> IIT Kanpur
+        		</div>
-<br>Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
-<br>India - 208016</p>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Rishabh Jain,
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>iGEM is an organization that is driven by young people's idealism. Because of this, iGEM provides the perfect atmosphere to drive progress within STEM both technically and socially. Creating an inclusive space starts by being aware of the shortcomings of the organization, and from there moving to address any issues that prevent the organization from achieving diversity.
-teamigemiitk2k18 [AT] gmail.com</p>
-				</div>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>To the iGEM Family out there,
 <br><br>
-We at IIT Kanpur, India, are trying to engineer a synthetic biology system to be able to profitably degrade Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate into Lauryl Alcohol. To be able to better contribute towards the environment through our project and achieve the dream of clean water bodies, we need your help.
+The UAlberta iGEM team is interested in investigating the age, sex, gender, and race demographics of iGEM teams, to examine if there are any inclusion disparities in iGEM teams, and learn more about iGEMers experiences so that any issues can be remedied.
-<br>We aim to collaborate with you, through exchange of knowledge which can be done easily by you filling out the following survey : <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/YwyxsR7y7ufGWCl13">https://goo.gl/forms/YwyxsR7y7ufGWCl13</a>
 <br><br>
-We wish you success in your venture and hope this collaboration can become successful.
+How you and your team can help us is by completing this survey  <a href="https://forms.gle/uTTwJ9RV5ciN8f5S9">https://forms.gle/uTTwJ9RV5ciN8f5S9</a>, and emailing us to share your thoughts about inclusivity in iGEM.
 <br><br>
-With love<br>
+Note: You can skip any questions on the survey that you would like, and will remain anonymous. If you or your team would like to fill out the survey in another language please email us as we have translated the survey into a verity of languages to make it as accessible as possible!
-Team IIT Kanpur</p>
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+        			<div class="title"> 4. What is your dream synthetic biology laboratory?</div>
-					<h3> 6. Engineered Probiotics Around the World</h3>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b> OUC-China</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Ocean University of China
+<br>Shinan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China
+ </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Jenny Bao - oucigem AT 163 DOT com</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b>  <br>Greetings fellow iGEM Teams!<br>
+This year our team's lab address was relocated----we got a brand new lab !<br>
+Our team members hope to redesign our lab. So we hope to get help from your team.<br><br>
+You can help us in this way: <br>
+.Draw a plan of your lab and give us some photographs of your lab. <br>
+.Briefly introduce the main laboratory apparatus in the laboratory. <br>
+.We are willing to know what experiment your lab can do. (The more detailed the better)<br>
+.Show a picture of your dream synthetic biology lab in your email and add a detailed description.<br>
+If we successfully receive your email, we will promptly reply it and appreciate your help in our team's wiki.
+Also, we will select the best design we think and show it in our wiki.<br>
+PS: At the jamboree, we will bring a mysterious gift from China to your team as a ‘thank you’.
+</p>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Unesp Brazil</p>
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-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Unesp, Brazil </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> igem.unesp.aqa [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>We're interested in learning about the legal and ethical issues of engineered probiotics in different parts of the world, so we're looking for teams from different countries to help us finding information about clinic trials, startups, researches and legal issues regarding genetically modified probiotics in their country. If you are interested, please contact us!<br>
-Also, if your team is also working with engineered probiotics, contact us too! </p>
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+        			<div class="title">3. The Colony-Picture Project </div>
+			</div>
+          		<div class="column quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Team:</b>Marburg</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Philipps University of Marburg ; Marburg, Germany </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br> Cedric Brinkmann - syntex.marburg [AT] gmail.com</p>
+        		</div>
+         		<div class="column three_quarter_size">
+					<p><b>Description:</b> <br>
+					Greetings fellow iGEM Teams! </p>
+<p>Have you ever imagined having less work in the laboratory? Being able
+to outsource it somehow, to focus on other (important) tasks? Well, we
+did! In recent years automated lab processes have improved. </p>
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+<p>Our contribution to the iGEM-Opentrons-Community will be a colony
-					<h3> 5. A Better Way to Build </h3>
+picking bot, more precisely, modules and scripts, that allow others
-				</div>
+iGEM Teams to turn their own OT-2 into a colony picking robot.</p>
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+<p>To achieve this goal we need the help of other iGEM Teams. We need
+to train the artificial intelligence with data, so that it is able to
-					<p><b>Team:</b> William and Mary</p>
+recognise the colonies by itself. This is where we need your help: As
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> William & Mary, United States </p>
+most iGEM Teams are working with E. Coli, it would be nice if you
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Ethan Jones email: igem [AT] wm.edu</p>
+could provide us with pictures of your agar plates with colonies! So
+that we are able to compile a large database of pictures to train the
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+AI.</p>
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+<p>We will publish every script, code and module we create and we also
-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
+give away some prizes! The first ten teams that send us 100 pictures
-					<p>Hey teams! Assembling genetic circuits takes time, and time is precious with Giant Jamboree coming up fast in October. To help future teams build circuits faster, part of our work this year is converting some of the most used and greatest basic parts into a form compatible with a new faster hybrid assembly method. We want your best 2019 part to be a part of this library for future teams to use! Please email us at igem [AT] wm.edu if you are interested in having your part in our library. We are happy to answer any of your questions and look forward to hearing from you!
+will get some small surprise and the team which sends us the most
-<br><br>
+pictures until 31st of July will get a bigger surprise!</p>
-Much love,  <br>
+<p>All further informations for the collaboration, like registration form
+and instructions, can be found at <a href="http://www.vinca.de/igem">www.vinca.de/igem</a>.</p>
- William & Mary </p>
+<p>Thank you for participating and helping us out! </p>
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+<p>Greetings from Marburg,<br>
+your SYNTEX Team
+</p>
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-					<h3> 4. Fighting Stigma Against Synthetic Biology! </h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Harvard</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Harvard University, United States </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Jessica DeVilla, Aaron Hodges, Fay Huo, Nathan Sharp, Mark Meneses, and Tajrean Yeana.<br> Email: higemteam2019 [AT] gmail.com</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi everyone,
-<br><br>
-Calling all iGEM teams! This year, Team Harvard wants to work with you all to end the stigma against synthetic biology. We’ve noticed that human contact with bacteria is frequently associated with negative consequences and as such, it is regarded as dangerous by the general public. As iGEM teams, we understand that genetically engineering bacteria is a largely untapped resource for positive change. Help us show the world the true potential of harnessing bacteria for use in therapeutics, diagnostics, the environment and more!
-<br><br>
-We plan to release a series of newsletters and articles to showcase all of the cool things teams are doing with bacteria for their projects. We’d love to feature your work in our series! If you’d like to participate, please email a <b>description of your project</b> and if possible, <b>a photo</b> to go along with it to <b>higemteam2019 [AT] gmail.com</b>. The more teams that we hear back from the better! Just a couple minutes of your time could make a big difference in our community.
-<br><br>
-We look forward to hearing from you and wish you all good luck with your projects!
-<br><br>
-Warm regards,
-<br>
-The 2019 Harvard iGEM Team</p>
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+        			<div class="title">2. Building an International iGEM Team Well </div>
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+					<p><b>Team:</b>Lambert iGEM</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Atlanta, Georgia, USA </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br>  Michelle Wu, igem.lamb [AT] gmail.com</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b> <br>
+					This year, Lambert iGEM is partnering with the Thirst Project, the largest youth-led water organization in the world, to build an international iGEM well for a community in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Our goal is to raise $12,000 to change the lives of these villagers through the combined effort of international iGEM teams! We would love your help raising donations, and we will be sure to put your team's name on the iGEM well for any amount contributed. Collaborate with us while making a difference. Thank you so much! Let's end the water crisis together!
+					</p>
+					<p>Here is the link to our fundraising page! <a href="https://my.thirstproject.org/team/216038">https://my.thirstproject.org/team/216038</a></p>
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-					<h3> 3. Dear Diary </h3>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> Linkoping Sweden</p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Linköping University, Sweden </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Marianne Gavelius, Alexandra Sandéhn and Johanna Granqvist. Mail: igem.linkoping [AT] gmail.com </p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-					<p>Hi everyone!<br><br>
-We from team Linköping (Sweden) have a new idea for a collaboration. We would love it if your team would send us a letter (or an email) with a short text about what you are doing, fun stuff that is happening in and outside of the lab and/or quotes. If you want to it would be fun if you include some photos as well. The goal is to create a book/document from all of the stories that will be published on our facebook page, and home page. If you want to take part, please send your contribution to us before August 1st. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask! <br><br>
-Send the letter to: <br>
-LiU iGEM<br>
-Kårallen, Linköpings Universitet <br>
-83 Linköping, Sweden.<br><br>
-If you would rather email us: igem.linkoping [AT] gmail.com
-<br><br>
-Much love, <br>
-LiU iGEM 2019<br>
-<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LiuIgem/">https://www.facebook.com/LiuIgem/ </a>
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-					<p><b>Team:</b> NYU Abu Dhabi </p>
-					<p><b>Team Location:</b> New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) </p>
-					<p><b>Contact Information:</b> Laura Karpauskaite and Doovaraha Maheswarasarma, nyuad.igem [AT] nyu.edu</p>
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-					<p><b>Description:</b> </p>
-						<p>Dear iGEM Community,
+			<div class="highlight post_item">
-<br><br>
+    			<div class="details">
-This is a collaboration request to ALL iGEM teams! Join us in showcasing the wonderment of iGEM and synthetic biology by creating a science sketch of your team’s project or any major techniques/principles that your project is using.
+        			<div class="title">1. Postcard project </div>
-Through the series of 1-3-minute sketches, we hope to promote public awareness of the iGEM competition as well as to show how synthetic biology can be utilized to solve problems facing mankind in an innovative manner!
-<br><br>
-The aim of the science sketches is to make a <b>collaborative educational playlist</b> with videos from teams all over the world, about <b>their projects and/or the scientific principle behind their project</b>. This playlist will be made public, so that any iGEM team can use it in their outreach activities, thus enabling all teams to spread the knowledge of synthetic biology to their communities.
-<br><br>
-It is preferable that we receive the video of the science sketches before the <b>20th of September, 2019</b>. This would give us enough time to make the playlist and also show it in outreach events. Please make sure to add your team's name and your institution's name at the end or beginning of the video.
-Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! We have also created a detailed description of <a href="https://2019.igem.org/Team:NYU_Abu_Dhabi/Sketch_Guide">how to make a science sketch</a>. Hope this helps!
-<br><br>
-Curious about what science sketches are like? Check out the science sketch that our team has created for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvLuWYRRZs&feature=youtu.be">iGEM</a>! Here are two other examples, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5U0xBHchHw">RPA</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BelG3wllPao&feature=youtu.be">LAMP</a>, for those considering making one for scientific principles/techniques.
-<br><br>
-Join us and have a lot of fun! Be creative!<br>
-We look forward to hearing from you!
- <br><br>
-Warm regards,<br>
-iGEM NYU Abu Dhabi 2019
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+					<p><b>Team:</b>iGEM Duesseldorf</p>
+					<p><b>Team Location:</b> Duesseldorf, Germany </p>
+       				<p><b>Contact Information:</b><br>  igem[at]hhu.de</p>
+        		</div>
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+					<p><b>Description:</b> <br>
+					Hello iGEM Teams,<br>
+					As we all know, iGEM is not only about our projects, but also about engaging the public with synthetic biology. In order to do so, the  previous iGEM teams of the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf created a project to promote synthetic biology in public by using self-designed postcards. Each year the amount of participating iGEM teams has grown, with a big pool of beautiful and funny postcards as a result. We would like to continue this community effort one more time and ask YOU to be a part of this collaboration.<br><br>
+How does it work? Every participating team designs a postcard which shows an image related to synthetic biology (or your topic) on the front and a small informational text on the back. Afterwards each team sends a package with their postcards to us, they are exchanged with the postcards from other teams, and the package is sent back. In the end,
+every participating iGEM-team is going to have collected postcards from all over the world. The received postcards can then be shared with people in the neighborhood, during public events, at the Giant Jamboree etc.If you want to check out the previously designed postcards for inspiration, visit the wiki of Duesseldorf 2016, the wiki of Duesseldorf-Cologne 2017 or the wiki of Dueseldorf 2018. <br><br>
+How to design your postcards:
+Standard postcard format (A6; 14,8cm x 10,5cm) Image related to your project or synthetic biology on the front
+Small informational text on the back If you are interested in joining us, please let us know until the 15th of June, so we can figure out how many postcards each team should print
+and send. Please don't forget to include your address! Important: This is not the deadline for sending and designing the postcard!
+<br><br>We’re looking forward to hearing from you! <br>
+Much love,<br>
+iGEM Team Duesseldorf 2019
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-						<p><b>Team Location:</b> Heinrich-Heine University, Germany </p>
-						<p><b>Contact Information:</b>  igem[AT]hhu.de  </p>
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-						<p><b>Description:</b></p>
-						<p>Hey iGEM Teams,As we all know iGEM is not only about experiments and labwork but also about bringing the topic “synthetic biology” closer to the public. In order to do so the previous iGEM teams of the Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf created a project to promote synthetic biology in public using self-designed postcards. Each year a bunch of iGEM teams decided to join which is why the campaign was a huge success with a lot of beautiful and funny postcards as a result.</p>
-						<p>How does it work? Every participating team designs a postcard which shows an image related to synthetic biology (or your topic) on the front and a small informational text on the back. Afterwards each team’s postcards are exchanged with other iGEM-teams so that every team can collect postcards from all over the world. The received postcards can then be shared with people in the neighborhood, during public events etc.</p>
-						<p> If you want to check out the last year’s campaigns for inspiration, visit the wiki of <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Duesseldorf/Outreach#Postcards">Duesseldorf 2016</a>  or the wiki  of <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Cologne-Duesseldorf/Engagement">Duesseldorf-Cologne 2017</a> </p>
-						<p>How to design your postcards:<br> Image related to your project or (synthetic) biology in general on the front <br>Small informational text on the back <br> Standard postcard format (A6; 14,8cm x 10,5cm)</p>
-						<p>If you are interested in joining us please let us know until the 15th of June, so we can figure out how many postcards each team should print and send. Please don't forget to include your address! Important: This is not the deadline for sending and designing the postcard! <br><br> We’re looking forward to hearing from you! <br><br> Much love,<br>iGEM Team Duesseldorf 2019</p>
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