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Collaborations

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

This year, the BU iGEM team collaborated with the WPI iGEM team.

The collaboration became possible at the NEGEM meet up in June, where six New England iGEM teams presented their project ideas to the rest. During one of our small group discussions, a team member from WPI talked about how lucky we, the BU team were to get access to a flow cytometer for single cell fluorescence measurement. Right then, the two teams decided to collaborate. We would test some of there constructs on our Fortessa and they would view cells expressing our devices under their confocal microscope. The results our shown below.

Inter Lab Study Collaboration with Tufts iGEM and MIT iGEM teams

In August, researchers from the Tufts iGEM team contacted us and described that they had been having trouble transforming some parts, which were required for the Inter Lab Study, into cells. The parts that they needed were -

BBa_I20260
BBa_E0240

We located those parts and members from the Tufts team picked them up and successfully measured them for the study.

During the 3rd NEGEM Meetup in October, team MIT also expressed interest in taking part in the Inter Lab Study. We promptly streaked all required constructs on agar plates for them, which they could then use to make cultures and test on their Flow Cytometer.

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+   <th scope="col"> This year, the BU iGEM team collaborated with the WPI iGEM team.
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+The collaboration became possible at the NEGEM meet up in June, where six New England iGEM teams presented their project ideas to the rest. During one of our small group discussions, a team member from WPI talked about how lucky we, the BU team were to get access to a flow cytometer for single cell fluorescence measurement. Right then, the two teams decided to collaborate. We would test some of there constructs on our Fortessa and they would view cells expressing our devices under their confocal microscope. The results our shown below.
-   <th scope="col">The BU iGEM team organized the NEGEM meet ups on June 20th, August 6th and October 4th, which was attended by iGEM teams from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Harvard, MIT, Wellesley College, Rutgers and Tufts. This was done in part to stimulate discussions about Synthetic Biology in a pressure-free environment. The second meet up onwards, everyone was also asked to fill feedback sheets for every team's presentation. Students were also split up into smaller groups for more one-to-one feedback and discussion regarding troubleshooting tips, the role of bio-design automation and software tools in the SynBio community. This way all teams could better learn from each other's mistakes and issues, provide pointed feedback and ultimately, learn to engage with people on topics of academic significance.
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+<h2> Inter Lab Study Collaboration with Tufts iGEM and MIT iGEM teams</h2>
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-When the WPI team presented their work, they mentioned how they didn’t have access to a flow cytometer for cell-to-cell measurement. We then approached them and asked whether they would let us perform some measurements for them using our flow cytometer. They agreed to in turn take pictures of cells expressing some of our constructs using their confocal microscopes.<br>
+In August, researchers from the Tufts iGEM team contacted us and described that they had been having trouble transforming some parts, which were required for the Inter Lab Study, into cells. The parts that they needed were -
+<ul><li> BBa_I20260
+<li>BBa_E0240
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+We located those parts and members from the Tufts team picked them up and successfully measured them for the study.
+<br><br>
+During the 3rd NEGEM Meetup in October, team MIT also expressed interest in taking part in the Inter Lab Study. We promptly streaked all required constructs on agar plates for them, which they could then use to make cultures and test on their Flow Cytometer.
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