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| + | <p>We attended the University of Maryland meet up in June. We had been working with the idea of a cheap DIY PCR machine because we had discovered one of the main barriers to colleges, community labs, and high schools getting into biotechnology was the price of the equipment. Upon going to the meeting, we talked to the William and Mary team and discovered they had to get up ridiculously early to use a PCR machine in an advisor’s lab because they didn’t have their own machine. Then and there, we agreed to sell our low cost thermocycler that hadn’t even been fully designed yet to William and Mary’s iGEM team. At the conference, we also spoke with the University of Maryland about thermocyclers because they were also in the process of building a thermocycler. We discussed and, after the conference, continued a dialogue about the best, lowest cost options for design, Peltier chips, and code for the Arduino. See the results of the collaboration on the Project Overview page.</p> | ||
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| + | <p>Another point of collaboration was our meetup with UNC’s iGEM team. This is the first year UNC will be going to the Jamboree, and we wanted to discuss our ideas and see if there was any way Duke iGEM could offer support or collaboration with their project. Our projects were in different areas, but we enjoyed learning about their projects and answering questions about the structure of the Jamboree to the best of our ability. </p> | ||
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Sharing and collaboration are core values of iGEM. We encourage you to reach out and work with other teams on difficult problems that you can more easily solve together. | Sharing and collaboration are core values of iGEM. We encourage you to reach out and work with other teams on difficult problems that you can more easily solve together. | ||
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<li> Help build and test another team's hardware project</li> | <li> Help build and test another team's hardware project</li> | ||
<li> Mentor a high-school team</li> | <li> Mentor a high-school team</li> | ||
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Revision as of 20:04, 18 September 2015
Collaborations
PCR Machine Inspiration and Design
We attended the University of Maryland meet up in June. We had been working with the idea of a cheap DIY PCR machine because we had discovered one of the main barriers to colleges, community labs, and high schools getting into biotechnology was the price of the equipment. Upon going to the meeting, we talked to the William and Mary team and discovered they had to get up ridiculously early to use a PCR machine in an advisor’s lab because they didn’t have their own machine. Then and there, we agreed to sell our low cost thermocycler that hadn’t even been fully designed yet to William and Mary’s iGEM team. At the conference, we also spoke with the University of Maryland about thermocyclers because they were also in the process of building a thermocycler. We discussed and, after the conference, continued a dialogue about the best, lowest cost options for design, Peltier chips, and code for the Arduino. See the results of the collaboration on the Project Overview page.
Another point of collaboration was our meetup with UNC’s iGEM team. This is the first year UNC will be going to the Jamboree, and we wanted to discuss our ideas and see if there was any way Duke iGEM could offer support or collaboration with their project. Our projects were in different areas, but we enjoyed learning about their projects and answering questions about the structure of the Jamboree to the best of our ability.