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<p>Our first contacts with other teams started together with 2014 Aalto-Helsinki team, as university students from Stockholm building a new iGEM team from scratch contacted Aalto-Helsinki. The 2014 and 2015 team participated together in the skype session with Stockholm, where we first exchanged ideas and the 2014 team gave advice in starting a completely new team. We kept close contacts with the Stockholm iGEM team, often having skype sessions for updates on both teams progress and for sharing experiences and ideas.</p>
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<p>We were eager to meet the Stockholm team already before the Giant Jamboree, and were strongly supportive of expanding the planned Swedish iGEM meetup to a Nordic iGEM Conference, which was indeed realized in Uppsala in the end of July. On our way to the conference, we visited the Stockholm team lab at the AlbaNova University Center. Our wonderful guide Sarah from the Stockholm team also kindly gave us a tour around the Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.</p>
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<p>The Nordic iGEM Conference (NiC) was held in Uppsala 24-26.7 Hosted by Uppsala and Stockholm iGEM teams, it was a really superb event, strengthening the Nordic iGEM community. It was really cool to meet and get to know seven other iGEM teams from across the Nordic region and hear about their projects. The NiC also gave us a great chance to practice for the Giant Jamboree, as we held a 12-minute presentation on our project, followed by questions from the audience and the jury, formed by members from each participating team. The Uppsala and Stockholm teams had also prepared interesting workshops for the event, as well as great evening events, including a dinner and a welcoming BBQ, where our team also got to organize a get-to-know-each-other activity for participants.</p>
  
 
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<p>While Stockholm was perhaps the team closest to us not only geographically, we also had contacts to many other iGEM teams. </p>
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<p>In the beginning of the summer, we skyped with team Pasteur from Paris, exchanging thoughts on fundraising and talking about our projects ideas, among other things. </p>
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<p>Early on but with our idea picked, we also contacted Scottish teams from Dundee and Edinburgh, presenting our projects to each other. We especially discussed the approaches and issues our teams had in modeling.</p>
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<p>The HS Slovenia team had a biofuel project just like us, and we wrote each other quite a bit, as well as had a skype session to discuss our projects and whether we could find ways to help each other. Indeed, this cooperation resulted in us sending one of our new BioBricks to them for validation.</p>
  
 
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<p>Questionnaires of different sorts are a part of many iGEM teams projects, ourselves included. We recognise the difficulties teams sometimes face in getting answers to their surveys, and wanted to do our part in solving this problem by answering as many iGEM questionnaires as possible. We answered the following teams questionnaires:</p>
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Revision as of 18:44, 29 August 2015

Collaboration

Stockholm

Our first contacts with other teams started together with 2014 Aalto-Helsinki team, as university students from Stockholm building a new iGEM team from scratch contacted Aalto-Helsinki. The 2014 and 2015 team participated together in the skype session with Stockholm, where we first exchanged ideas and the 2014 team gave advice in starting a completely new team. We kept close contacts with the Stockholm iGEM team, often having skype sessions for updates on both teams progress and for sharing experiences and ideas.

We were eager to meet the Stockholm team already before the Giant Jamboree, and were strongly supportive of expanding the planned Swedish iGEM meetup to a Nordic iGEM Conference, which was indeed realized in Uppsala in the end of July. On our way to the conference, we visited the Stockholm team lab at the AlbaNova University Center. Our wonderful guide Sarah from the Stockholm team also kindly gave us a tour around the Royal Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.

Nordic iGEM Conference

The Nordic iGEM Conference (NiC) was held in Uppsala 24-26.7 Hosted by Uppsala and Stockholm iGEM teams, it was a really superb event, strengthening the Nordic iGEM community. It was really cool to meet and get to know seven other iGEM teams from across the Nordic region and hear about their projects. The NiC also gave us a great chance to practice for the Giant Jamboree, as we held a 12-minute presentation on our project, followed by questions from the audience and the jury, formed by members from each participating team. The Uppsala and Stockholm teams had also prepared interesting workshops for the event, as well as great evening events, including a dinner and a welcoming BBQ, where our team also got to organize a get-to-know-each-other activity for participants.

Cooperation with other teams

While Stockholm was perhaps the team closest to us not only geographically, we also had contacts to many other iGEM teams.

In the beginning of the summer, we skyped with team Pasteur from Paris, exchanging thoughts on fundraising and talking about our projects ideas, among other things.

Early on but with our idea picked, we also contacted Scottish teams from Dundee and Edinburgh, presenting our projects to each other. We especially discussed the approaches and issues our teams had in modeling.

The HS Slovenia team had a biofuel project just like us, and we wrote each other quite a bit, as well as had a skype session to discuss our projects and whether we could find ways to help each other. Indeed, this cooperation resulted in us sending one of our new BioBricks to them for validation.

Questionnaires

Questionnaires of different sorts are a part of many iGEM teams projects, ourselves included. We recognise the difficulties teams sometimes face in getting answers to their surveys, and wanted to do our part in solving this problem by answering as many iGEM questionnaires as possible. We answered the following teams questionnaires:

  • Tec-Monterrey

  • Stockholm

  • Aachen

  • Technion

  • UI Indonesia

  • Uppsala

  • Cork

  • IIT Kharagpur

  • Kent