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<p>Collaboration between iGEM teams is one of the most important aspect of the competition. Instead of competition where teams are struggling to out perform each other, teams are encouraged to work together for the betterment of synthetic biology as a whole. The Boston University team has taken this ideal to heart and has worked in several different ways to collaborate with other teams.</p>
 
<p>Collaboration between iGEM teams is one of the most important aspect of the competition. Instead of competition where teams are struggling to out perform each other, teams are encouraged to work together for the betterment of synthetic biology as a whole. The Boston University team has taken this ideal to heart and has worked in several different ways to collaborate with other teams.</p>
 
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<p>One of the first efforts of collaboration by the 2015 Boston University team was to host NEGEM (New England iGEM Meetup). At this event, all iGEM teams in the surrounding region were encouraged to attend and share their projects as well as give useful insight and suggestions to other teams. This also gave team members to meet members from other teams and form relationships for future collaboration. The event was a big success! Eight iGEM teams attended, shared, and bonded. Below are some of the pictures from the event.</p>
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<p>An important aspect of synthetic biology is the collaboration and exchange of ideas and techniques. The interchange ideas between colleagues can lead to important advancements and progress in the field. This summer we hosted two conferences between all the teams in the New England area to promote collaboration between the teams and feedback on each other's’ projects and presentations to promote the spread of ideas and collaboration between teams.</p>
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<p>Several teams attended the two NEGEM (New England iGEM meetup) conferences, including Tufts, Harvard, Wellesley, MIT, WPI, UMass-Dartmouth, and Northeastern. At the first meetup, the iGEM teams in attendance were encouraged to share their projects and give insights and suggestions to each project. Collaborations between teams were initiated and many ideas were shared. Most importantly, it gave us a chance to meet and bond with the other synthetic biologists taking part in iGEM this summer.</p>
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<p>At the second meetup, all the iGEM teams rehearsed their final presentations, and feedback was given to each team to make their presentation stronger. We also gave feedback on team wikis and finalized any collaboration efforts. It was exciting to see all the accomplishments of each team after a long summer of hard work.</p>
  
 
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Revision as of 21:04, 17 September 2015

NEGEM Wellesley

Collaborations

Collaboration between iGEM teams is one of the most important aspect of the competition. Instead of competition where teams are struggling to out perform each other, teams are encouraged to work together for the betterment of synthetic biology as a whole. The Boston University team has taken this ideal to heart and has worked in several different ways to collaborate with other teams.

NEGEM

An important aspect of synthetic biology is the collaboration and exchange of ideas and techniques. The interchange ideas between colleagues can lead to important advancements and progress in the field. This summer we hosted two conferences between all the teams in the New England area to promote collaboration between the teams and feedback on each other's’ projects and presentations to promote the spread of ideas and collaboration between teams.

Several teams attended the two NEGEM (New England iGEM meetup) conferences, including Tufts, Harvard, Wellesley, MIT, WPI, UMass-Dartmouth, and Northeastern. At the first meetup, the iGEM teams in attendance were encouraged to share their projects and give insights and suggestions to each project. Collaborations between teams were initiated and many ideas were shared. Most importantly, it gave us a chance to meet and bond with the other synthetic biologists taking part in iGEM this summer.

At the second meetup, all the iGEM teams rehearsed their final presentations, and feedback was given to each team to make their presentation stronger. We also gave feedback on team wikis and finalized any collaboration efforts. It was exciting to see all the accomplishments of each team after a long summer of hard work.

The BU iGEM Team presents their project at NEGEM

The Harvard team presents their project

The students listen and provide feedback to each iGEM team