We have achieved from a multidisciplinary team for our project. The team is composed by Engineering students, Industrial Designer and Journalist.
We were announced that UChile OpenBio got 2° Award Competition for Innovative Ideas & Technology Copec-UC Foundation and StgoLabSpace. The award generated significant project visibility.
Sigma-Aldrich provided us for the laboratory reagents around USD $1900 (Golden Sponsor).
It was very important to decrease the time to providing reagents for project.
Attach archive Sponsorship Invoice.
The gBlocks are pieces of DNA around 500 pb long, so if you have gens of around 1Kb, you will have to link two gBlocks. For link gBocks, we use the Gibson Assembly technique.
The gBlocks arrived means to us that we could finally began to assemble our genetic circuit.
We participate of a sessions for guide and empower our project.
The development of entrepreneurial skills in the team was supported of OpenLab Beauchef. We participate in workshops innovation and entrepreneurship. It was a strategic stakeholder for the team.
On August 2015 ICEI Ingeniería y construcción Ltda. (Silver Sponsor) funded 1695 USD for 1 plane tickets and 1 registration fee. They also supported us with the purchase process.
On 13 August 2015 the team presented our iGEM competition Brochure to Juan Asenjo, director of CeBiB our actual partner. They Supported us with 5.000.000 CLP, (7309 USD at the time). This helped us to pay about 50% of the accommodation payment, 2 more plane tickets for the rest of the team and 3 inscription fee.
We started the formation of our multidisciplinary iGEM team to make possible our project idea of a open source club “OpenBio”; however, at the beginning, we were a team of only Biotechnology Engineering. Our mission: To boost Synthetic Biology for new generations in Chile, Open Source way and non-profit. Our first challenge accepted was to have our first iGEM Team.
The registration was paid by CeBiB and DIQBT. They also provide their laboratories and spaces to develop the project.
“Silence is the element in which all great things are formed”
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
CONICYT (Research, Science and Technology National Commission) Conicyt provided us for 4 event fee payments. We were visited this governmental organization during 4 months to look for financial support. At June we got its support. The support at this contest is around $2570 USD (Silver Sponsor).
We reached the goal of 3715 USD (Silver Sponsor). It was very important to support 4 ticket travel. We used Fondeadora crowfunding page because it is a easy donate way, we had contact direct to support and confidence in Chile, they are a rising platform in Latinoamerica. Unfortunatly, they were slow to give us the money.
We use the support of IDT(Golden Sponsor) to the iGEM’s teams for synthesize the biobricks that we used in our proyect. This biobricks came in the format of gBlocks.
We were visited by Ana Sifuentes, Manager of iGEM’s Teams for Latinoamerica.
Her visit was very enriching because we could to know what facts are important to have a good iGEM experience. She could talk about her experience in iGEM like manager and like past member of a team. Her contribution for our team was clear and effective; it allowed have a know how for each activity in iGEM Jamboree and Boston. Also, it allowed better our image project for institutional sponsors.
Finaly on 10 August we made our budget and we were ready to present it to interested Organizations. At that date we had covered 43% of the total expenses.
We visited iGEM UAndes Team in Bogotá, Colombia.
It was a valuable opportunity to extend our project towards other countries.
In that occasion, we presented them our project, the difficulties we had to face and how we solutioned them.
