Team:UFSCar-Brasil/Acknowledgements
Collaborations
Who did help us?
How iGEM UFSCAR-Brasil collaborated with iGEM Teams
Our Team collaborated with national and international Times project, besides being the mentor of two new Brazilian teams. We contribute online surveys of 4 teams and we think that these contacts should be encouraged. Follow along as we share and collaborate with different teams:
Help to Stockholm, Finland, iGEM_nankai and iGEM Korea_U_Seo Teams by completing their survey forms. We also cooperate in filling the iGEM Global Cooperation, a form developed by several times, including Brasil-USP Team. The highlight was Team of Stockholm, which dealt on the negative results presented in Wikis, a point discussed in our weekly meetings. Thank you contact the three teams in question and hope that the answers have helped their respective activities Human Practices.
Aid to Stockholm and IISER iGEM Teams in g-blocks design for the construction of the gene circuit your project. Our idea was to contribute to and instructions on how to design and provide the best results in their amplification experiments and construction of its gene circuits.
One of the great experiences lived by our team was the help we offer to future Brazilian teams (UNESP-Assis and Unifei-Itajubá), who knew the iGEM participation in Jamboré and 4Biotec events. To our excitement, interested in setting up new teams are inspired students in projects such as iGEM Team Brazil-SP, represented by members of our current staff. This shows the power the iGEM presents and its growth potential in Brazil. As well, as perform in-person contacts with students during the above events, we are also assisting the assembly of the teams via Skype. Below we list the main aspects that deal on competition and the challenges of creating a team in Brazil:
Set up a multidisciplinary team, organized and present members interested in working with energy for synthetic biology
Seek financial resources in many different ways, either by simply selling brigadiers as by contacting your local University. Organize the team's finances and make enrollment in the Giant Jamboree.
Make weekly meetings, gather people interested in synthetic biology, study together and think of innovative projects that can help your community.
Enjoy and learn how to work in teams.
Seek the support of his teachers and heads of laboratories, are the key to running a iGEM project.
Know and learn the techniques behind the lab protocols.
UNIFEI Team - Thank you letter
Collaborations with our Team
We would like to thank all the people who contributed to our team achievements:
Prof. Dr. Maria Teresa Marques Novo Mansur (Department of Genetics and Evolution, UFSCar), for providing restriction enzymes used in wet lab and also for supporting us as Coordinator of Bachelor´s in Biotechnology Course
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Cioffi (Department of Genetics and Evolution, UFSCar), for offering us Microscopy Lab facilities
Professors Dr. Ernesto Chaves Pereira de Souza and Dr. Marco Antonio Barbosa Ferreira (Chemistry Department, UFSCar), for providing us D-limonene reagent used in bean experiment
FAI Staff (UFSCAr Institutional Support Foundation), whose actions enabled obtaining of sponsorship, as well as all procedures for our team members trip to Boston: General Director Lourdes Moraes, Alexandre Bueno, Vanessa Di Genova, Eva Iniesta, Tatiane Liberato and Leila Freitas
Heber dos Santos Tavares, for offering us Teaching Lab facilities (Genetics and Evolution Department, UFSCar)
Michael Henrique Zanin and Valéria Silva helped us to translate our texts for Wiki
Cayla Conway helped us to translate a lot of texts for Wiki and tips for Boston
Guilherme Engelberto Kundlatsch and Mariana Trevisan, former team members, supported us in project conception, experimental design, and fundraising activities
We thanks Dr. Rodrigo Facchini Magnani, Researcher of "Fundo de Defesa da Citricultura" (Fundecitrus) and associated researcher of Laboratory of Micromolecular Biochemistry of Microrganisms (LaBioMMi) of Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, for provided special attention and perform experiments of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
We thanks Prof. Dr. Edson Rodrigues Filho, researcher in chief of LaBioMMi, for turns available CG-MS analysis to detection of D-Limonene.
Our amazing sponsors!
