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Collaborations


Poster-Presentation at Conferences


Biotechnologie 2020+ | 3. Jahreskongress

Fabian, Lara and Volker joined the other German teams at the conference organized by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research.

Here the idea for the German information day about Synthetic Biology was born.

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CAS Conference – Synthetic Biology

Fabian joined the other teams at the [http://www.cas.uni-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/tag_synth_bio_2012/index.html CAS Conference] in Munich to present our poster and to talk to the other iGEM Teams participating there

Group picture

Participation in the iGEM Germany action day for synthetic biology


We helped to organise the Action Day of all German iGEM Teams by writing the press release for all other teams. The idea to arrange a Germany wide action day was to address people outside the university and rise awareness about iGEM and SynBio. Besides it was a step to have an "open-science". The people were very pleased to be informed about new approaches, because they thought science is mainly behind closed doors. So we tried to change this view a bit, and hopefully it worked. In seven German cities information booths and activities were organised by iGEM Teams.

If you want to read more about this day, take a look on our "Human Practice" page.


Teams that joined the Action Day


action day auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen
The Action day took place in the following German cities


  • Bielefeld
  • Tübingen
  • Bonn
  • Darmstadt
  • Göttingen
  • Marburg
  • Munich


Collaboration LMU Munich iGEM Team


Action Day

Logo of LMU-Munich iGEM team

The LMU Munich iGEM team joined us on the Action Day. Our team organised the information booth, we organised the permission of the city of Munich, and we payed the fee for it. To get a booth in the city center of Munich is not that easy and costs a lot of time. Besides we organised all the booklets and created a handout to distribute and to inform the public. The LMU iGEM team organised the tables and the movable walls so that we had a booth at all.


Collaboration with Jessica Ebner from Stuttgart University


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Mentioned in her Diploma thesis

Jessica Ebner is a student at the University of Stuttgart. She contacted us at a very early stage of the projected and asked us if it is possible to take our project as an example for an iGEM Team. Her diploma thesis had the title "Engineering of Life –What is Synthetic Biology and how does it operate?" She came and visited us as you can see in the picture. We explained our project to her and she got a login to our internal wiki. In her thesis there are ten pages about iGEM and our team.

Abstract

This diploma thesis aims at reflecting the cross-disciplinary field of Synthetic Biology as an emerging engineering technology. Initially this requires a concise analysis of the historical development of the term Synthetic Biology as well as the recent progresses concerning DNA synthesis and sequencing technologies. Furthermore this comprises the exemplification of the engineering based approach to Synthetic Biology. With reference to the several major categories of Synthetic Biology, this thesis theoretically analyzes the distinct areas of focus and specifies those insights with applied-oriented examples. In addition, this work describes the basic principles of the unique International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition and focuses on the importance of an innovative contribution made by the iGEM team of undergraduate students from the Technical University of Munich. Eventually this thesis conducts a critical evaluation of both, the internal strengths and weaknesses of Synthetic Biology and the chances and risks which the synthetic biology community will likely to be faced with.

Part from her thesis

Here we have a part from her thesis about Synthtic Biologie and the opportunites of it. If you understand German you can take a look here File:TUM Diplomathesis.pdf Besides we got her final presentation, which is in English. File:TUM finalpresenation.pdf

Providing our "Original Bavarian Collaboration Medal"

This team completed TU Munich's survey on Standardization of BioBrick part descriptions

For the response of our [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/B8LZNXQ survey on standardization of BioBrick part descriptions] we provided all the participants with a small badge (shown on the left) for the collaboratin page of their wiki to show that they contributed with their opinion to our attempt to improve the usability of BioBricks in the future.
Additionally we will raffle a typical Bavarian present among all teams completing our survey.
Number of participants: 116
Number of different teams: 55
List of the Teams that have participated:

List of participating iGEM teams
Bielefeld-Germany Colombia UCSF BioscienceDragons_AZ Lyon-INSA
WLC-Milwaukee Wisconsin-Madison ZJU-China Goettingen Bonn
Missouri_Miners British_Columbia Potsdam_Bioware UNAM_Genomics_Mexico Frankfurt
Minnesota Costa_Rica-TEC-UNA NTNU_Trondheim Buenos_Aires SUSTC-Shenzhen-B
MIT Johns_Hopkins-Wetware ULB-Brussels UNITN-Trento Valencia
OUC-China METU Nevada Arizona_State Fatih-Medical
CINVESTAV-IPN-UNAM_MX Slovenia UANL_Mty-Mexico TU_Darmstadt UC_Chile
RHIT Utah_State Austin_Texas Caltech Duke
Johns_Hopkins-Software SUSTC-Shenzhen-A HKUST-Hong_Kong Wageningen_UR Berkeley
Bordeaux Groningen Queens_Canada Tec-Monterrey_EKAM Virginia
Tuebingen Waterloo Valencia_Biocampus TU_Munich Marburg_SYNMIKRO


Contribution to "iGEM Memes" on Facebook


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During spare time in the lab, the creative minds of our team submitted two pictures to the facebook page created by the team from Stanford-Brown