Collaboration with the iGEM Team from the University of Southern Denmark

We invited the iGEM Team from the Southern University of Denmark to Bielefeld to share and exchange knowledge and of course to meet another iGEM team. On the 25th of September Asbjørn Müller, Andreas Kjær, Malou Reedorf and Ida Appel visited us on a surprinsingly sunny saturday in Bielefeld. Most of the german iGEM teams ([Team:Bielefeld-Germany Bielefeld],[Team:Bonn Bonn], [Team:TU_Darmstadt Darmstadt], [Team:Goettingen Göttingen], [Team:Marburg_SYNMIKRO Marburg], Munich ([Team:LMU-Munich LMU] and [Team:TU_Munich TU] and [Team:Tuebingen Tübingen]) had organized a common day in each city across Germany to inform about iGEM, Synthetic Biology and to present their projects. We thought that extending the common day to other European teams would be great, so the SDU-Denmark team also presented their project and helped us to communicate with the guests. We think that both for our teams and for the guests the cooperation between the teams was a great success and an enrichment. Our guests could see that young scientists from different countries can work together to find innovative solutions. Together we talked with a lot of people, showed microorganisms and isolated DNA from different fruits to educate about the basics of modern life sciences. We also had organized some games for kids (see here: Street Science in Bielefeld).

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