Collaboration is a very important issue. We think that sharing our ideas could be very benefic for both team engaged in the collaboration. There are more than 240 teams involved in the iGEM 2012 so it was impossible not to find another team sharing same aspect of our project.

IGEM FRANCE

iGEM FRANCE is a collaborative website that gathers together the iGEM French community. It has been created in the beginning of 2012 by Paris-Bettencourt team as a help for students and professors to create and run their iGEM team. The website is above all a way to share knowledge, either through its forum, or by arranging meetings.

Collaboration with the University of British Columbia (UBC)

We have established a collaboration with UBC for our human practices. Indeed UBC is working on Intellectual property this year such as our team.
One of our advisor is an economic teacher so we have suggest to UBC when we have seen they have made a survey on IP, that we can bring them some suggestion to improve their survey or to interpret their survey. In exchange they have shared with us their survey results.
We have used their results to show what kind of IP issues IGEM teams could meet. To see the results of our collaboration you might read our human practice.

An interesting way to undertake a collaboration with Goettingen team

Furthermore, we tried to begin a collaboration with Goettingen team. They are working on a super swimmer E.Coli strain. We proposed them different ways of collaboration. We wished to compare the effect of the swimming effect on the biofilm between their E.Coli strain and our Bacillus subtilis natural swimmer strain. We proposed them to send our Bacillus subtilis strain to make them able to make a small swimming competition between both strains. But for different reasons, unfortunately the collaboration did not succeed.

Collaboration with Munich

We took part to Munich survey about their proposition of standardization of BioBricks part descriptions.