Collaborations

Abstract

Beside the research into the project it is important to collaborate with other iGEM teams to support them. This support can be carried out in different ways, for example an exchange via a skype interview or characterize the other part of the other team. In the following description we list our collaborations between us and other teams.

iGEM-Team York_UK

Because of the fact that both teams do research into microbial fuel cells we get in touch and talked about our projects. We get to know that York had problems with cloning the mtrCAB cluster and invested a lot of time to solve this problems. Because of the fact that time was running we decided to help York. We already designed our MFC and tested different constructions which one is the best to use. We constructed a MFC specially adapted to the requirements of York and wrote an instruction how to operate with the MFC. In addition we put nafion membranes, gaskets, carbon electrodes and injectors into a package and send it to York. We hope that this support helped York to generate good results and finish their project.

iGEM-Team NRP-UEA-Norwich

The iGEM-Team from Norwich developed a biosensor which enable the identification of antimycin-producing strains of streptomyctes. Therefore they asked us to send them soil samples from Bielefeld. Of course we took samples of soil and send them to Norwich. The interesting soil samples of Bielefeld are shown below. We hope that our soil samples helped Norwich.

Figure 1: Sample No. 33

Figure 2: Sample No. 34

Figure 3: Soil from which the samples were taken

iGEM-Team UC Davis