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| + | content.titleLong = "The History of the IGEM Team Bonn"; | ||
| + | content.summary = "The Team Bonn took part at IGEM 2012 for the first time. For 2013 many new members from different departments were attracted. After a crash course even freshmen were able to work in the laboratory." | ||
| + | content.text = "<h1>History</h1><p>Coming off a successful first competition entry and an amazing first jamboree in Amsterdam for our team, our team dove head-first into a off-season video production jaunt, winning first prize in a video competition organized by our state’s ministry of science, research and innovation. In our video, we addressed the contest’s theme of 'Biotechnology Today' by creating an animated short titled 'Synthetic Biology - A Simply Explained'. In addition to an invitation to the prize ceremony held at a cinema museum in nearby Düsseldorf, our winnings included 1500 Euros, which we put to good use as seed money for 2013’s iGEM competition!</p><p>In continuing our practice of recruiting first-year students for our team, we held a well-attended introductory presentation in november and managed to attract over 40 interested students and faculty from our University. After our initial warm-up iGEM team meetings, in which we introduced our new team members to the competition, presenting some successful projects and innovative human practice advances in the last year as well as brain-storming both wetlab and outreach ideas, we signed up 23 full members and developed both an ambitious wetlab project as well as a full schedule of human practice activities.</p><p>During our mid-winter break in February and March, our experienced and veteran team members took to Powerpoint and the teaching lab as we provided our new members with a two-week seminar- and practical-based crash course on molecular biology and its corresponding lab techniques, offering the very first biology lab experience for quite a few of our Freshmen. It is our philosophy that we try to provide early hands-on research experience as well as an eye-opener into the world of synthetic biology for interested students from any university department.</p><p>In March, our whole team, advisors and instructors in tow, crashed a departmental seminar talk at the nearby CAESAR institute held by Prof. Dr. Andreas Möglich, who has done extensive research on light-sensitive proteins. As a team that has been working with those very same light-sensitive LOV proteins for the last two years, it was a great opportunity to discuss the many pros and cons surrounding LOV proteins with an expert in the field! Based on Prof. Dr. Möglich’s recommendations, we tweaked our project outline, incorporating a novel light-sensitive protein switch in our proposed protein degradation system.</p><p>Following our introductory lab sessions focussing on mastering that arcane technique of pipetting Bradford Assays (to measure and improve pipetting accuracy, not to humilate the pipetter with low R2 values!), we started preliminary project-related work, gathering and cloning required genes from labs all over the world.</p><p>And thus it began!</p>"; | ||
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