Community

The iGEM community page lets you see what some of your fellow iGEM Teams are up to. If you want to add something to this page, send us an email to hq (at) igem . org and we'll add it!

Team Imperial College has made two documentaries on their bioplastic project, Plasticity! Check out the Director's Cut video and abbreviated video!

"Do you know "Ninja"? Ninja was an ancient spy-warrior in Japan. This year, Tokyo Tech programmed a ninja system into E. coli! This E. coli is named Escherichia ninja! In this video, team members play our story of "Mutant Ninja coli". Escherichia ninja can mimic civilian, throw shuriken, and … !? Please enjoy this video!!" - Team Tokyo Tech

You can check out their video here!

Team Uppsala designed a survey, and says:

"Did your team use a killswitch in the design of your project?

We would be glad if one person or the whole team could give answers representing an iGEM team. You are also welcome to take part in the survey as an individual, but please state so if that is the case. You are welcome to be anonymous if you want, also please state if you are an anonymous team or individual.

Thanks in advance

iGEM Uppsala"

"Atoms Turkiye designed a 100 meter squared floor game which involves two players(cancer cell and normal cell). Each player travels to different organs via the blood vessels to complete different activities. The aim of this game is for the players to envisage what it's like to be a normal cell or a cancer cell." Watch their video here!

Team ATOMS-Turkiye says: "SynPhilo's first interactive theatre 'Know Your Cell, Know Yourself' intended to take the audience on a discovery of the behaviour of cancer and its connection to the humans through our organised activities and an act play scripted by our team members. SynPhilo interactive theatre analysed every movement of cancer first scientifically then reasoned its behaviour morally and found the interrelation of cancer with us humans, teaching us how to react through seeing a live example such as cancer that lives within us and slowly pulls the body to death as well as itself." Check out their video!

"Check out Team Freiburg's project song: Why don't you take our CRISPR kit? Song and video are about our lab problems and uniCAS toolkit for gene regulation. Our creative head Max wrote storyboard and song text himself and the whole team participated in the following video shoot. We hope you will have as much fun watching it as we had!"

Team TU-Munich says: "Over the years, many iGEM teams realised, that proper annotation of Biobricks often is tedious and not achieved. As a first step towards a better annotated parts registry, we developed an easy-to-use tool to significantly increase the quality of annotation of you Biobricks within seconds: the AutoAnnotator!"

Team TU-Munich says:"Dear fellow iGEMers, in the past years, many teams have been and actually still are working on Bioremediation to battle global as well as local pollution. Taking solutions to this problem to the next level, we used the moss Physcomitrella patens as self-sustaining, self-renewing, aquatic chassis to create the Team TU-Munich PhyscoFilter, building upon several previous and present iGEM projects"

Team Fudan has updated their iGEMcyclopedia to version 2.0 this year! It is a Wikipedia-like website about iGEM, serving to provide as much information as possible about iGEM, especially the team projects. For each word, it provides a general definition, information about related iGEM teams and their work. It is built on an interactive platform, allowing all the readers to add and edit the entries. You can try it here!

Team UNIK Copenhagen made a video with advice on fundraising as part of their video project "Bricks of Knowledge". Additional videos on topics such as lab organization, etc. made by other teams for Bricks of Knowledge can be seen on Team UNIK Copenhagen's wiki here!

Team Imperial College says: "We are engineering microbes to make environmentally friendly plastics from mixed waste. We created these recycling awareness posters as part of our human practices to raise awareness about recycling, iGEM and our project. Let us know what you think, or better yet why not tweet us some photos of our posters around your university campus (@imperialigem)."

Click on each thumbnail for the PDF!

"iGEM BGU Israel participated in the annual children's science festival. We set up a number of activities for children to learn about synthetic and micro biology: growing bacteria from your finger on petri dishes before and after using hand sanitizer (showing the importance of washing your hands as well!), and writing your name in DNA by translating English letters into DNA codons using Craig Venter's Ascii table and making the sequence into colorful decorations of DNA strands for the upcoming holiday season. For the parents and older children, we presented the iGEM foundation and our project, and distributed our public opinion survey about synthetic biology."

Check out their video here!

Team British Columbia says: "As some of you may already know, Vine is a new app that takes 6 second videos and has been trending all around the world for the past month. So, here is your chance to collaborate with the University of British Columbia by describing your project or biobricks in 6 seconds! You take a vine video from your phone and upload it directly to a twitter account (such as VINEiGEM2013). They get REALLY creative! The description of the collaboration and information on how to use Vine and where to upload your video is available at: 2013.igem.org/Team:British_Columbia/Collaborations."

"Dear iGEMmers,

The team of Ghent University participating in this year's iGEM competition wonders how other teams have experienced iGEM so far and therefore put together a little questionnaire for you to fill in.
It would be great if you could take just a little of your time by filling in this survey: survey link
Thank you and good luck with your project!"

- Team UGent

Team TU-Eindhoven says: "As part of the human practices section of our project we created a fact check system called Synthetic Facts. Synthetic Facts is an online system devoted to prove or disprove the most common "facts" about synthetic biology. We are happy to invite you to check it out! While you are at it feel free to post a comment on one of the available "facts" or send us a request to revise one you have seen or heard somewhere."

Team UANL Mty-Mexico made a video for their collaboration with Team Copenhagen!

Check out the video that Team Manaus Amazonas-Brazil made of their Human Practices project!

Team ITU MOBGAM Turkey also made a video asking the public to define synthetic biology: "Do you know ''chro-genetics''? If anyone find the answer let us know :)''

Check out Team ITU MOBGAM Turkey's Human Practices video! The team says: ''Hello everyone, It is our first year in iGEM, and we thought asking ''What is iGEM?'' question to public would be a good start to our human practice project. We hope you to enjoy it.''

Team TU-Delft is working on a low-cost DIY Typhoon as part of their Human Practices project! "Lab equipment is rather expensive, they usually range in several ten thousand dollars, which limits some iGEM teams in competing. The solution we are working on is by designing DIY lab equipment: easily assembled, low-cost equipment that still gives good performance. We are now designing a DIY Typhoon (name still to be decided), which can scan petri dishes and 96 well plates for expression of fluorescence at micrometer scale within 2 minutes for around 1500 dollars."

Photos of the designing and building process can be found on the team's Facebook album!

Team Bordeaux has created a software tool, and says: "For large teams with complicated assemblies strategies or team member rotating without easy way to keep track of what has been done it can be difficult to keep track of what step has been accomplished and which one is left to be done. We have created the Virtual Lab : a dedicated Online Information Management System to help Igem teams visualize the progress of their project in real time and share with their off-site team members. We would like to have the feed back from the Igem community to see if we can further improve the Users Interface and add more functionality. So please register your team and your project and let the Virtual Lab help you organize your remaining experiments."

"Dear iGEMers,

The team Paris Bettencourt is studying the motivations of students / advisors / instructors to participate in iGEM. It would be extremely helpful, if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this survey. Thank you!"

- Team Paris Bettencourt

'We are happy to present you Morph Bioinformatics from London- an iGEM-start up focusing on IT Solutions for Molecular Biology and aiming to become THE bioinformatics hub. Their iOS app 'OpenLabs' comprises various cloning features and makes molecular biology lab work more efficient, convenient and easily distributable. Check out the free beta-Version and help them adjust it to your needs!"

You can also check them out on Facebook, Twitter (@MBioinformatics), and YouTube!

Team METU Turkey made a video describing why the team joined iGEM! You can check it out here.

"Hello there. We are Baskent Meds, Baskent University's iGEM team. We lived in our lab to create a monster Escherichiastein Coli that designed to murder Legionary Pneumophilia. Enjoy a short horror movie that's about our iGEM adventure!"

"This year Cornell iGEM is creating a novel fungal toolkit for higher order basidiomycetes using Ganoderma lucidum. The toolkit will include constructs with antibiotic resistance for selection, constitutive and inducible regulatory elements, fluorescence markers to detect expression levels, and constructs to test the potency of homologous recombination. In addition, Cornell iGEM aims to improve current mycelium-based biomaterials, such as those produced by Ecovative Design, by introducing targeted antifungal genes as well as carotenoid biosynthetic pathways."

You can see their team video here!

Hang out with Team TecMonterrey for a day in their video! Says the team: "This is how iGEM Tec Monterrey deals with an average work day, preparing ourselves for the Regional Jamboree!"

"L-forms: a novel chassis for synthetic biology. Team Newcastle invites you to explore what's possible when bacteria lose their cell wall." Watch their video to find out more!

Team Baskent Meds says: "We walked around Ankara, went to our favourite places, talked people about iGEM and here is some of the people who support us. Lots of love to everyone!" See their video here!

Check out the video that Team METU Turkey made about their project, Bee Subtilis!

Team SydneyUni Australia says: "Strange Nature is an online platform for students and educators to explore synthetic biology. We showcase cool and informative videos, animations and resources, we host an opinion poll and a short quiz about common misconceptions, and most importantly, we are running a science-writing competition for high-school students. The theme is 'What problems will be caused or solved by synthetic biology?'"

Team Valencia Biocampus explains their project in this animated video!

Check out the video that Team York UK made about their project: " Improving Microbial Fuel Cell Technology"!

Team NTNU-Trondheim has updated their Matchmaker program for 2013! Says the team: "The iGEM Matchmaker [website] makes it possible for teams to share their strengths and what they would like help with, making it easy to get in touch with other teams."