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Team:KU Leuven/Notebook
From 2013.igem.org
Secret garden
Congratulations! You've found our secret garden! Follow the instructions below and win a great prize at the World jamboree!
- A video shows that two of our team members are having great fun at our favourite company. Do you know the name of the second member that appears in the video?
- For one of our models we had to do very extensive computations. To prevent our own computers from overheating and to keep the temperature in our iGEM room at a normal level, we used a supercomputer. Which centre maintains this supercomputer? (Dutch abbreviation)
- We organised a symposium with a debate, some seminars and 2 iGEM project presentations. An iGEM team came all the way from the Netherlands to present their project. What is the name of their city?
Now put all of these in this URL:https://2013.igem.org/Team:KU_Leuven/(firstname)(abbreviation)(city), (loose the brackets and put everything in lowercase) and follow the very last instruction to get your special jamboree prize!
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Kicking off!
Today, everyone finally finished their exams, and we decided to get to work immediately so we held a kick-off meeting, so we had our noses all in the same direction.
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Visit to Biobest
It is always necessary to get feedback from important players in the field ,in order to get relevant feedback on your project. With that thought in mind we contacted Biobest.
Biobest is a Belgian company which exports bumblebees to over 50 countries worldwide. This makes them the leading authority in biological pollination. The presence of the bumblebees makes it necessary to avoid the use of chemical insecticides. For this reason. Biobest produces and commercializes more than 30 kinds of beneficial insects and mites, which are used for biological crop protection. This made them the ideal company to contact for advise and expertise.
After signing in at the reception we presented our project to prof. Felix Wäckers, their head of R&D. Not only did he give some excellent advise but with his help it will be possible to perform experiments with both ladybugs, aphids and perhaps even other insects.
But our visit didn’t end there, besides an interesting discussion we also got a guided tour of the facilities! Needless to say we are very excited to get to work there! -
We had a visit!
Members of this and previous years' Calgary iGEM team came to visit Leuven and, after a few belgian bears, were willing to give us lots of tips & tricks to get through iGEM summer. We noticed that the belgian beers were a bit harder than they could handle ;-)
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Going on a visit!
Collaboration with other teams is important, so we went to Ghent to visit our colleagues of the University of Ghent. First, we went to the Faculty of Bioscience engineering, but everything was closed cause of the Gentse Feesten. We met four friendly students of the team and took some time to know each other. We talked about our projects and exchanged some ideas. Our view on the project is totally different and so we learned from each other. They had already a nice overview of the literature and we already did a lot of work for sponsoring, modelling and human practices. We made a common press article and hopefully we get synthetic biology and our projects in the picture here in Belgium. We’ll see each other soon again at Marktrock in Leuven.
