Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/hp collaborations

GenetiX_Tec_CCM:

On Monday June the 2nd we had a videoconference with “GenetiX_Tec_CCM” team, from “Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México” high school. At the beginning, they were contacting one of our teammates and they asked if we could make a Skype Call, we of course accepted and scheduled it when both teams could concur. As we are both Mexican teams, we decided to help each other, also as a symbol of the national help between its habitants.

On the videoconference both teams talked about how our projects were developing, if we had any problem with the BioBricks or tools needed for the project. We also talked about general information from our teams, like the number of members, how old we are, how we started in the iGEM Competition, and more.

We also had an exchange of information about our projects and it was very interesting to know in what are they working on, how they did it or if they received some kind of capacitation or help from their institution, also telling them how these situations were in our team.

This was a great experience for us; to talk to other students with the same age as us, which are working in their own project as we are doing in ours and share our great iGEM experience.

UCL London:

On Monday June the 9th, we had a Skype videoconference with the “Team:UCL” from London. At first, we scheduled the conference to discuss things about the usage of the IrrE gene. The conversation was about our project, but they also explained their project to us. It was very interesting listening to their project, and how they were developing it; their project was about removing ammonia from water and they were using the IrrE gene to give resistance to the bacteria and a kill switch to avoid uncontrolled spreading. We also spoke about the sponsors they have, and how many team members they were and vice-versa. The team offered us to sequence some pieces, unluckily; we had already sequenced everything that had to be sequenced.