Team:Paris Bettencourt/collaborations

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<p> We established a collaboration for the Human practice with two teams: On one hand, we gave our opinion to Freiburg's after reviewing their <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Freiburg/Oath">"Oath for Life" project</a>. The main point, in our opinion that needed to be worked on was about the respect of laws and regulations and the fact that they should mention and may be develop a point about international standards since an oath is valid if everybody respects it worldwide. We wish them good luck! On the other hand, we would like to thanks the Grenoble team for helping us on our Human Practice project by sending us a video of a debate about Synthetic Biology they did. We are working with the leaflets they sent us to help them in return: we gave a quiz on synthetic biology to two samples of undergraduate students involved in an interdisciplinary curriculum. The first sample has no leaflet and the second work with the leaflet. For more information, see: <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Grenoble/HumanPractice">Grenoble's human practice page</a>.</p>
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<p> We established a collaboration for the Human practice with two teams: on the one hand, we gave our feedback as they requested to Freiburg's team after reviewing their <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Freiburg/Oath">"Oath for Life" project</a>. The point we conveyed to them was about the respect of laws and regulations and the fact that they should mention and may be develop a point about international standards since an oath is valid ''if and only if'' everybody respects it worldwide. </p>
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<p> On the other hand, we had a real exchange with the Grenoble team. They gave us a hand on our Human Practice project by sending us a video of a debate about Synthetic Biology they ran. It shall be incorporated within our own discussion most notably when considering ethics. In return, we agreed to repeat the experiment they did for their own Human Practice project. Their basic idea is to create two leaflets explaining respectively biology and modelling to people who are from the other discipline. We therefore sent them videos of pairs of students taking their tests (one from each background); these students pertain to the FdV curriculum. The latter is an interdisciplinary undergaduate program, we believed it was interesting to choose these students since there is a balanced mix of biologists and maths/physics and little did they know of synthetic biology. As for the test itslef we followed the protocol that was discussed with the supervisor of the Grenoble team.
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For more information, see: <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Grenoble/HumanPractice">Grenoble's human practice page</a>.</p>
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Team IGEM Paris 2011

Collaborations

During these past months, we tried to establish as many interactions as possible with different labs as well as other iGEM teams.

With iGEMers

We established a collaboration for the Human practice with two teams: on the one hand, we gave our feedback as they requested to Freiburg's team after reviewing their "Oath for Life" project. The point we conveyed to them was about the respect of laws and regulations and the fact that they should mention and may be develop a point about international standards since an oath is valid ''if and only if'' everybody respects it worldwide.

On the other hand, we had a real exchange with the Grenoble team. They gave us a hand on our Human Practice project by sending us a video of a debate about Synthetic Biology they ran. It shall be incorporated within our own discussion most notably when considering ethics. In return, we agreed to repeat the experiment they did for their own Human Practice project. Their basic idea is to create two leaflets explaining respectively biology and modelling to people who are from the other discipline. We therefore sent them videos of pairs of students taking their tests (one from each background); these students pertain to the FdV curriculum. The latter is an interdisciplinary undergaduate program, we believed it was interesting to choose these students since there is a balanced mix of biologists and maths/physics and little did they know of synthetic biology. As for the test itslef we followed the protocol that was discussed with the supervisor of the Grenoble team. For more information, see: Grenoble's human practice page.

Fig1: The quiz experiment. Study groups with the leaflet on the left and without on the right

Thanks to the Peking iGEM team, we re-used their 2007 iGEM project result (the push-on push-off system) in our own project. They kindly sent this device to us as well as microbial strains. We are indebted to their team leader for participating to a couple of our reunions at the beginning of our project during his stay in Paris; his ideas helped us moving forward in the different competing projects we had in mind.

With the world

During the project we established contact with several labs which gave us strains and plasmids. We would like to give special thanks to:

  • P.Dubey and S.Ben-Yehuda, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose article spiked our interest and initiated our project. We thank them for the strains they gave us and for their kind advice in setting up the experiments
  • M. Elowitz, from Caltech, who gave us his pComG-cfp pComS-yfp contruction
  • L. A. Sonenshein, from Tufts University, who gave us ∆CodY B. Subtilis strains
  • J. V. Veening, from Groningen Usiversity, for the reporter strains he sent us in relation with the sporulation system
  • H. Putzer and C. Condon, from IBPC, for multi host vectors we biobricked and a kind help
  • S. Serror, from Orsay University, for the help and advice she gave us
  • D. Lane, from Toulouse II University, who gave us the tetR:YFP and TetO array we biobricked
  • P. Bassereau, from Institut Curie for the ideas she gave us to model the assisted diffusion
  • Y. Chai, from Losick Lab (Harvard University) who provided us strains for the biofilm project

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