Team:UANL Mty-Mexico/Human Practices/Collaboration

We attended a few lectures organized by our local fellows of Tec-Monterrey. Additionally, we had a friendly biobrick exchange with them. They gently provided us with a couple of BioBricks as our kit arrival was delayed due to customs issues; then we helped them out characterizing and cloning some of their biobricks that seemed not to be working. We also shared our miniprep protocol that proved to work smoothly.

We provided team Wuhan with the following plasmids (which we got from Dr. Tabor): pJT122, pJT106, pJT106b, pT116, pJT118, pCph8 and pPLPCB(S). Additionally, the JT2 E. coli strain both, alone and co-transformed with different plasmids was sent. We definitely learned how to ship biological parts internationally.

Team Uppsala joined our iGEM lighters community, as they worked with light induction as we did. We had helpful contact with them and tested the VR primers on the B0015 terminator, as they suspected that could be the source of a PCR trouble they were dealing with.