Team:FCB-UANL/Contribution
Organizing the first-ever iGEM HISPAM Meetup represents a lot for us because there had never been an event for the region’s teams. All conferences are available on YouTube for current and future teams, as a way for us to help them. Although this seems to be a one-year contribution, we hope we can establish a tradition for future years by gathering Hispan American iGEMers. Statistics of this meetup can be found in our Collaborations section.
Despite the fact that using B. subtilis as chassis is not something uncommon, it is not used as often as E. coli. Throughout our project’s development, we passed through some obstacles while working with metabolic pathways, the parts registry, and the selection of biobricks. Due to that, we made up the manual How to B. subtilis II, as a complement for the first version made by teams Bonn-Freiburg 2016, which includes valuable information to take into account for all the teams that want to work with this organism.
Following the line of working with B. subtilis, another contribution we made consists of the design of a composition of parts to use in B. subtilis as a producer organism. This since, through the use of these biological pieces, some of the problems related to bacteria, such as sporulation, can be eliminated and products such as surfactin or biofilm can be maximized.
Foams are not a usual thing to work with, and much less to make mathematical modeling related to them. Concerned by the lack of background in iGEM on this matter, we decided to leave our code open-access for future teams. It includes notes for its use, and all equations are also available for everyone to analyze. Our model and code are both available in our Modeling section.