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Our team are committed to forming close and meaningful relationships with our fellow iGEMer. Take a look at the work we’ve been doing with different iGEM teams…





After attending the St Andrews UK virtual meetup the KCL team became a very close contact with us working together throughout the summer on a series of different events including outreach, wiki support as well as a therapeutics virtual meetup!


Their project revolves around 3D printing a scaffolding using muscle foot proteins (mfps) to treat spinal cord injuries. With a shared interest in neurological therapeutics we decided to co-host a therapeutics virtual meetup event:


King’s College London x University of Nottingham - Virtual Therapeutics Track Meet-Up


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On the 19th September, we jointly hosted a conference with King’s College London, inviting teams from around the world who were also registered on the iGEM Therapeutics track. This global meet-up was inspired by realising the similarity in our project, NeuroTone, with KCL’s project Renervate.


Over months of weekly meetings with their 2020 team we developed this idea with the vision of bringing other therapeutics teams together using the new, online world of Zoom. We wanted to remove the distance and borders between us all so that we could fully collaborate and discuss our ideas in a shared space. The focus was very much to offer other iGEM teams the opportunity to meet their fellow Therapeutics track members and see them not as competitors, but collaborators.


On the day, we enjoyed a very successful afternoon presenting NeuroTone and listening to the other teams talk about their projects in a variety of ways. One team used a narrated video to describe what they had done, while others took the chance to use it as a Jamboree style presentation! Once the presentations and introductions were complete, we allowed everyone to engage in a discussion about certain approaches to therapeutics as well as critical feedback for each other.


Overall, we had a great time and we thank King’s College London for working alongside us to prepare for the global Virtual Meet-Up!


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After working so closely with the KCL team we thought it’d be rude not to invite them to our podcast! In this episode we spoke about their project, the inspiration behind it as well as the challenges they'd faced. We also had some light hearted chat too.


Additionally, with little to no experience in coding, (Yep, that’s me!) I decided to reach out to the team leader who has a year of wiki editing under her belt to gain insight on how to get started with the wiki as well as things to avoid.




To gain insight on how to organise a virtual meetup we contacted the St Andrews team to better understand the dos and don’ts when planning such a large online event like a virtual meet up. They were also very kind to give us a European iGEM ambassador contact to get in touch with to help us make this meetup happen!
A huge thank you to St Andrews for hosting such an amazing event!


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Exeter iGEM team provided a helpful line of CSS code to resolve the wiki formatting issue we had.
You can find the guide here! Additionally, our wiki team member helped Exeter resolve issues with their footer.






In July we were contacted by Nicolas from the Paris-Bettencourt undergrad team about their skin microbiome project. They were interested in seeing if our team in Nottingham was still in lockdown, and whether we would like to take part in their skin survey. We arranged a meeting between our two teams and discussed our respective projects as well as the similarities between our teams. From the meeting we agreed that the Nottingham team would share the skin survey on our social media and to friends and family in Leicester which was still in lockdown at the time. The Paris- Bettencourt team agreed to feature in one of our podcasts in return.

ParisXUoN-meet-up

Later on in the summer, the Paris-Bettencourt team recorded the second episode of the Notts Podcast with us. We also attended the Paris Global Meetup where our team member Alistair greatly enjoyed getting involved in a discussion on GM probiotics.