In order to realise the project, the team needs various resources and materials. They have created a project on betterplace for this purpose. Have a look for more details:
This year, the Botany Conference took place in Halle(Saale). We didn't want to miss this opportunity and of course presented our project. Here you can see Chiara during the poster presentation. It was once again a great opportunity to gain early insights into a wide range of topics, especially in relation to our project.
Ruby Transformation with Agro Bacteria in our Nicotiana benthamiana! Look at the bright red colour after only a few days!
Vlad and Julia were at the BFH MeetUp in Bielefeld!
Here they were able to get to know this year's iGEM teams and also present our own project with a presentation and a poster.
The exchange with other groups working in synthetic biology helped us a lot! It was a great experience!
Our first conference!
Chiara and Julia were in Vienna at the Mendel Early Career Symposium and spent two great days there. They presented our project as a poster and got a first impression of how many different topics are still open for research in plant biology. They had a great time getting to know all of the projects and the people!
Ronja and Boas, the supervisors of the Synbio team in 2024, went to visit the Braunschweiger Bürgerstiftung together with Julia, a member of the team. There, Ronja presented last year's "Li+onSwitch" project and reported on her team's successes. Boas also explained why the team is not taking part in the iGEM competition this year and instead presented alternative plans for the Synbio project. In particular, they talked about the Synbio team's plans for science communication with schools. The Braunschweiger Bürgerstiftung has already supported the teams from 2022 and 2023. This year's Synbio Team 2024 is therefore very excited to have the support of the Braunschweiger Bürgerstiftung as well!
Here you can see red/purple spots on the leaves of individual plants. These are most likely stress-induced anthocyanins, which were probably caused by too much direct light.
In the meantime, after about 1 month, the plants have grown quite a bit. As you can see, they have different sizes and characteristics, this is due to the seeds themselves and their genetic make-up, but also to the initial conditions under which they were kept.
To get off to a good start, the team needs different plants.
Arabidopsis thaliana seeds have already been sown and after a few days are already showing a few beautiful leaves.
After long nights researching different paper and methods our Synbio-Team 2024 has found a project !
In their project, the students are working on the blue colour complex of the cornflower. They want to research the genes that are responsible for the blue colouring and then transfer these to other plants.
Here they are, our dedicated SynBio-Team 2024 !