[Lhs-biohacking] Fwd: Congratulations! 2015 iGEM Team Sponsorship offer from GenScript

[Victoria Butler]

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From: Rachel Speer <Rachel...@genscript.com>
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2015
Subject: Congratulations! 2015 iGEM Team Sponsorship offer from GenScript
To: "victoriahu...@gmail.com" <victoriahu...@gmail.com>
Cc: igem <ig...@genscript.com>

Dear Victoria,

 

Thank you for applying for GenScript sponsorship for the 2015 iGEM competition!  On behalf of GenScript, I'm delighted to offer sponsorship to Team London_Biohackspace in the form of a credit toward GenScript services to accelerate your team's project. The details of our proposal are as follows:

 

GenScript will offer Team London_Biohackspace:

•             A cash coupon of $500 USD for purchase of molecular biology services, including gene synthesis, subcloning, and mutagenesis services at GenScript during the 2015 iGEM season (June 15, 2015 - September 15, 2015).

 

If you choose to accept GenScript sponsorship, we request that your team members:

•             Print the GenScript logo on your team clothes.                                                                                                        

•             Acknowledge GenScript on your team webpage (wiki) and in your project presentations.

•             Take photos of your team's presentations during the Giant Jamboree (September 24 - 28 in Boston) and submit them, along with a short report (1 page) of your team's performance and reflections on participating in iGEM 2015, to ig...@genscript.com by October 2, 2015.  We will post a description of your team's project and awards to www.genscript.com/igem.html

 

If you decide to accept this sponsorship, I will ask our technical support team to create a GenScript account for you and deposit the $500 credit into your account for your future purchase.  Please reply by Monday, June 15 to let us know if you accept the offer of GenScript sponsorship for the 2015 iGEM competition.

 

We look forward to helping you achieve great things in the 2015 iGEM competition!

 

Best wishes,

 

Rachel

 

Rachel Speer, Ph.D.

Technical Writer, Molecular Biology

Email:     Rachel...@genscript.com

Phone:   732-885-9188 x 271

 

GenScript USA, Inc.

860 Centennial Ave.
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Phone:  877-436-7274

Fax:         732-210-0262

Web:      www.genscript.com

 

 

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[Edoardo Gianni]

Whoop whoop! :)
 

Now all the other gene synthesis companies in the world!

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[Victoria Butler]

Can you send us a list x x x of who to approach .. Have been asking ilya but i just get super negative replies or a mild telling off x x x

[bios...@gmail.com]

Hi, I could definitely think of some names (biotech business development was my full time job for a number of years)
Is it specifically gene synthesis companies or molecular biology companies you're after?

Sam



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[Victoria Butler]

Hey hey 

That would be super cool ... Thank you...

Thats more a group question right ... Who do we want to work with ... 

Are you about on sunday for igem or the bootcamp ? 

Hope the meeting with the 1000 genome people go well tonight ... Be great if they can work from the lab and we can exchange projects with them 

Thanks again 

Kindest wishes vix 

[Samantha Thompson]

GeneArt is the service that's available through Invitrogen/Life Tech
(probably the biggest supplier of life science stuff in the industry)
:
http://www.lifetechnologies.com/uk/en/home/life-science/cloning/gene-synthesis/geneart-gene-synthesis.html?cid=fl-genesynthesis

OriGene is now doing gene synthesis, they started off as just a cDNA
library company and have got into more related areas now:
http://www.origene.com/gene-synthesis/

Blue Heron... looks like this is a part of OriGene so probably same
service as above..
http://www.blueheronbio.com/services/gene-synthesis.aspx

Eurofins Genomics... I buy my primers from them and was their genomic
services specialist when I worked for them a few years ago I used to
sell their gene synthesis stuff so we've possibly got something of a
connection with them already (there used to be a guy in the lab in
Germany called Uwe Kohler who headed up the gene synthesis stuff who
might still be there), they were one of the earlier people to get into
the market.. definitely worth talking to..

GeneWiz?... these ones are new to me, they might be keen to market
themselves more through sponsorship
http://www.genewiz.com/public/gene-synthesis.aspx

DNA2.0... these seem to have also appeared since I was directly
involved in this market and I feel like I should know more about
them...
https://www.dna20.com/services/gene-synthesis

I should really try and make it to the sunday thing and be more
helpful in general, I started a new job a couple of months ago so have
been hugely sidetracked.. I'll try to contribute more although I am
actually doing regular lab stuff during off peak times :)
The bootcamp thing sounds like a great idea and reminds me of some of
the molecular cloning workshops during my masters, I think this
intense hands on format is the best way to learn these kinds of
techniques so I recommend everyone to get involved with it. I'll try
to get to some of the bootcamp myself although work will probably get
in the way.
I was a bench molecular biologist for several years so I'm happy to
help anyone wanting continue in the biohacking lab with the kind of
stuff they will learn about at the bootcamp.

Sam

[tim w]

you could also try primerdesign in Southampton, they often give out sponsorship, although this tends to be in the form of qPCR reagents rather than cash.  

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