ABOA25 ALBUM(in)
Our promotion video
Photos depicting the ABOA 2025 journey!
A group pic taken at one of our very first meetings.
A sketch depicting some sort of immunoassay idea we had.
The legendary sketch by Professor Urpo Lamminmäki which introduced the concept of EFCA to us.
The initial design of Eddie E. coli, the protagonist of our game Plasmid Archives.
Our first attempt at trying to make the concept of EFCA easy to understand for the general public. It was not easy to understand.
A screenshot of our promotion video with the automatically generated subtitles. The subtitles were in some sort of pseudo-Finnish.
A revised sketch depicting the control and the actual test EFCAs.
A sketch depicting our idea for a heterogeneous assay.
A five-leaf clover found in the morning of our first ever wet lab day.
Two of our lab team members photographed through a SDS-PAGE gel.
A group pic taken at the Turku City Library event.
Sometimes, being a lab buddy means holding a tube so your partner can pipette more easily.
One of our many mind maps in progress.
Us posing next to poster that has things that motivate us about iGEM written on it.
Our motivation poster
A pipetting chart containing instructions for two 96-plates.
One of our lab member depicting the ideal pipetting posture for ultimate precision.
While coding our game Plasmid Archives, we had some issues with coding the plasmids.
Setting up our "green screen" for promotion video.
Promotion video behind the scenes: RS3885 in the making.
Printing stickers for events.
A conclusion we came to while playing Jackbox games during one of our hang-outs.
Our mascot Tempus spying on people on our wiki.
One of the ABOA 2025 cats, Tofu, showcasing admirable work morale.
The plate reader complained about receiving too much light during our luminescence measurements so we covered it with a trash bag.
Being in the lab often means having to stand around and do nothing while your samples are in the centrifuge.
A visual result of the hemoglobin-HSA separation protocol.
Good lab practice includes calibrating your equipment. Pipette calibration in progress.
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
One of the lab team members focused in their work.
Prepping for the Heureka event
While in Heureka, we also went full tourist mode and enjoyed the exhibitions.
Tubes on a tube roller during IMAC batch spin purification protocol. It reminded us of hotdogs.
A group pic taken during a lab team meeting.
Lab work requires strong pipetting muscles and trained eye.
Yay, even more pipetting!
Making transformation plates
Pouring plates
Nb29-SmBit plate made from a glycerol prep
Our project required a lot of spectrophotometric measurements.
Finnish summer nights are often called nightless. Still, it wasn't totally unusual to leave the lab so late to see a sunset.
Explaining protocols to each other is of utmost importance!
People busy in the lab.
A pic taken through a LA plate
A pic taken through a LA plate
A pic taken through a LA plate
A happy wet labber
A virus made by a child during our Heureka workshop. Unfortunately, many of us caught actual viruses at Heureka as well and got sick after the event.
ABOA members at NiC (Nordic iGEM Conference).
The other ABOA 2025 cat, Ralli, helping with wiki coding.
A group pic taken at one of our very first meetings.
A sketch depicting some sort of immunoassay idea we had.
The legendary sketch by Professor Urpo Lamminmäki which introduced the concept of EFCA to us.
The initial design of Eddie E. coli, the protagonist of our game Plasmid Archives.
Our first attempt at trying to make the concept of EFCA easy to understand for the general public. It was not easy to understand.
A screenshot of our promotion video with the automatically generated subtitles. The subtitles were in some sort of pseudo-Finnish.
A revised sketch depicting the control and the actual test EFCAs.
A sketch depicting our idea for a heterogeneous assay.
A five-leaf clover found in the morning of our first ever wet lab day.
Two of our lab team members photographed through a SDS-PAGE gel.
A group pic taken at the Turku City Library event.
Sometimes, being a lab buddy means holding a tube so your partner can pipette more easily.
One of our many mind maps in progress.
Us posing next to poster that has things that motivate us about iGEM written on it.
Our motivation poster
A pipetting chart containing instructions for two 96-plates.
One of our lab member depicting the ideal pipetting posture for ultimate precision.
While coding our game Plasmid Archives, we had some issues with coding the plasmids.
Setting up our "green screen" for promotion video.
Promotion video behind the scenes: RS3885 in the making.
Printing stickers for events.
A conclusion we came to while playing Jackbox games during one of our hang-outs.
Our mascot Tempus spying on people on our wiki.
One of the ABOA 2025 cats, Tofu, showcasing admirable work morale.
The plate reader complained about receiving too much light during our luminescence measurements so we covered it with a trash bag.
Being in the lab often means having to stand around and do nothing while your samples are in the centrifuge.
A visual result of the hemoglobin-HSA separation protocol.
Good lab practice includes calibrating your equipment. Pipette calibration in progress.
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
A pic of the lab breakroom fridge
One of the lab team members focused in their work.
Prepping for the Heureka event
While in Heureka, we also went full tourist mode and enjoyed the exhibitions.
Tubes on a tube roller during IMAC batch spin purification protocol. It reminded us of hotdogs.
A group pic taken during a lab team meeting.
Lab work requires strong pipetting muscles and trained eye.
Yay, even more pipetting!
Making transformation plates
Pouring plates
Nb29-SmBit plate made from a glycerol prep
Our project required a lot of spectrophotometric measurements.
Finnish summer nights are often called nightless. Still, it wasn't totally unusual to leave the lab so late to see a sunset.
Explaining protocols to each other is of utmost importance!
People busy in the lab.
A pic taken through a LA plate
A pic taken through a LA plate
A pic taken through a LA plate
A happy wet labber
A virus made by a child during our Heureka workshop. Unfortunately, many of us caught actual viruses at Heureka as well and got sick after the event.
ABOA members at NiC (Nordic iGEM Conference).
The other ABOA 2025 cat, Ralli, helping with wiki coding.