Collaborations
Collaborations among iGEM teams are one of the essential parts in Human Practices, for we have become companions with other iGEMers because of the reciprocal interactions. This year, we have done some collaborations including experience assistance, mentoring a new team.
Experience assistance
Distribution kit
NTHU_Taiwan iGEM team
We provided NTHU_Taiwan iGEM team with BBa_B0012.
(NTHU linker)
Mingdao
We sent the biobricks BBa_K1694002, BBa_K1694010, BBa_K1694035, BBa_K1694044 and BBa_K1694045, which was registry by 2015 NCTU_Formosa, to help them express the outer membrane protein.
(Mingdao linker)
NCKU_Tainan
This year, it is the first time for NCKU_Tainan to participate in Giant Jamboree. Therefore, we provided them with the Part BBa_K861171, BBa_I712667, BBa_I712015, BBa_R0010, BBa_R0040, BBa_C0040, BBa_C0051, BBa_C0061, BBa_C0062, BBa_R0065, BBa_K592009 and BBa_R0052 to them.
(NCKU_Tainan linker)
Provided larvae by NYMU-Taipei
We are thankful to NYMU iGEM team for providing us the eggs of tobacco cutworms. For our insect test, we needed a great number of larvae to do the experiment. Additionally, they introduce the professor Hwang, who majors in agricultural science, and gave us advice in our insect test. We really appreciate the help of NTMU-Taipei.
Mentoring a new team
National Taichung First Senior High School
Learning about iGEM Competition
Concept of Synthetic Biology
Basic knowledge of Synthetic Biology
Basic Mathematical Modelling
Laboratory Practice
Project Brainstorming
Presentation Skill Guidance
This summer, fourteen high school students in science class from National Taichung First Senior High School came to National Chiao Tung University to learn about iGEM. In the two-weeks workshop, they have learned a lot of basic concepts of synthetic biology associated with laboratory practices. Furthermore, they were grouped into two teams and assigned to acquire ideas and knowledge from 2015 high school team’s wikis. It not only broadened their horizons but sorted out their thoughts through the presentation.
See Education for the workshop we are planning on.
On the last day of the workshop, each group presented their own project, which contained brainstorming, principles, and experimental designs. Their projects were creative, and yet there is still room for the more rigorous thinking. Through a series of compact training, we believe that they will be a competent high school team in the future iGEM competition.
National Chung Cheng University
Experience sharing of founding an iGEM team
Teaching Demonstration
How do Write Biobrick Sequences
Details of Biobrick construction
This year, the student leader of National Chung Cheng University came to National Chiao Tung University to learn about the experience of establishing a new team. We exchanged the experience of team operation and academic advice. Besides, she also joined the two-week workshop with students from National Taichung First Senior High School. National Chung Cheng University will establish its first team next year. We are glad to have another companion in Taiwan.
