Team:Peshawar/Collaborations
Collaborations
Being the first and the only iGEM team from Pakistan, we found the collaborative aspect of iGEM to be very effective. While many teams were willing to guide us through iGEM, we shared our experiences and insights we had developed for being the country's first players. The truly international nature of iGEM made it possible to across cultural and geographical borders and made science an ambassador in international relations.
User testing Team IIT Madras's Codonut App
The team belonging to Indian Institute of Technology, Madaras had built an app Codonut for mobile operating systems that explained codon optimization in a fun and interactive way. In order to support and further improve this project, we referred this app to our followers to provide IIT with quality feedback. This was appreciated by IIT Madaras as it helped them understand the end-user's experience.
Spreading surveys for Team NCTU Formosa
An iGEM team from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan worked on farmer friendly project that tried to reduce the use of dangerous chemical pesticides. Realizing the importance of public awareness and to promote the acceptance of genetic engineering as an alternative tool, we spread their survey that explained the dangers chemical pesticides pose to the health and environment, and their project that provides an ecofriendly alternative.
Spreading surveys for Team Tec Chihuahua
Our collaboration with Tec Chihuahua from Mexico involved human practice activities. We offered our social media platforms to get responses on the surveys they were conducting. The survey was targeted at general public and centered around the concerns and issues relating to Synthetic Biology as perceived by common people.
Spreading surveys for Team IIT Kharagpur India
Our collaboration with them included Skype sessions. We shared insights about effective human practices. We disseminated their survey that sought to understand the perception of Synthetic Biology among general public of this region. We discussed construct designs and exchanged thoughts on improving it.
Team XMU China
XMU China is a team from Xiamen University. We were fascinated by their project idea that dealt with antibiotic resistance. Since a lack of public awareness plays a key role in exacerbating this problem, we helped them gather data about public knowledge and experiences related to antibiotic use.
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Institute of Integrative Biosciences,
CECOS University of IT & Emerging Sciences,
Phase 6, F-5, Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
iib@cecos.edu.pk
+92 91 5860291
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