Team:IIT-Madras/Collaborations
Paris Bettencourt
We helped iGEM team Paris Bettencourt procure untreated unbleached cotton fabric(khadi cloth from some local suppliers) for their project.
HKUST
We also had a Skype chat and helped team Hong Kong HKUST with a modelling aspect of their project. We performed a mathematical analysis on the tristable system model, and revealed a surprising behaviour of the tristable switch – oscillation occurs in specific conditions. We first developed a Boolean model and first proved the existence of oscillation performed by the tristable system. A more detailed model based on ordinary differential equations was formulated to further characterise the oscillatory behaviour of the system. This further confines the conditions at which oscillation occurs as well as identifying the parameters controlling the magnitude of the oscillation. A report of our contribution to their project can be found here.
iGEM Peshawar
iGEM team Peshawar was kind enough to publicise our game and give us valuable feedback on how we could improve the game, and thus make it a better educational tool. You can view their abridged report here
iGEM Meetups
We participated in two Indian iGEM meetups. One of them was conducted by SVCE Chennai team. Nitish and Venkat went to attend the meetup, held at their college. This meetup was attended by IISc Banglore team as well. All three teams presented their project to the audience, which was followed by audience questions. This event gave us a very good opportunity to share our ideas and experience regarding lab work, human practices and collaborations. We had a lot of fun presenting our respective projects and interacting with the other teams who attended(IISC Bangalore and SVCE Chennai). After this meet up, we agreed to send some important biobrick parts to each other to help validate our projects.
We thank SVCE for their help in characterising one of our parts. In return we helped in characterising one of their parts as well.
