Team:Hong Kong HKU/Collaborations
Collaborations
Mentoring Local High School iGEM Team
This is the first time S.K.H Li Ping Secondary School is participating in the iGEM Competition. A collaboration visit was carried out in March with S.K.H Li Ping Secondary School, where we had a meet-and-greet session with students and exchanged basic knowledge about synthetic biology, iGEM, and our projects. It was a great opportunity to witness young bright minds keen on tackling real-life scientific problems. A second visit was carried out in April in the form of a workshop, where we taught the students on the basics of DNA and DNA nanotechnology, as well as extracting their own DNA using everyday commodities such as salt and meat tenderizer.
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Presentations and talks
Talks given in the high school to teach them about synthetic biology, genetic engineering and DNA nanotechnology .
Workshops
Our team members teaching students about DNA extraction using kitchen reagents
Teaching
Workshops at the high schools.
Project Collaboration with High School
Due to a shortage of certain equipment in the high school we helped to produce the plasmid for the submitting their device onto the registry. The transformation, cloning and miniprep extraction of their desired plasmid insert was conducted by our team. It was a great learning opportunity for us to learn about their project and design. This collaboration allowed us to advise the school about how to make more stable designs. Despite it being arduous to finish the submission of both our team’s and the high school's, we believed that it was essential that the fantastic designs generated by the school reach safely to the iGEM foundation.
University Collaboration
In emphasizing the ‘I’ in the iGEM, we have been very active in seeking collaborations among local institutes as well as international ones. We are delighted to announce that our Team organized a Biosafety Sharing Session in August, featuring members (both team project leaders and members alike) from all Hong Kong iGEM University and High School Teams, namely, HKUST, CUHK, UCCKE, LPSS, in addition to the SUSTech iGEM 2017 team from Shenzhen, the first ever in Hong Kong.
During this sharing session, all iGEM teams presented their projects and exchanged ideas. We were also enlightened by Ms. Maria Li, one of the Co-Founders of the Biohack organization DIYBIO HK, who gave us an informative talk on how we can uphold biosafety in both university and high school laboratory environments. The sharing session was, without doubt, a huge success.
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Discussions
Our team member discussing the scope of the biosafety meeting and what we would like to achieve through this meetup
Group Photo !
We are delighted to announce that our Team organized a Biosafety Sharing Session in August, featuring members (both team project leaders and members alike) from all Hong Kong iGEM University and High School Teams, namely, HKUST, CUHK, UCCKE, LPSS, in addition to the SUSTech iGEM 2017 team from Shenzhen, the first ever in Hong Kong.
Sharing sessions
Each team was asked to share ideas about their project and discuss the various safety issues regarding their design and experiments.
Presentation by DIYBIO
During this sharing session, all iGEM teams presented their projects and exchanged ideas. We were also enlightened by Ms. Maria Li, one of the Co-Founders of the Biohack organization DIYBIO HK, who gave us an informative talk on how we can uphold biosafety in both university and high school laboratory environments.
Professor Talk
We would like to thank our PI Dr. Tanner for providing critique and feedback each of the presentations made by the iGEM teams and further discussing the future and the importance of biosafety in his talk.
