Collaborations

Collaboration with NTHU-Taiwan

Collaboration Emphasis: Human Practices and Dry Lab work

NTHU iGEM team’s detection method for EDCs in water is a different aspect of addressing water contamination. In the collaboration between the Taiwan and American team, we were able to help each other survey American’s opinion and knowledge on EDCs as well as Taiwanese’s knowledge on bacteriophages and their opinion in regard to E. coli contamination. With their help on designing our 3-D model system, we were able to use one of the software programs that they suggested and designed a 3-D model of our water test kit. We improved each other’s project based on these collaboration experiences, and it was a pleasure to work with them!

Response :Combined Detection

iGEM WLC aims to detect E.coli in water while our team’s goal is to detect the EDCs in water. Because we both focus on water quality, we’ve planned to achieve a multiple detection integration that has the ability to detect various pollution, like a Swiss Knife with many functions! However, it would be very struggling for them to build up a detecting equipment and a 3-D model because of a lack of an engineering expert in their team. Fortunately, both of our team focused on quantifiers, so it would be more convenient to transfer our technique. For the 3-D modeling, we had gone through the software composition and made our own model. Based on experience, we could also associate them to learn the original model construction method.

Asia Pacific Conference

Host team: NCTU_Formosa

Participating teams:

NTHU_Taiwan, TCFSH_Taiwan, NCHU, CSMU_NCHU¬_Taiwan, NCKU_Tainan, CCU_Taiwan, CGU_Taiwan, NYMU_Taipei, TAS_Taipei, Mingdao, SJTU_Software, Shanghaitech, USTC, USTC_Software, BNU_China, SCUT_FSE_CHINA, NAU_CHINA, Fudan_China, HUST_China, XMU_China, Kyoto, WLC_Milwaukee.

During the conference, the participating teams gave and exchanged ideas during the poster and the presentation section. We improved each other’s projects based on their suggestions. It was especially valuable to be able to collaborate and also get to know iGEMers in different regions of the world. We were able to exchange issues that each team faced in designing their projects, as well as help them resolve these issues.