Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai (ICT Mumbai)

We partnered with iGEM Team ICT Mumbai on improving the presentation of our project on our website and in the modelling aspects, regarding the screening and docking of aptamers with our target protein. Our partnership with the team during the project helped us finish the milestones we planned. We helped them with developing their wiki. We had brainstorming sessions on how to design responsive layouts for the wiki page and include dynamic elements, along with better loading animation of the content for the web pages. They helped us gain insights into new modelling techniques and tools for the structure prediction of DNA aptamers. They offered to help spread our survey to areas local to their institute and help us garner responses from a larger demographic. We offered to spread their questionnaire regarding the 5 'UTR libraries amongst our faculty and research fellows.

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM)

IISER TVM has been very instrumental in supporting our project throughout the journey of iGEM. Starting with the All India iGEM Meet (AIIM), IISER TVM has maintained steady relations with us by collaborating to conduct an extremely informative talk series on Women’s Health, called We-Talk. In addition, they have helped us spread the knowledge regarding synthetic biology by helping us develop games and fun, interactive quizzes to reach out to local schools and institutes.

Apart from the events, IISER TVM has also helped us workout the logistics of the registration of our team to the Grand Jamboree by providing the details of the bank account as well as helping us smoothen the invoice details in order for us to pay the fees on time. We are extremely grateful to have them as our partner and we look forward to collaborating with them in future iGEM competitions too.