Collaboration with Stony Brook University (SBU) iGEM
We started collaborating with the StonyBrook ProS team as we realized that both our teams are very excited about introducing synthetic biology to our communities, especially to a younger audience. After the initial meeting, we decided to collaborate on writing an activity and coloring book to introduce young children to foundational aspects of biology. We scheduled regular meetings from July to October to work on the book. Our team created interactive educational activities meant to introduce young readers to core biological concepts such as cells and DNA, while SBU illustrated the cover and the coloring pages in the book. Additionally, we also included information about synthetic biology as well as a short description of each team’s projects at the end of the book.
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Collaboration with Lund iGEM
The Lund Beecilli iGEM team reached out to us via the Global Slack channel after one of their team members posted a question about integrating Shiny-R modelling into the wiki. They were having the same issue and wanted to work on the model together with our team. Therefore, both our teams decided to collaborate on programming our wiki pages.
Our team showed the Lund team how to build the wiki locally on their devices instead of the global iGEM server, which helped them make the process faster and more efficient. The Lund team also showed us a JavaScript code of the model that worked for them. We also designed the accordions and carousels graphics that their team displays on their wiki. They also helped us design the headers which we adapted for our pages. Overall, we both contributed to each others’ wiki designs and programming.
Collaboration with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU-Israel) iGEM
We contacted the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU-Israel) iGEM team after discovering that they are also on working detecting amino acids from the global Slack channel. Although they were working on a diagnostic project while we were working with the food item that inspired the name for the disease, we believe that amino acid detection is a great avenue that the two teams can collaborate on. We offered them advice regarding designing enzyme binding assays, which helped them better design their biosensor. They sent us the scientific papers that they used to base their glucometer design on, which helped us a lot with regards to prototyping our glucometer device.
