While both the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have sent multiple teams to participate in iGEM over the years, most of the interactions have been informal and ad hoc. For the first time, in 2018, Singapore has three iGEM teams participating in this year competition. The three teams that will be representing Singapore this year: NTU-Singapore, NUS Singapore-A (NUS Engineering) and the last being ourselves.
As part of the networking and to foster collaboration, the NUS Singapore-Science iGEM team initiated and hosted an iGEM Singapore 2018 Meet-up on June, 2018. We invited team from NUS Engineering and NTU to come over and mingle with our team over light refreshment. After some friendly chat over pizza kindly provided by NUS Singapore-A, we got down to serious discussion during which we discussed about our projects and possible areas of collaboration in human practices, modelling as well as wet lab. While the vastly different projects we have committed ourselves to made modelling and wet lab collaborations difficult, some possible points of collaboration was suggested in the human practices side.
All in all, this iGEM Singapore Meet-up allowed all of us to get a sense of what the other teams' projects were about, and have fruitful discussion on areas where we could help each other. We hope to continue this meet-up over the following years, as we expect more and more teams to represent Singapore in iGEM.
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− | While both the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have sent multiple teams to participate in iGEM over the years, most of the interactions have been informal and ad hoc. For the first time, in 2018, Singapore has three iGEM teams participating in this year competition. The three teams that will be representing Singapore this year: | + | While both the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have sent multiple teams to participate in iGEM over the years, most of the interactions have been informal and ad hoc. For the first time, in 2018, Singapore has three iGEM teams participating in this year competition. The three teams that will be representing Singapore this year: NTU-Singapore, NUS Singapore-A (NUS Engineering) and the last being ourselves. <br><br> |
− | As part of the networking and to foster collaboration, the NUS Singapore-Science iGEM team initiated and hosted an iGEM Singapore 2018 Meet-up on June, 2018. We invited team from | + | As part of the networking and to foster collaboration, the NUS Singapore-Science iGEM team initiated and hosted an iGEM Singapore 2018 Meet-up on June, 2018. We invited team from NUS Engineering and NTU to come over and mingle with our team over light refreshment. After some friendly chat over pizza kindly provided by NUS Singapore-A, we got down to serious discussion during which we discussed about our projects and possible areas of collaboration in human practices, modelling as well as wet lab. While the vastly different projects we have committed ourselves to made modelling and wet lab collaborations difficult, some possible points of collaboration was suggested in the human practices side. <br><br> |
All in all, this iGEM Singapore Meet-up allowed all of us to get a sense of what the other teams' projects were about, and have fruitful discussion on areas where we could help each other. We hope to continue this meet-up over the following years, as we expect more and more teams to represent Singapore in iGEM. | All in all, this iGEM Singapore Meet-up allowed all of us to get a sense of what the other teams' projects were about, and have fruitful discussion on areas where we could help each other. We hope to continue this meet-up over the following years, as we expect more and more teams to represent Singapore in iGEM. |
Revision as of 07:44, 15 October 2018
Collaborations
Host of iGEM Singapore 2018 Meet Up
Translations Collaboration
We also helped multiple teams with translating their Human Practice documents and videos to other languages to further help their outreach. Below are the teams we collaborated with.
Team Washington
Team Washington produced a booklet which taught the basics of synthetic biology to those not familiar in the area. Among the topics they presented was on the CRISPR-Cas system, which we found relevant to our project. We provided the Vietnamese translation for the above-mentioned section.
Team IIT-Madras
Team IIT-Madras produced a series of videos explaining the basics of cellular systems. We helped translate and record the Korean version of one of their videos.
Team OUC-China
Team OUC-China produced a short but well-done comic which explained the basics of proteins and their uses. We helped proof-read and provided a English fix for them.