Collaborations

Beijing-Tianjin iGEM Alliance Establishing Conference & Meet-up

On Sep 16th , UCAS-China team invited other 5 iGEM teams to Institute of Biophysics (IBP, CAS) and held a meet-up. It’s also the first conference of Beijing-Tianjin iGEM Alliance, which established under the advocation of UCAS-China team and supported by other member teams, including BNU-China, NKU_CHINA, TJU_China , Tsinghua, TUST_China. Thanks for TUST_China as the co-organizer of the conference.

To promote the communication and collaboration between iGEM teams from Beijing and Tianjin, we UCAS-China team brought up the idea of establishing the Beijing-Tianjin iGEM Alliance. Gladly, our idea was responded positively. TUST_China cooperated with us to contacted other 5 teams, including BNU-China, NKU_CHINA, TJU_China , Tsinghua, and on Sep 16th , we UCAS-China team invited other 5 iGEM teams to Institute of Biophysics (IBP, CAS) and held a meet-up, also to discuss the current and future collaboration between member teams of this brand new Beijing-Tianjin iGEM Alliance.

Firstly, we have a roundtable discussion. We discussed many topics, included but more than:

1.The continuation of Beijing-Tianjin iGEM Alliance

2.The efficient methods of resource sharing, such as equipment and reagent

3.The cooperation of holding influential HP activities together

4.The cooperation of consulting with the experts or companies relating to law, ethics and other aspects.

After, each team presented a small souvenir as the symbol of their team, put it into the collection case we UCAS-China prepared for this conference. We UCAS-China team, as the advocator of this alliance and the organizer of this meet-up, were going to keep it for the following year and give it to the host team of next year’s conference then.

After a short break, six teams gave presentation of their project, shared ideas and opinions. We invited Dr. Liu from IBP and our advisor also a former iGEMer, Meng Fankang to give advice and guide.

Thanks for all the teams attended as well as the support and engagement of all the iGEMers from 6 teams BNU-China, NKU_CHINA, TJU_China, Tsinghua, TUST_China and UCAS-China.

Which other teams can we work with?

You can work with any other team in the competition, including software, hardware, high school and other tracks. You can also work with non-iGEM research groups, but they do not count towards the iGEM team collaboration silver medal criterion.

In order to meet the silver medal criteria on helping another team, you must complete this page and detail the nature of your collaboration with another iGEM team.

Here are some suggestions for projects you could work on with other teams:

Improve the function of another team's BioBrick Part or Device
Characterize another team's part
Debug a construct
Model or simulate another team's system
Test another team's software
Help build and test another team's hardware project
Mentor a high-school team