Team:Gifu/Collaborations
iGEM Kyoto
We had a meetup with Team Kyoto. Ryo NIWA, a leader of our team went to Kyoto as a representative of team Gifu. We discussed the progress of the projects and some iGEM regulations. At that time, iGEM Kyoto provided us with KELN, a software which automatically translates a lab notebook into html. With the system, we made a calendar and some tables of components of media for cell growth. In return we offered feedback to team Kyoto about software KELN. Even though you don’t know about html, you can use KELN and make some figures for wikis. It is completely workable for anyone and highly recommended to use. Thank you to iGEM Kyoto and Dr. Woltjen, secondary PI of the team.
iGEM East Japan Meetup 2018
We participated in iGEM East Japan Meetup 2018 on August 8 at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Gifu, Bochan Lab., KAIT Japan, Tokyo-Tech and ASIJ (High School team) got together, and each team gave presentations about our provisional projects and team management. After that, we exchanged opinions and gave some advice to each other. For example, we asked why they chose that method of experiments. We also discussed the future work of projects for the coming Giant Jamboree. We were inspired a lot by knowing innovative research projects and views of other teams.
iGEM Botchan_lab tokyo
We kept contact with iGEM Botchan-Lab this year since iGEM East Asia Meetup occured. They introduced us their project showing us a PDF file (You can download the file from . Their project may lead to a solution of food crisis from the viewpoint of Nitrogen fixation. They said that if E.coli can synthesize amino acid by taking in nitrogen gas from the air as a part of our intestinal flora, malnutrition can be solved much easier. Considering this project, we offered a scientific article written by our PI, Prof. Iwahashi. Since he used to research nitrogen fixation before. They also taught us the methods of cloning. They constructed really large plasmids and we asked for the advice from them. Sadly, we could not make them this year but still it was totally helpful for us.