Team:SBS NY/Collaborations
Collaborations
ShanghaiTech_China
https://2019.igem.org/Team:ShanghaiTech_China/CollaborationsWe collaborated with the 2019 iGEM collegiate team ShanghaiTech_China during the competition. In fact, our 2018 iGEM team at the Stony Brook School collaborated with the same university’s iGEM team: ShanghaiTech 2018. ShanghaiTech_China addresses the issue of diabetes, by using an intestinal probiotic that can ultimately increase the insulin level in the body, which in turn can effectively cope with type II diabetes. The goal of our project, apparently, differs a lot from theirs. Yet studying and living in the USA, we realize that type II diabetes is so common here in the states due to people’s everyday diets. We find it potentially very helpful to bring ShanghaiTech_China’s ideas to more people here in the country, and therefore help more people who have type II know more about what the team has been working on and its effectiveness in treating their type II diabetes. We planned to bring ShanghaiTech’s idea into, first, our school community, and then to a larger population if doable. Meanwhile, ShanghaiTech will help us spread our ideas and project in China, where many places are experiencing the issue of soil pollution by heavy metals, especially those cities that rely mainly on industrial production that could release a humongous amount of heavy metal pollutants into the soil. We hoped that more people in China can get to know our ideas and our designed prototypes, and we found ShanghaiTech, which came to our mind first when it came to collaboration, our excellent helper.
Shanghai-United
https://2019.igem.org/Team:Shanghai-United/CollaborationsBecause a few of Shanghai-United team members are from the same school as the SBS_NY team, the two teams managed to establish collaboration in both dry and wet labs. "SBS_NY" members have a lot of experience related to how to construct a plasmid with different chimeric parts connected to each other. So the two teams talked about the mechanism of molecular cloning and how to make genetic engineering effective enough. SBS_NY addressed to several technical issues asked by Shanghai-United such as how to optimize PCR success rates. Meanwhile, Shanghai-United has pointed out that SBS_NY team could improve their project by researching more about the real soil pollution situation, and suggested several ways that SBS_NY could accomplish that goal, such as interviewing a few environmental professor or conducting field research in different polluted area. Shanghai also suggested to SBS_NY that a more detailed characterization of how the method will work under various soil types and conditions could be applied to make the method more appealing. Both teams have learned a lot from each other.