Team:SEU/Collaborations

Collaboration

As a competition encouraging cooperation, our team has established a partnership with the team Nanjing-China from Nanjing University and team SEU-Nanjing-China from Southeast University. We often exchange ideas on research with them. With mutual help, we improved our professionalism and promoted friendship with other teams.

In this year, Nanjing-China has mainly developed a simple solo medium copy plasmid-based polyphosphate kinase (PPK1) overexpression strategy for achieving maximum intracellular polyphosphate accumulation by environmental bacteria. The team SEU gives the views on data modeling, including data fitting for the overall process and solving differential equations for bacterial concentration changes. SEU helps to propose a curve of the concentration of bacteria in the whole process of absorbing and releasing phosphorus and the concentration of elements in the solution. Finally, two teams exchange opinions on the selection of variables and fitting parameters.

At the same time, SEU’s project focuses on the experiment based on DNA to achieve molecular calculations, which is a promising emerging technology. In the seminar between SEU and Nanjing-China, members of two teams discuss the engineering ethics behind this technology and analyze how genetic engineering technology changes society. At the same time, molecular computational techniques with high parallelism and recognition capabilities in chemical reactions are discussed.

The cooperation with SEU-Nanjing-China is also valuable. Meetings were held in May when we had a discussion with them. During the competition, we share resources with them, and they provide useful suggestions on our experiment design.

The teams also cooperate in other areas such as the collaboration on team Wikis, the design of team clothing and logo, the airfare, and accommodation arrangements. The cooperations with Nanjing-China and SEU-Nanjing-China are enjoyable and rewarding. We hope that we can continue to cooperate in the iGEM competition with them next year.