Asia Teachers Workshop/Team reports

Kyoto University

 * Team introductions: 10 students from freshman undergrad to masters from different sciences
 * Perhaps a team of bacteria can join iGEM someday
 * Got students by advertising in labs and posting posters

Istanbul

 * Koch University
 * Heard about synbio from Richard Newton; heard about iGEM from Randy's talk in Spain
 * 6 faculty members from ee, cs, chemeng, bioeng
 * Recruited students from other universities via a summer research program
 * 10 students
 * Will start experiments July 1
 * Might be just software or just wetware or both

Tokyo Tech

 * Returning team
 * $5000 scholarship established
 * 8 student members, 2 grad students
 * Project: bacteria producing wind power??
 * Kiga lab funding and scholarship

Chiba

 * Returning team
 * 8 members

University of Hong Kong

 * 7 undergrads, 2 postgrad advisors, biochem, bionformatics, bioeng, chem
 * working on getting financial support

Tsinghua

 * Second year team
 * Started in Dec 2007
 * Have a synbio association (40 people) where they got the students - competed to get a spot on the team (10 students)
 * Possible projects: chemotaxis, metastasis of cancer cells,
 * Univ dept support team financially
 * Lab space in EE dept

Beijing Normal University

 * Heard about iGEM from Tsinghua/Peking Univ.
 * Dean showed great interest and supported financially
 * 7 student members: different schools bio, environmental tech, cs, chem (some other universities too)

NYMMU-Taipei

 * Second year team
 * Center for Sys and SynBio
 * Part of the Genome Engineering lab
 * Came up with >30 different ideas
 * Started early- in March. Had weekly meetings.
 * Project: remove toxic waste from kidney failure patients
 * Separating into 7 different parts that will then be combined
 * More than 20 people (out of 50 applicants - mostly because of gold medal last year)
 * University is providing funding