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Asia Teachers Workshop/Team reports
From 2008.igem.org
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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
