Throughout the competition, we are honoured to have collaborated with four other iGEM teams, with one of these collaborations still ongoing, as well as many other notable scientists outside of iGEM. Details about the collaborations and what we have done for them are listed below and on the respective team pages linked to the title of each section.
Fig. Cb.1: LEFT: Excerpt of original text in English; RIGHT: Excerpt of translated text in Traditional Chinese.
This year, as part of an education outreach project, members of iGEM Team Bielefeld-CeBiTec have collected interesting questions related to synthetic biology from local children and have created a mini-podcast series "Ask Nici" in response.
Members of our team have collaborated with the team by providing translations to these questions and answers in Traditional and Simplified Chinese. The full document (with translations to other world languages) may be viewed here.
The blog "The Transcriptome" was launched jointly by iGEM Team Chalmers-Gothenburg 2020 and iGEM Team Lausanne 2020, and its main goal is to "share and exchange scientific information and technological news, explain controversial topics,"[1] and to allow science "[to] become [more] accessible even if [readers] have no scientific background."[1]
Members of our team got in touch with iGEM Team Chalmers-Gothenburg 2021 after they had called for volunteers for writing blog posts, as well as helping with translating these posts into many of the worlds languages.
Fig. Cb.2: Article[2] written by one of our members on The Transcriptome, a blog dedicated to sharing science.
Our team strongly believes that for synthetic biology to be able to truly exert its influence in the real world, education is one of the many important methods to increase public awareness on advances made by the field. The Transcriptome's easy-going nature is perfect in assisting this process.
One of our team members have written an article on the subject of osteogenesis imperfecta, one of the main foci of our project, and our team has also provided Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese translations to this article, along with others already on the site as well.
Fig. Cb.3: Tentative design for the cover page of "A Beginners Guide to Synthetic Biology".
We are collaborating with Team IISER Bhopal to create "A Beginners Guide to Synthetic Biology", a workbook designed for for high-school and undergraduate students interested in the field of synthetic biology, and to increase general awareness of the field and its many potential applications in our world. Our team has also been involved in educating high-school students in the field via hosting many workshops as well, and our team members were quite thrilled to see others who are interested in a common cause as well.
Currently, the workbook is still in progress. Currently, there are many more iGEM teams working on this project as well, and we envision to be able to finish and publish this workbook before the end of the year, in time for the next iGEM season.
Fig. Cb.4: Presentation slides of the symposium.
Our team members have joined the Sepsis Awareness Symposium, organised by iGEM Team Rochester "BioSpire". The symposium covered topics about the diagnostics and treatment of sepsis, and complications faced by medical professionals when working with potentially septic patients.
The symposium aims to promote awareness of sepsis to students, professors, faculty and the general public by educating about the condition, the consequences of misdiagnosis, and the need for a more accurate, quick diagnosis and more effective treatment.
After joining the symposium, our team members have gained a substantial understanding on the diagnosis, treatment and a plethora of information on sepsis, as well as the details of team Rochester's project in the iGEM competition.
In addition to the collaborations listed above, our team also sought the professional advice and worked with many of the world's top scientists in the field of synthetic biology, including:
Fig. Cb.5: Scientists we have collaborated with throughout the course of the project.
[1] "The idea & us",The Transcriptome. [2] Keung F (2021). "Osteogenesis Imperfecta: the Incurable Disorder".The Transcriptome.
