Team:SHSID/Collaborations
Collaboration
Overview
Our collaboration mainly settled in two major events — a global SDG(sustainable
development goals)
conference with various iGEM teams hosted by Taipei American School and a one-to-one wet team collaboration
with Fujian_United team.
SDG Conference
SDG Zoom Meeting with other global iGEM teams
Sample Slide of Our Presentation
During the online conference, we presented how our project would fit into the realm of sustainable
development while focusing on our target of good health and well being(which belongs to subgoal 3.B). We
broke down our presentation into three interviews, covering a Sinphar Atropin Eyedrop user, a Phenobaribital
and Scopolamine Hydrobromide Tablets user for anti-car sickness, and an Arrhythemia patient. All of our
interviewees rely on atropine related products illustrating the wide-range utility of our product and its
potential to contribute to sustainable developments.
We collaborated with another 2021 iGEM team, Alpha-LUCO
(Official Team Name: Fujian_United). Their team members is mainly made up with high school students around
China, especially in Southeastern provinces. They chose to study the feasibility of optimizing ethanol
production by developing a gene-edited Saccharomyces cerevisiae functional in self-secreting glucoamylase
while keeping the same fermentation capacity.
We mainly discussed two core topics in the meet-up:
1) Design of peripheral goods and related pricing strategy. Since we have started our project earlier than Alpha-LUCO, we shared some useful experience in planning dry group activities with them, especially about how to design a peripheral product list and what factors should be included in product pricing. We suggested team Alpha-LUCO that since peripheral goods would be mainly used for fundraising, they may make the pricing strategy from clients’ psychological perspective.
1) Design of peripheral goods and related pricing strategy. Since we have started our project earlier than Alpha-LUCO, we shared some useful experience in planning dry group activities with them, especially about how to design a peripheral product list and what factors should be included in product pricing. We suggested team Alpha-LUCO that since peripheral goods would be mainly used for fundraising, they may make the pricing strategy from clients’ psychological perspective.
2) Experiments on Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The chassis used in our project is
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same as team Alpha-LUCO’s. Therefore, we shared some experiment experience
with their team members, especially about experiment planning and related experiment habits. We believed
that this experience-sharing would help team Alpha-LUCO better proceed with their project.
