Team:Yonsei Korea/Collaborations

IGEM_YONSEI

Introducing:

Our Team

COLLABORATION
1. MIT_MAHE (India)        
  1. : Characterize another team's part
    1. a. Track: Food & Nutrition
    2. b. Contact: @manipalbiomachines (IG)
    3. c. Project description
      1. i. Project title: Cell-tinel
      2. ii. Background: Pests, especially a pest called Stem Borer, are harming rice plantations in India, but unsustainable methods are used to treat pests.
        1. 1. The pest called Stem Borer causes a 20% loss in yield in early crops and an 80% loss in yield in late crops.
        2. 2. Currently, pesticides or manual labor to remove the pests.
      3. iii. MIT_MAHE is trying to establish a proof of concept to develop a safe, sustainable method to control pests. They want to make a modular process that allows a pest-crop pair to be identified and solve the problem using an endophytic delivery system with bacteria indigenous to the pest and crop and a way of eliminating the pest.
      4. iv. How to characterize: Through zoom meetings, we have discussed pests. As our team was working on a similar topic, we shared the technologies that could be potentially used during the project and even post-iGEM.
2. IGEM.BIELEFELD (Germany)        
  1. : Characterize another team's part by translating their project
    1. a. Track: New Application
    2. b. Education Project
    3. c. Contact @igem.bielefeld (IG)
    4. d. Project description
      1. i. This team was collecting interesting science questions from children (e.g., “What is DNA?”, “What are bacteria?”, “What is a PCR-test?”) and wanted to answer them in a mini-podcast series. Also, this team will be creating a pdf document with a collection of all the questions.
    5. e. How to characterize this team’s project: At the moment, the questions are being answered in German and English. Thus, our team will translate the questions into Korean.
3. KOREA_HS (Korea)        
  1. : Mentoring a high school team
    1. a. Track: High School
    2. b. Contact: igem2021_koreahs (IG)
    3. c. Project description
      1. i. This team is working on cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) research and wants to design a cancer-specific cell-penetrating peptide for the efficient delivery of siRNA into cancer cells.
    4. d. How to mentor this team: As this team was competing from a high school background and our team is from Yonsei University, we provided valuable insights and feedback about undergraduate university research.
YONSEI_KOREA 2021

Yonsei_Korea is a convergent team of students based in Seoul, South Korea striving to create meaningful change utilizing synthtic biology in the iGEM 2021 Competition.