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From 2012.igem.org

Collaboration Meetings

June 25th: Calgary Skype

What University of Calgary Team is doing: continuing of their last year's project, try to build a biosensor to detect the toxin in the tailing pond, and possibly build a bioreactor to treat it, and potentially converting the wastes into usable hydrocarbons, and they are using dsz gene to take out the sulphur in the reactor.

Areas we can collaborate on:

1. Kill Switches

• Calgary's kill switches are heading towards chemical induced ones
• Ours are focusing on Communities based ones now
• Possible options for DNA induced ones
• Jacob is researching more about temperature regulated kill switches
• Together, both team will design the best kill switch ever!

2. Human Practice

• Calgary is thinking about doing a video game for now
• We are thinking about IP outreach, and can potentially conduct some interviews on IP trouble shooting ideas

3. Modelling

• Calgary is focusing on the bioreactor reactor environment in a tar sand plant, which is of our interest as well

Next Meeting: June 28th, 3pm, Location: TBA

Note: this is what I personally got out of the meeting, please modify or correct me if I am wrong

-Ruichen

June 29th: Calgary Skype

• Bioreactors is probably something we can't collaborate on.
• They've ordered some Keio knockouts from Japan, we might be able to order some through them if we need to.
• They're developing some novel killswitches and would like to collaborate on a standardized killswitch assay.
• Calgary is willing to be guinea pigs for our IP survey.
• Advice
  • Wiki should read like a textbook and take you from 0 knowledge.
  • For contacting government, try talking to your MP.
• Our IP Human Practices Idea
  • A protein-coding DNA sequence is patented. Can one e. coli optimize and change one amino acid to avoid trouble?
  • Patents are national, but the iGEM and the Parts Registry are international. How does all of that interact? Will the Registry accept a part that is patented one place and not another?
• Going Forward
  • We'll mail them our Vibrio reductase.
  • They'll mail us hpaC.
  • Cam, if willing, will briefly talk to or email them about his promoter library idea.
  • Our killswitch subgroup will talk to theirs.
  • They're going to BioBrick dszA & dszB and we're going to BioBrick dszC & dszD.
  • Set future meeting by email. (I probably should have gotten an email address from them.)

JohnHenry