Team:Tokyo Tech/Collaboration

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iGEM Tokyo Tech 2010 "E.coli with Humanity"

We achieved some projects that collaborated on with teams in Japan. Each team in Japan discusses with other teams regularly and actively, using Skype and Wiki on the Web. These collaborations enabled every team to share information of all teams in Japan and activate one another.

iGEM Summer Meetup in Japan (in Kyoto)

6 teams in Japan met in Kyoto University in order to practice presentation in English. On 18th August 2010, teams in Japan gathered together in “Summer meetup”. This year, the meeting was took place at Kyoto University (Hosted by team Kyoto). The aim of this meetup was to cultivate ideas with other teams. Each team was supposed to give a presentation on their projects followed by discussion with other teams. 5 teams attended to make presentations (Kyoto、UT-Tokyo、Tokyo-Metropolitan、Osaka、KIT-Kyoto), and Tokyo-tech, delegated an observer. After the presentation meeting, we had a social party and made the bond with between teams tight.

iGEM Summer Meetup in Tokyo

On 23th August 2010, 5teams near Tokyo met in our campus. This meetup was hosted by UT-Tokyo and its aim was to have a direct discussion and see our facilities. At first in the meeting, attendants were divided in four small groups, in which members from each team explained their projects and discussed together. Moreover, on the very day, two members of iGEM2009 Cambridge (Caitlin Cockerton et al.) came and discussed about project management.

Science café at MIRAIKAN,Tokyo

We participated in science café held at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/) on 11th, Oct. Science café is a party opened for ordinary people to mingle with science-related people over a cup of tea.
This time, the theme was “~Artificial life and cells~ the future of synthetic biology ”. Early in this year, group of scientists succeeded in synthesizing Mycoplasmic genome chemically, which made the definition of life more and more vague (Gibson et al, SCIENCE 329:52 (2010)).
We shared our views with the participants whose age ranged from 12 to over 60, and this was a nice experience. This is because we thought the field of synthetic biology become more ethically difficult, and we have to reconsider how we are going to approach toward synthetic biology.

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 We achieved some projects that collaborated on with teams in Japan. Each team in Japan discusses with other teams regularly and actively, using Skype and Wiki on the Web. These collaborations enabled every team to share information of all teams in Japan and activate one another.
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-・iGEM Summer Meetup in Japan (in Kyoto)
+==iGEM Summer Meetup in Japan (in Kyoto)==
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 teams in Japan met in Kyoto University in order to practice presentation in English.
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+On 18th August 2010, teams in Japan gathered together in “Summer meetup”. This year, the meeting was took place at Kyoto University (Hosted by team Kyoto).
-・iGEM Summer Meetup in Tokyo
+The aim of this meetup was to cultivate ideas with other teams. Each team was supposed to give a presentation on their projects followed by discussion with other teams. 5 teams attended to make presentations (Kyoto、UT-Tokyo、Tokyo-Metropolitan、Osaka、KIT-Kyoto), and Tokyo-tech, delegated an observer.
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+After the presentation meeting, we had a social party and made the bond with between teams tight.
-UT-Tokyo asked Tokyo-Tech for cooperation to hold it. 5 teams near Tokyo met there. We hosted it for the purpose of the activity with teams that could not join the above.
-'''Holding a seminar for attracted students to synthetic biology'''
-We held a seminar for high school students and 35 students attended.
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-In this seminar, many people had got interested in molecular biology. Moreover, more than 10 students told us they had got attracted to synthetic biology and especially in iGEM. This means the seminar was successfully contributed to future iGEM participant.
+==iGEM Summer Meetup in Tokyo==
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-The seminar was held on 30th July 2010 at a private school, SEG (Scientific Education Group), which is one of our sponsors. This was led by Ryo Taniuchi and Ryo Kariyazono, members of UT-Tokyo team.
+On 23th August 2010, 5teams near Tokyo met in our campus. This meetup was hosted by UT-Tokyo and its aim was to have a direct discussion and see our facilities.
+At first in the meeting, attendants were divided in four small groups, in which members from each team explained their projects and discussed together. Moreover, on the very day, two members of iGEM2009 Cambridge (Caitlin Cockerton et al.) came and discussed about project management.
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-We made a lecture of 4 hours on molecular biology and synthetic biology. For students to easily understand,　we effectively utilized visual materials, for example CGs that was broadcasted by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). We also had a discussion time with students. It was an exciting seminar.
+==Science café at MIRAIKAN,Tokyo==
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-The contents of the lecture are below:
+We participated in science café held at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation [http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/ (http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/en/)] on 11th, Oct.
+Science café is a party opened for ordinary people to mingle with science-related people over a cup of tea.
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-・About GFP ( its contributions to biology by visualizing molecules and cells. Hot topic of 2008 Nobel Prize )
+This time, the theme was “~Artificial life and cells~ the future of synthetic biology ”.
+Early in this year, group of scientists succeeded in synthesizing Mycoplasmic genome chemically, which made the definition of life more and more vague (Gibson ''et al'', SCIENCE 329:52 (2010)).
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-・basics of molecular cell biology (about DNA, the central dogma, etc)
+We shared our views with the participants whose age ranged from 12 to over 60, and this was a nice experience. This is because we thought the field of synthetic biology become more ethically difficult, and we have to reconsider how we are going to approach toward synthetic biology.
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-・an introduction to Synthetic Biology
-'''Open-source project of Our Research'''
-In addition to the iGEM official Wiki, we built an official Website in Japanese. This is caused by an idea, open-source of our experiments. We assure you that this leads to scientific development by abandoning intellectual property rights as possible and offering information quickly to many researchers.
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-This weblog carries possible every contents on our experimental notebooks. This open-source enabled us to deepen exchange between internal and other teams and have information in common. Besides, we became be able to search quickly past experiments and take part in an active discussion on the web.
-'''Summer Meetup at Kyoto （Japan Meetup in Kyoto）'''
-On 18th August 2010, teams in Japan gathered together in “Summer meetup”. This year, the meeting was took place at Kyoto University (Hosted by team Kyoto), as last year University of Tokyo (UT-Tokyo（2010）/Todai-Tokyo(2009)) had been the host and meeting place.
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-The aim of this meetup was to cultivate ideas with other teams and to enhance friendship with them. Each team was supposed to give a presentation on their projects followed by a mutual discussion with other teams. 5 teams attended to make presentations (Kyoto、UT-Tokyo、Tokyo-Metropolitan、Osaka、KIT-Kyoto), and 1 team, Tokyo-tech, delegated an observer.
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-UT-Tokyo team made a presentation on two of our three projects : “Sudoku” project and “fundamental cure of allergy“ project. Especially on Sudoku, our main project, active discussion was heated with many questions and suggestions from other teams.
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-After the presentation meeting, we had a social party and made the bond with between teams tight.
-'''Meetup at Tokyo institute of Techonology　(Eastern Japan Meetup in Tokyo)'''
-In addition to meet up at Kyoto, meetup for Tokyo area team was held led by UT-Tokyo. This was because only a few teams in eastern Japan had attended the meetup on 18th August above, because of long distance to Kyoto.
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-This time, we gathered at Suzukakedai Campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology on 23rd August. All 5 teams in Tokyo area (UT-Tokyo, Chiba, Tokyo-tech, TMU, Tokyo-NoKoGen) attended, owing to close combination between teams and strong concern for project of UT-Tokyo.
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-In this meeting, the aim of our team was to have a direct discussion and to get familiar with Prof. Daisuke Kiga, the instructor of Tokyo-tech team and most leading synthetic biologist in Japan.
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-At first in the meeting, attendants were divided in four small groups, in which members from each team explained their projects and discussed together. Moreover, on the very day, two members of iGEM2009 Cambridge (Caitlin Cockerton et al.) visited to meet Prof. Kiga to make a research on the relationship between biotechnology and industry. We had a talk with them about jamboree last year and cultural difference between England and Japan.
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-After small group discussion, UT-Tokyo team made a full presentation, with requests from other teams and Prof. KIga. This was benefit for both sides, as other teams had long been interested in our Sudoku project. After the presentation, fortunately, Prof. Kiga gave us various advices. An impressive his comment: “I’d be willing to go over to UT-Tokyo from Tokyo-Tech immediately if I could”. It may just be a complement, but at least we got some confidence about our project.
-= Collaboration =
-On August 23, UT-Tokyo and teams from 4 eastern Japanese universities (Tokyo_Tech, Tokyo_Metropolitan, Tokyo-NoKoGen & Chiba) held a meetup at Suzukakedai, hometown of Tokyo_Tech.
-In this meetup Tokyo_Tech and we discussed the weakness of their and our projects and got ideas to improve.
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