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<p>Our team was fortunate enough to not only be sponsored by Monsanto, but also were able to interact with this company and learn more about how syn bio fits into the industry.</p>
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<p>This summer, our team was fortunate enough to not only be sponsored by Monsanto, but also to visit this company and speak with company representatives.</p>
  
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<p>Initially, a representative from Monsanto,Prashanth Vishwanath, came to BU to learn about our research and tell us a little bit more about Monsanto. We presented an initial version of our work and got some feedback. It was interesting to hear what he said as he comes from a very different background than our principal investigators and PhD mentors. He gave us more information about what kinds of processes would have to take place in order to actually get our split protein methodology into not only other research labs but for even further real world applications.</p>
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<p>A Monsanto representative named Prashanth Vishwanath visited BU to learn about our research and tell us more about the company. He spoke with us about the company’s mission and the type of work that was being conducted at the Cambridge site. We got to ask questions and learn more about how the company fit in the wider synthetic biology industry. We also got to talk to him about our project idea, and learn more about how conditional dimerization of proteins might actually have industrial applications.</p>
  
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<p>Later, we were also able to tour their facilities. We experienced what it was like to do a quick pitch about our project, which extremely helpful later when we were summarizing the most important details of our project. While touring the facility in Cambridge we saw…..and this helped us learn...</p>
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<p>Later in the summer, we got an opportunity to tour the Monsanto Cambridge facilities. We heard a presentation from a Monsanto researcher talking more about different areas of research that Monsanto is conducting. We also got to give a quick pitch of our project to other Monsanto members, which was a great experience in trying to communicate our project without any visual aids. We got to walk through labs and see all of the equipment that researchers there use - and much of it looked very similar to our own lab at BU.</p>
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<p>Thanks to Monsanto for sponsorship and for the site visit! We really appreciate it.</p>
  
 
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Revision as of 23:59, 17 September 2015

Monsanto

This summer, our team was fortunate enough to not only be sponsored by Monsanto, but also to visit this company and speak with company representatives.

A Monsanto representative named Prashanth Vishwanath visited BU to learn about our research and tell us more about the company. He spoke with us about the company’s mission and the type of work that was being conducted at the Cambridge site. We got to ask questions and learn more about how the company fit in the wider synthetic biology industry. We also got to talk to him about our project idea, and learn more about how conditional dimerization of proteins might actually have industrial applications.

Later in the summer, we got an opportunity to tour the Monsanto Cambridge facilities. We heard a presentation from a Monsanto researcher talking more about different areas of research that Monsanto is conducting. We also got to give a quick pitch of our project to other Monsanto members, which was a great experience in trying to communicate our project without any visual aids. We got to walk through labs and see all of the equipment that researchers there use - and much of it looked very similar to our own lab at BU.

Thanks to Monsanto for sponsorship and for the site visit! We really appreciate it.