NCTU iGEM Asia Conference

For our first presentation of our iGEM project, we attended the iGEMers Asia Conference hosted by National Chiao Tong University. To all future Asian teams: you should attend this event! We met a lot of cool people, ideas, and projects and had a great time in Hsingchu, Taiwan. Check out the NCTU Formosa wiki.

Central China iGEMers' Consortium (CCiC)

We traveled to Beijing to meet Chinese iGEM teams and present our project. We met with more teams working with the pBAD promoter as well as chromoproteins, and it was really awesome being able to discuss with them on how we could improve expression. Thank you Peking University iGEM Team for hosting! Check out the Peking team wiki

Meetup with Tongji, Jiaotong, and ITB

We hosted one of the first meetups of the summer, we talked about our developing project ideas, general organizational principles for the summer, and potential collaborations for future Human Practice events. Our friends from Tongji University traveled for a little under an hour to come to NYU Shanghai, while the Jiaotong University students travelled over two hours. The representative from ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology) flew all the way from Indonesia!

Ocean University of China

中国海洋大学

We were both working with the pBAD promoter. We had some troubles with inducing ours with the desired expression levels, and OUC helped us out by providing some of their lab characterization data of the pBAD promoter. Take a look at their wiki.