Team:BGU Israel/Collaborations

Collaborations

This year we have collaborated with Team Stockholm in human cells expression of an Affibody which presents itself on the plasma membrane. This Affibody could then, for example, bind a toxin or a fluorescent molecule, which will kill or color the cells expressing it. Although the collaboration was such that had expressed the Affibody in human cells, without the use of our design, when using our system, specifically our third-plasmid design, the Affibody could be expressed solely in cancerous cells, and introduction of the desired molecule would have an effect only in diseased tissue.

Which other teams can we work with?

You can work with any other team in the competition, including software, hardware, high school and other tracks. You can also work with non-iGEM research groups, but they do not count towards the iGEM team collaboration gold medal criterion.

In order to meet the gold medal criteria on helping another team, you must complete this page and detail the nature of your collaboration with another iGEM team.

Here are some suggestions for projects you could work on with other teams:

• Improve the function of another team's BioBrick Part or Device
• Characterize another team's part
• Debug a construct
• Model or simulating another team's system
• Test another team's software
• Help build and test another team's hardware project
• Mentor a high-school team