Collaborations
Let’s learn and develop solutions. Together.
How We Can Help
For other iGEM teams
Waterloo always welcomes collaboration initiatives with other iGEM teams, whether they are in Canada or abroad! If you want to collaborate with our team, please reach out via one of our social media platforms or through our main email address. We can’t wait to work with you!
For students wanting to start an iGEM team
Waterloo has been involved in iGEM since 2005 and is always happy to share advice on how to do anything, whether it's setting up a team, finding support (financial and advisory), or how to get started on your project.
For community members or other
If you would like to reach out to the Waterloo team to learn more about synthetic biology and the research we do, please reach out through the main email address.
Past Collaborations
UW x OhioState: Mathematical Modelling Mentorship
We collaborated with OhioState iGEM on the modelling aspects of their 2020 project. OhioState studied strategies for microbial biocontainment, and we helped develop strategies for engineering design, for modelling their proposed systems, and for retrieving relevant parameters from literature.
UW x Tuebingen: Protein Design and Molecular Dynamics
We collaborated with Tuebingen iGEM on the protein design and molecular dynamics aspects of our 2020 projects. Despite very different project motivations, we and Tuebingen both used rational protein design as a tool to improve the metal affinity of metal-binding proteins. We held several video calls over the term to discuss our work and help troubleshoot each others’ molecular dynamics software issues. We specifically shared advice for using GROMACS (an MD software tool) with quantum mechanical and classical mechanical models and for developing an iterative protein design workflow.
