Collaborations
Overview
Collaboration aims at getting us to collaborate with other 2022 iGEM teams in a meaningful way. The collaboration of our project contains numerous acts of cooperation between us and other teams, as well as our help to other teams in terms of hardware, etc.
CCiC roundtable
In the CCIC roundtable held on May 28th, 2022, team BIT as the sharing party introduced hardware with FAFU, GXU, Tsinghua, and other teams. Our team member, Taiyan Zhou, focused on various aspects of hardware, gave some details to pay attention to when designing hardware, and shared some of our own thoughts and experiences in the process of hardware design and production.
Due to our rich experience in hardware, many participating teams asked us questions about hardware during the conference. We also set up an IGEM hardware discussion group to build a platform for teams to communicate on hardware, which further strengthened the cooperation and communication among the participating teams.
Synthetic Biology Comic Book
During the period from June to September 2022, we participated in the synthetic biology comic book project hosted by FAFU, working with five schools to develop their respective projects in the form of comics, which are popular among young people. We hope to bring our projects to the public in a light-hearted and fun format.
Introduction with SUSTech
On June 22nd, 2022, team BIT and team SUSTech jointly conducted an online introduction for senior students of Shijiazhuang Second High School. The content mainly included the introduction of the two institutions, synthetic biology, related majors, iGEM events, and related projects. The presentation helped the seniors understand the synthetic biology-related majors and provided them with some help in choosing their majors, and also laid the foundation for the future friendly cooperation between our two teams.
2022 Meetup in China
From July 16th, 2022, to July 17th, 2022, the 2022 iGEM China Online Meetup hosted by Jiangnan University, Jilin University, Guangxi University, and Northwestern Polytechnic University was successfully held on Tencent Meeting, and the team BIT participated in the meetup as an invited party.
During the event, we drew excellent examples and advanced experiences from dozens of iGEM teams. After the meeting, a WeChat group was established by the organizer, and we all gained a deeper understanding of each other's projects during the follow-up exchanges.
Curriculum with Tsinghua, FAFU, etc.
On July 23rd, 2022, FAFU and Tsinghua formed a university consortium and joined forces with team BIT and other teams from ten universities to offer a series of online public courses for high school students with the help of BOIODO MENTOR and Bilibili online media platforms. Team BIT offered a "Synthetic Biology in Life'' course and talked about synthetic biology's birth, development, research content, and application examples.
Hardware Q&A for Tsinghua
On, May 27th, 2022., in the CCIC roundtable, Tsinghua raised several issues of concern, such as the cost of microfluidic chips, our team member Taiyan Zhou gave them a direction for their hardware design.
On, July 23th, 2022., we were invited to join Tsinghua's Online Public Service Courses, and we presented the session "Introduction to Synthetic Biology" to the audience, which was widely welcomed.
On, July 29th, 2022., team Tsinghua had some issues with material selection and wanted to understand how to choose materials with cost in mind. Our team member Taiyan Zhou suggested that they first create a model with the right materials to meet the project, and then talk to the manufacturer to discuss the cost and iterate on the materials during the mass production phase. The Tsinghua team accepted this proposal and expressed their thanks.
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Curriculum with BUCT, etc.
On Aug.13th, team BUCT, together with the team BIT and others from twelve universities, held a series of online public science courses with the help of Tencent Meeting and the Bilibili online media platform. Among them, with the theme of synthetic biology and life, team BIT talked to the participating students about the birth, development, research content, and application examples of synthetic biology, and explained the biological principles of our project, a pain classification system based on miRNA detection. Such a public service science course is helpful for more people to understand synthetic biology and pay attention to the development of synthetic biology.
CRISPR Meetup in China
On August 18th, 2022, team BIT conducted the 2022 iGEM China CRISPR Meetup jointly with team UESTC-BioTech, the team from HainanU-China, and teams from seven other universities.
In 2022 iGEM China CRISPR Meetup, each team had a thorough discussion and exchange on dry and wet experiments, modeling, software and hardware, and Wiki. They also shared their experience of the competition and created minutes for the participating teams to review and learn.
Introduction with team BIT-CHINA
On September 24th, 2022, we joined forces with another team from Beijing Institute of Technology, team BIT-China, to launch a presentation in the public community of the campus in a combination of online and offline ways, targeting high school students from Changping No. 1 Middle School and current students of BIT. The presentation introduced the two teams and the project overview in recent years, hoping to inspire more people to become iGEMers in 2023.
Cooperation with the FAFU
On October 2nd, 2022, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University invited us to jointly hold an outreach event for students of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, bringing a unique lecture on synthetic biology to the students of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. A total of 231 undergraduates from various majors at the university participated in this event.
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Cooperation with the CPU_CHINA
We collaborated on several educational activities and organized a painting exhibition to jointly promote synthetic biology in an accessible way. In addition, we also participated in the exchange of other teams' projects and constantly promoted each other's projects with an open attitude.
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Conclusion
We collaborated with different teams in a variety of meaningful ways. From sharing to providing advice, to a variety of outreach and promotional activities, our teams have gained experience and strategies through collaboration and have contributed to the development of synthetic biology by collaborating with other teams in any way we can.