Our awesome PIs

They provide us with venue, technical and financial support, which is the basis for the activities.

Xiangkai Li (Primary PI)

Work in Lanzhou University, School of Life science, Institute of Microbiology, Professor, doctor supervisor. He provided us with laboratories, experimental instruments and experimental materials. He conducted experimental guidance for us, and his graduate student was our instructor


Weilin Jin (Secondary PI)

He mainly conducts translational research in stem cell and tumor immunity. Establishment of a tumor neurobiology laboratory that will focus on neural and tumor interactions and exploration of new therapeutic strategies for tumors based on this. He has provided a lot of theoretical support for the experiments.


Yiqing Wang (Secondary PI)

He focuses on the molecular mechanisms and interventions of reproductive medicine-related diseases. He helped us contact the hospital's ethics committee so that we could communicate with colorectal cancer patients.


Jianming Tang (Secondary PI)

He majored in oncology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to propose a clinical translation concept for tumor radiotherapy resistance studies. Provide theoretical and technical guidance for our experiments.

Our hard-working and intelligent instructors

They did experiments with us in the lab, explained the principle of the experiment, and gave us detailed information about the analysis of the results.

Tuoyu Zhou (instructor)

He is a PhD candidate in microbiology at Lanzhou University and currently engaged in the research of synthetic probiotics for the targeted therapy of colorectal cancer. He also published 4 SCI articles in Journal of Hazardous Materials, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, etc. He taught us laboratory safety guidelines and showed us how to use each equipment.


Jingyuan Wu (instructor)

She directed team members to do experiments, standardized members' experimental operations, and provided us with guidance for writing web pages.


Haibo Tang (instructor)

He explained the principles of the experiment in detail, helped team members conduct experiments and analyzes the results.


Xiaoxiao Hou (instructor)

She helped us to prepare experimental materials and reagents, and the reimbursement and turnover of funds.

Our best leader

Our leader is responsible for the planning, review and promotion of all activities and is an all-rounder.

Yuntian Yang (student team leader)

She was responsible for coordinating the time of the experimental group and arranging for team members to do the experiments; as well as contacting other teams for collaboration; and promoting both the education and integrated human practice. During the summer, she was responsible for the closing part of the experiment together with other team members, and also contributed some of the text content of the webpage, check-in form and all the safety form.

Our Multi-tasking testers

The members of the experimental team were responsible for all the experimental work, and they knew the experimental content very well, so they also carried out some related activities at the same time.

Zheng Huang (experimental group member, HP team member)

She was involved in the construction of most of our strains and subsequently tested them for in vitro experiments. She defined the experimental protocols for our hardware builds. During the summer, she was in charge of communication and discussion with other iGEM teams to share or learn from the team experience.


Yuting Gong (experimental group member, HP team member)

She worked in the experimental group, mainly doing some cellular and molecular experiments. At the same time, she also participated in the HP. In the summer vacation, she joined iGEM China Alliance, discussed the project content with other teams, and explained the occurrence and detection of colorectal cancer in the form of live streaming and online classes. She also did some accessible work, and cooperated with Sign language Association to add sign language description to our promotional video.


Xi Lian (Communication and HP team member)

She is deeply involved in our Human Practices activities. In addition to conducting biology science lectures in affiliated school of Lanzhou University with NEU, she focused on creating and promoting General Questionnaires about our project. During this summer, she was in charge of the partnership with SCUT to promoting biology to Special Disability Groups.


Leqi Yuan (experimental group member, HP team member)

She did cell experiment and western blot during summer holiday. As an HP member she represented our team in the offline education program in Hangzhou and communication with other teams.


Zibu (experimental group member, HP team member)

She did some cell experiment. She taught some experimental operations and the use of endnotes to middle school students in Guangdong Province on zoom. At the same time, she investigated the cancer treatment of LGBTQ group, design and make a brochure for the public and a proposal for medical personnel, went to the hospital to carry out relevant activities. She also contacted the Indian team and shared and exchanged information about LGBTQ groups in the two countries on zoom.


Wei Li (experimental group member, HP team member)

As a member of the experimental group, she participated in the construction of genetically engineered strains, learned and mastered the experimental operations related to molecular biology.


Weijie Luo (experimental group member, HP team member)

He did some cell experiment during spring and helped carry out education for physically challenged people in Guangzhou, also prepared various materials for HP work.

Our creative artwork group

The art team created some beautiful images and animations to help spread the project better.

Shuo Wang (artwork group member)

He created a new IP image for the team and designed 16 emoji stickers based on it, which were submitted to WeChat emoji platform. For education, he worked with the official campus media of Lanzhou University to complete the emojis and the promotion of the project work, so that more people can understand colorectal cancer from the scientific perspective. He also designed the required scientific illustrations for the wiki and videos and helped with the experiments in any way he could.


Bin Li (artwork group member)

He work in the video team, mainly involved in the production of promotional videos. During my time in iGEM team, He mainly completed the following tasks: the production of the second half of the promotion video, the extraction of VVT subtitles, video editing and adding dubbing.


Gongcheng Huang (artwork group member)

He majors in agriculture and forestry economics and management. He is a member of the video team and the art team. Usually good at publicity work, the main work in the team includes press release writing, poster design, video editing, etc.


Ziyi Feng (artwork group member)

Grade 19 of the Academy of Arts, she is responsible for the exhibition of website images, logo design and the exhibition in Yue Gallery.


Zhenfeng Zhou (artwork group member)

He is currently a member of the video group of the team. The main responsibility is to do some publicity for the team, such as making promotional videos.

Our mathematical group with strong analytical ability

The mathematical group models the experimental data analysis and presents the experimental results more intuitively.

Qingyang Cai(Member of Mathematical Modeling Group)

She is a member of the mathematical modeling group and is responsible for part of the mathematical model building. In the summer, she focuses on understanding the biological background of mathematical models and finding suitable models to use as base models. Together with Siyao Wang, she wrote code to estimate the parameters of the equations and wrote the mathematical modeling section of the wiki.


Siyao Wang (Mathematical modeling team member)

He completed the construction of the mechanism of chemical reaction equation of that project on the basis of full understanding of the chemical background. Then, he proposed reaction kinetics equations of whole process. Next, he devoted himself into learning the transcriptional regulatory network, on the basis of relevant knowledge, to further simplify the model, and using the algorithm of particle swarm simulation optimization model parameters. The sensitivity analysis of the model was also carried out. To sum up, he had Successfully completed the mathematical model of the project.

Our crucial wiki group

The wiki group is responsible for the creation of the web page and the public presentation of all data.

Tianyi Wang (Member of Wiki Group)

In this project, he was responsible for the programming part of the wiki. Especially the use of Bootstrap.


Tianzhi Wang (Member of Wiki Group)

He is responsible for the production of wiki and the visual display of the results on the web page. This summer, he systematically learned about the use of gitlab, applied the bootstrap framework, and completed the wiki pages with his teammate Tianyi Wang.

Our helpful advisors

They were members of the previous competition and gave a lot of advice and helped us with some activities in this event.

Kun Zhu (advisor)

He is currently a Ph.D. student majoring in Biomedicine at Tsinghua University and just graduated from Lanzhou University in the June of 2022. In 2021, he was the student leader in our team and they really learned a lot from the competition. In 2022, he is so glad to support LZU-CHINA and provides constructive suggestions.


Habuer (advisor)

He is a senior student from School of Life Science, Lanzhou University. As a veteran of the last iGEM competition, he continues to offer help to creation of parts and wiki this year.


Cuiyan Yang (advisor)

She gave us many suggestions about collaboration and human practice.


Ziao Gan (advisor)

Academic confused egg + stay up late champion. A night owl who always practices Iranian time. She guided us on how to write web pages and conduct education.


Furong Wang (advisor)

She gave advice on experiment conduction and the renewal of education package of last year.


Tianjin Liu (advisor)

Former iGEM student, she also gave some suggestions on the experimentation part.

Organizations that help us



Lanzhou University

The main funder of this event.


School of Life Science, Lanzhou University

Provision of laboratories and laboratory equipment, and the College Student Union helps us with our Summer Plasmid Orienteering.


Cuiying College, Lanzhou University

Support us to have a National Day Party, so our biological band can perform on the stage.


Research Corporation Technologies

Provided us with an impact grant of $2500, which greatly eases our tight financial situation.


Lanzhou University Sign Language Association

They helped us to make a sign language version of the promotion video.


Lanzhou University Darwin Association

The leader of this association helped us adapt the lyrics to help the National Day Party run smoothly.

Teams we have worked with

We interacted and collaborated with these teams to facilitate communication and deepen the understanding of iGEM activities. More details can visit collaboration and patnership.



NEU_CHINA
SZ-SHD
NWU-CHINA-A
Worldshaper-HZBIOX
NAU-CHINA
iGEM IISER Tirupati