Collaboration

1. Collaboration with CAFA_CHINA, NJU-CHINA, NEU_CHINA, BNU-CHINA, FAFU-FAFU

In order to let more people to know about synthetic biology and iGEM, we contacted 5 teams with different project goals, either therapeutic or detection oriented. We posted the outlines and logos of these teams' projects together on ticktock and instagram, hoping more people will see them and join the iGEM family.

2. Cooperation with LZU-CHINA and NEU_CHINA

Through CCIC, we learned that each other's teams share a common goal of making synthetic biology more accessible to people with disabilities. We believe that they have the right to receive expertise and communicate.

We, team LZU-HS-CHINA-B, mainly give outreach to blind people. We reached out to a blind person. A manuscript introducing synthetic biology was written and translated into Braille so that blind people could come and read it. After that, we contacted a blind person to read the printed manuscript in Braille and recorded it into a video. Finally, we uploaded the recorded video to the official website for the blind, so that more blind people can learn about synthetic biology and iGEM.

It has been approved by Mr. Zhu, who is blind.

NEU_CHINA, on the other hand, is responsible for the deaf, and they contacted Dancing Fingers Technology Co. The company researched a lightweight and convenient bracelet associated with a mobile app. The bracelet can translate sign language into written language by sensing muscle signals from hand movements, although the prerequisite is that a real person is required to enter the sign language and written language into the system. After a few days of sign language practice, we went to Dancing Fingers for sign language entry, and we entered "synthetic biology," "tumor," "targeted drugs," We have entered more than 30 biological words including "protein", "bacteria", etc. We will continue to follow up and try to enter more meaningful words into the system to help deaf people to receive professional knowledge and professional communication normally.

3. Collaboration with XHD-WUHAN-Pro-China team

Our team and XHD-WUHAN-Pro-China got familiar with each other through a group meeting. It is fortunate that we can conduct our collaboration together online and offline. We went to hospitals, local libraries, and schools to do field investigations and publicize our posters on synthetic biology. We held conferences and lectures with the same content and invited schoolmates to be our audience. We successfully let the world hear our voice and have an idea of synthetic biology and its potential advantages.

Their wiki link:xhd-wuhan-pro-china

4. Collaboration with the XHD-WUHAN-CHINA team

Security is inextricably linked to each of us. If there is a safety accident, it will affect the health, the serious life-long disability, or even take life. Therefore, we and XHD-WUHAN-CHINA team always put safety in the first place. On the subject of experimental safety, our two teams held a meeting. We discussed possible security risks in the experiment and how to deal with them. We also set up an interesting quick answer competition, in order to let each team member have full attention to safety.

5. CCIC

In August, we attended the CCIC - China iGEMer Community Conference. Due to the limitations of the New Crown Pneumonia outbreak, we were unable to attend the offline meeting in Shanghai, but we joined the online meeting room and were able to network with various iGEM teams. As we followed the presentations of other teams, we found certain parts of some teams' projects to be inspiring for our project. Some of the more specific ones were the design of the PowerPoint, the graphing, and the HP ideas.

6. Academic Conference

On September 10, we participated in an academic conference organized by the Worldshaper-Shanghai team. The conference was also attended by NMU-China, XHD-WUHAN, BS-United-China, Worldshaper-HZBiox, XHD-Wuhan-Pro-China, BIT-China, NNU-China, and LZU-HS-Pro- B. Unfortunately, due to the epidemic, we were not able to attend the conference. B. Unfortunately, because of the epidemic, this conference was also held online. But even so, we still benefited a lot from this conference. Unlike CCIC, this conference was more focused on the academic area, so we learned about other teams' project process and experimental ideas. In addition, we received advice from professional teachers after the presentations.

Partnership

Our LZU-HS-China-B team members and LZU-Pro-China team members work on our projects in the same lab and share the same meeting room. This gave us a lot of opportunities to communicate with each other. During our week together, we would discuss what we didn't understand or missed in today's experiments in the conference room after we finished our experiments. They also gave advice when our teams discussed their projects and vice versa, such as the design and plan of our two teams' genetic engineering and human social practice.

The LZU-HS-CHINA-ProB team had a problem with the preparation of antibiotic plates in insufficient quantities. Since our two teams were almost on the same schedule, we provided some antibiotic plates to the LZU-HS-CHINA-ProB team so that their experiment could continue smoothly.

Also, in the lab, our team had a problem with the agarose gel used for electric pulses, but we could not find the cause, and the team members of LZU-HS-CHINA-ProB actively helped us to think about the cause of the accident. Finally, with our joint efforts, we found out that the gel was left outside for too long, which prevented it from solidifying well. In addition, the LZU-HS-CHINA-ProB team leader decided to provide us with some agarose gels for emergency use in order to help us complete the experiment in a consistent manner.