LZU-HS-Pro-A

Overview

LZU-HS-Pro-A seeks to expand educational opportunities by including others in the field of synthetic biology and science

Convenient for color blind and color weak

Achromatopsia is a common abnormal vision disease. Patients have a poor ability to distinguish colours and can only see colours when the colours are relatively saturated. There are also people with colour disabilities around us and in our teams. Considering that different types of colour-blind patients have different sensitivity to different colours, to let them better understand our project and participate in bioengineering activities, we designed our education and introduction article in different forms according to the colour sensitivity of different colour-blind people. In the colour settings at the top of the promotion article, we created options to switch the article's colour for various colour-blind people, and everyone can select their most suitable colours with these options. we made functions similar to filters and hope that this feature would be like a polarization filter, in which the interface can be processed and modified, and then provide visual colors to make our educational articles about synthetic biology easier for color blind and color impaired people to read. Next part is our specific design in the promotion article for different colour weakness persons.

Based on the five common types of color blindness and color weakness of red blindness, green blindness, blue-yellow blindness, total color blindness and total color weakness, we have designed four color matching options on the promotion article. Considering that red and green are darker than other colours in red-green blind eyes, making it difficult to distinguish, we plan to change the page color to mainly blue and yellow after selecting the corresponding option for red-green color. Conversely, for blue-yellow blindness, we design web pages with green or red as the main color. For the more special people with total color blindness, because patients prefer dark tones, we use red as well as darker colors such as brown. Finally, for panchromatic weakness, we used two darker and contrasting colors, black and blue, to help them get the best viewing experience of our promotion article.

Figure and Contend for normal people

Figure and Contend for people with color weak

Considering the viewing effect of color-blind people, we pay attention to the use of contrasting colors and tones in the design, so that the website does not appear monotonous, and at the same time helps them to distinguish colors. We also avoid mixing between some colors, as well as symbols and colors, such as green and red, green and brown, blue and purple.

In addition to the color design of wikis, we start with patterns and textures to further improve visual effects and contrast degree, such as using the contrast of lattice and striped patterns for visual improvement.

Multi-Language plan

Although the technology is developed and people’s life quality improve, the language barrier is still an important factor that prevents people in different regions from accessing the content we advertise to some extent. From this point of view, although many websites have built-in translation function, However, inaccuracies in words and expressions, especially proper nouns, often occur in translation, which will greatly affect the understanding of people other than English speakers. Therefore, we translate the complete text content into French, Spanish, German, Russian, Korean, and Japanese to improve the comprehension of the text in order to let more people get in touch to bioengineering and get familiar to our project. In this way, people in different countries and speaking different languages can be fully informed about synthetic biology and realize its importance, which complete our mission to let more people included in IGEM competition.

Expert Lectures

Expert introduction:

Director of Zhongke Jiayi Microecology Research Institute, Director of Weifang Key Laboratory of Microecological Preparation Research and Development, microbial fermentation engineer, member of Traditional Medicine Characteristic Evaluation Committee of China National Medicine Association, member of Shandong Fermentation Association Professional Committee, Product R&D director of Shandong Zhongke Jiayi Bioengineering Co., LTD.

Main research Directions:

Intestinal microecological balance and intervention study;

Theoretical study on the effect of intestinal microecology on Chinese medicine metabolism;

Screening, application and clinical research of functional probiotics;

Study on fermentation technology of medicine and food cognate traditional Chinese medicine

The biosynthetic E. coli in this project is closely related to other microbiota in the human gut. There are a large number of microorganisms in the human intestine and other tissues, and the "microenvironment" composed of these microorganisms affects the various tissues and organs of the human body in different ways, and its impact on the brain is even more fascinating to researchers in various countries. Recent studies have shown that people with depression lack several intestinal floras in their gut compared to normal people. At present, although researchers cannot determine whether this phenomenon is directly related to the production of depression, they have found that many intestinal floras can produce many substances that affect neuropsychiatric activities, including mood, and there is a certain correlation between the intestinal flora and the production of depression. In our project, in addition to design synthetic biological strains based on the production of 5-HTP and GABA based on E. coli 1917, we allow patients to ingest probiotics in order to regulate the balance of flora in the human intestine. In order to further explore the impact of probiotics and intestinal microecological balance on human emotions and metabolism, we held an educational activity about probiotics, inviting Professor Si Shufeng, The CEO of a bioengineering company that located in Shandong. Professor Si Shufeng has mainly conducted research on intestinal microecological balance and intervention, functional probiotic screening and applications, and also some clinical research. He has a deep understanding of microecology and microbial fermentation. At the same time, we also invited some IGEM teams from other schools. We exchanged some ideas about intestinal probiotics and talked about the future of bioengineering. In the lecture, Professor Si introduced us to the role of probiotics in the intestine, as well as related content about the intestinal flora of various patient populations. We learned about the effects of gut microbiota status on a person's mental state and physical health, and we also improved our design for probiotic intake. The lecture the professor gave us allowed us to have a deeper understanding of synthetic biology. It not only contributed constructively to our project design, but also gave the public a detailed lecture on synthetic biology and microorganisms, which enriched their knowledge, broadened their horizons and saw the importance of synthetic biology.

Offline publicity:

Nowadays, many older people are biased against Gmos and probiotics related to synthetic biology. For them, GM products that cannot be proven to be absolutely safe are dangerous. As a result, more and more elderly people are unwilling to buy probiotics that work for them. We strengthen the education of the elderly, walk to the nursing home, personally explain to the elderly that products made using synthetic biology and genetic modification have many benefits, but no exaggerated dangers, so that the elderly gradually accept and use probiotics, and realize its benefits and future development.

Offline Education in Community Nursing Home

Our team also went to several middle schools in Beijing to introduce the basic knowledge of synthetic biology, as well as the basic introduction of laboratory facilities and safety. These students learned a lot of experimental knowledge, such as how to properly wear experimental gloves and how to use some basic experimental equipment such as a pipette when they do experiments in synthetic biology. By communicating with different groups of people, we introduce the synthetic biology to public and make access for common people to know more about newly developed technologies.