Collaborations | NJTech_China

1. MENTOR

We mentored the team Worldshaper-NJBIOX this summer. Our research directions are similar, so we can give them help and guidance in experiments and share the survey data. Our team provided suggestions on the design of experimental ideas, taught experimental operations, and shared experimental materials (including strains, plasmids or sequences) with team.

In the aspect of HP, we engaged them in the meeting up hosted by NNU-China and NJTech_China and taught them some experience about how to hold a successful meeting up.We shared them some production skills in posters and promotion video, and some drawing skills about brochures. Through this experience, we gained camaraderie and a deeper understanding of the iGEM competition.

2. HOLDING A MEET UP

On 5th August, we and NNU-Chian co-hosted an educational meetup session in the biomedical public technology service platform in Nanjing Jiangbei New District. Nanjing University (NJU-China), Nanjing Medical University (NJMU-China), Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU-China), Nanjing New Oriental (NJXDF-CHN), Worldshaper-Nanjing and Worldshaper-NJBIOX also participated in the event. 8 teams discussed project initiation. The eight teams had a friendly exchange and sharing on project initiation, progress of practice, etc. Our team provided the venue and all the logistics for the event, and we also produced the manuals used for the event. The event was divided into three parts: a lecture on educational methods and skills, a presentation of existing achievements, and an exchange and discussion. Firstly, NNU-China invited Mr. Shen Xiaohai from the College of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering of Nanjing Normal University to share online.

Mr. Shen analysed and explained the following social practices. He mentioned how to do it, target audience, content and effective content collection. All team representatives benefited from listening. Based on the introduction of the team project content, each team representative shared their educational activities since the project was launched.

Communication directions

Wet lab

Although there were few teams doing promoter-related work this year, we did have a collaborative exchange with a team from Beijing University of Technology who also do promoters. Together we studied and exchanged the following literature.Characterization of Endogenous and Reduced Promoters for Oxygen-Limited Processes Using Escherichia coli.

HP

In the HP section we worked with a number of teams and exchanged tips and techniques for PV filming with a team from Nanjing University. We also collaborated with a team from China Pharmaceutical University to promote the science of synthetic biology.

Help received

We are grateful to the teams and organisations that helped our team throughout the tournament.

Meet Up

Meet Up by CPU-China

01/05/2022

A total of 24 teams participated in this exchange, because at the beginning of the competition, we had an initial exchange of project ideas and an exchange of hp-related activity arrangements under the lack of milestones. We built up a deep friendship with each other.

Meet Up by NJU-China

04/06/2022

This was an online meet up in Nanjing organized by NJU-China, with 6 teams from different universities in Nanjing. Compared to the previous one, we had more content to share: the four different ideas we experimented with, the HP summer camp activities. Of course we also exchanged many relevant questions and we were not only the beneficiaries but also the helpers during this time.

CCiC

18/08/2022

It was a very memorable exchange experience, not only for us to present our experimental ideas and milestones to teams from various regions and universities throughout China.

Since CCiC, where we shared our projects with each other, we built great friendships with team YiYe-China and BIT-China.

Not only did we discuss with each other the feasibility of the experimental ideas and the points to note in the educational activities part of HP.

We discussed the literature on promoters with BIT-China who used another microaerobic induced promoter nirB in their project.

We also helped the team BIT-China and YiYe-China to solve the technical problems they encountered in their parts registry procedures.

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