The National University of Defense Technology iGEM team was responsible for all aspects of running the team, including project communication, model building, lab work executing, team-shirt designing, and so on. We’d like to thank everyone who has helped us during this project. Their contributions deserve our deepest thanks.
Team leader
Jiale He
Responsible for the coordination and communication between different groups and teachers, organizing group meetings and participating in wiki writing and many conferences , following up the progress of different groups .
Lingfeng Chen
All in; The man in charge of the modeling team.
Yue Yin
Responsible for organizing preliminary and experimental group work; Carry out the early lab work; Assist HP group in conducting expert interviews; Participate in wiki writing.
Team Members
Pengyu Wang
Carry out the early lab work; Participate in wiki writing; Participate in project research.
YuanBo Li
Participate in the video recording of promotion video; Carry out the early lab work; Participate in wiki writing; Participate in project research; Play a role in the human practices group work.
Chang Che
Carry out the early lab work; Participate in questionnaire survey; Participate in interview activities; Participate in wiki writing.
Zhaoyang Ren
Participate in experiment and engineering.
Ningyue Sun
Participate in the project research; Carry out the early lab work; Involved in wiki writing.
Xin Tang
Carry out the early lab work; Participate in wiki writing; Participate in project research.
Xiuping Wu
Participate in art design and wiki construction.
Rui Yang
Designed and constructed plenty of plasmids; Participate in wiki writing; Carry out the lab work.
Shiyin Jin
Carry out the whole lab work; Designed and constructed plenty of plasmids; Participate in wiki writing.
Boyuan Duan
Code with gitlab for wiki; Upload source material; Edit the figures; Participate in wiki writing.
Xiyao Yang
Carry out the lab work;Participate in wiki writing;Responsible for the filming of Promotion video and Presentation video; Participate in project research.
Jie He
Carry out the early lab work; Participate in wiki writing.
Lifei Guo
Carry out the early lab work; Participate in wiki writing; Participate in project research.
Rang Li
Carry out part of lab work; Participate in the questionnaire survey; Play a role in planning, preparation and engagement of expert interview; Participate in wiki writing.
Baoyi Zhou
Carry out the whole lab work; Take part in project research; Participate in wiki writing.
Junxi Xu
Carry out part of lab work; Participate in the preparation of the questionnaire, responsible for the follow-up questionnaire data analysis; Play a role in planning, preparation and engagement of expert interview; Participate in popular science lectures on synthetic biology; Participate as an organizer in communication with other teams; Participate in wiki writing.
Ying Yang
Responsible for the group work of Art and Design; Organize promotion video and edit; Design the logo of our project and the team uniform patterns; Design peripheral products; Participate in wiki writing and wiki construction.
Bingshun Shi
Carry out the lab work; Participate in wiki writing, including experiment, education and parts; Participate in project research.
PIs and Instructors
Our Primary PI, Professor Lingyun Zhu, oversaw the project and provided us with support for the experiment platform, materials, and equipment.
Our secondary PIs, Dr. Wenying Li and Mr. Xinyuan Qiu, helped conceptualize our project, and provided detailed assistance on data analysis, visualization, and troubleshooting. Two plasmids used in our project pXQ164 and pXQ100 were kindly provided by Mr. Xinyuan Qiu.
Our instructors, Dr. Lu Min and Mr. Chuanyang Liu, provided us with crucial labwork training and helped with data analysis and wiki editing. Our other instructors, Drs. Xiaomin Wu, Lvyun Zhu, and Jingyu Kuang provided us with important suggestions during the process of wiki production.
External Support
We thank Mirta Viviani from Westlake University for offering important recommendations that helped us to optimize our system. We would also like to thank Professor Huijie Bian, Professor Longbiao Cui, Professor Qiuju Zhang, Professor Ding Wei, and Dr. Zihan Li for offering us constructive suggestions during the interview.
We thank Changsha Science and Technology Association for providing us the chance to deliver a synthetic biology-related small lecture during the National Science Popularization Day events
We also thank students from National University of Defense Technology, Central South University, as well as Fudan University to fill out our survey which helped us to shape our project.
We also thank iGEM teams CSU_China and Fudan_China for the partnership and the wonderful collaboration experience throughout the year.
Sponsors
Thanks to National University of Defense Technology for covering the registration fees. We also thank the generous sponsorship from Snapgene who provided us with licenses of their powerful software.
Other Support
Some members withdrew from our team midway. Although they didn’t complete the competition, we still would like to thank them for their hard work in the brainstorming promotion video production.
Other
Project History
We started brainstorming in March this year, providing initial ideas for the project. We conceptualized our project in April and started working on Human practice and lab work since then.
About the synthetic biology course
We are a team from National University of Defense Technology. Our school provides a synthetic biology course in the form of a compulsory course for students majoring in biotechnology. Our instructors also provide iGEM-related lectures and training programs at the beginning of the iGEM season.