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As we all know, the intestines are an important digestive organ of the human body. Most of the nutrients needed by the human body are digested and absorbed by the intestines, which provides beneficial substances for the human body and maintaining the vitality of human life. Combined with the previous questionnaire survey, we also find that most of the public does not have enough awareness of gut health. So popular intestinal health is crucial. During the Northwest Exchange Conference, we were fortunate to find a lot of teams related to the intestinal aspect. After understanding it, we found that there were some bottlenecks in the communication between the teams. So we established the iGEM China Gut Alliance under our organization, aiming to focus on the public's intestinal health from the perspective of college students and high school students, provide help for more iGEM teams in the intestinal area and giving full play to our value.

 

The Gut Alliance

At present, through unremitting efforts, our alliance members include NWU-CHINA-A, HS_China, HZAU-China, LZU-CHINA, LZU-HS-PRO-A, NEU_CHINA, WS_HZBIOX, NJMU-China, UCAS-China, a total of nine teams.

 

 

 

the Gut Alliance

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Since its establishment, our alliance has held the following activities.

1.Theme Lecture

Purpose:

In order to make the public better understand these problems, as the organizer, NWU-CHINA-A united another five iGEM teams participate in the event: LZU-HS-PRO-A, LZU-CHINA, HS_China, WS_HZBIOX, and NEU_CHINA. In addition, we sincerely invited Canhui Lan, the president of the institute of zealotin biotechnology and executive chairman of the China gut conference, professor Daixu Wei of the department of life sciences and medicine of northwest university, and Ms. Xiaojuan Dong, chief nurse of the first department of internal medicine of the fifth people's hospital of shaanxi province, to help us popularize intestinal knowledge in order to protect our intestinal health better!

    

Canhui Lan: President of the Institute of Enthusiastic Intestinal Biotechnology, Editor-in-Chief of Zealotin Daily, Executive Chairman of the China Gut Conference, Founding Secretary-General of Tsinghua Sheng Pharmaceutical Alumni Association.

 

Daixu Wei: Professor of the Department of Life Sciences and Medicine of Northwest University. He is currently a member of the Chinese Society of Biomaterials, the Chinese Chemical Society, and a scientific advisor of Beijing Blue Crystal Microbial Technology Co., Ltd.

 

Xiaojuan Dong: Chief nurse of the First Department of the Fifth People's Hospital of Shaanxi Province, a standing committee member of the Tuberculosis Infection Control Professional Branch of the China Antituberculosis Association, and a member of the Beijing Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Innovation Alliance.

 

Lecture content：

Canhui Lan, president of the enthusiastic gut biotechnology research institute and executive chairman of the china gut conference, recorded a congratulatory video for our event.

 

 

Professor Daixu Wei brought a popular science lecture 《Intestinal Diseases and Treatmentso》.

 

 

Ms. Xiaojuan Dong, chief nurse of the first department of internal medicine of the Fifth People's Hospital of Shaanxi Province, explained the upper gastrointestinal bleeding to us.

 

 

LZU-CHINA：

Lanzhou University 's iGEMer talked about the occurrence and detection of colorectal cancer.

 

 

NWU-CHINA-A:

Northwest University's iGEMer introduced the relationship between Helicobacter pylori and gut health to us.

 

 

HS_China:

HS_China's iGEMer introduced lactose intolerance and the treatment of lactose intolerance to us.

 

 

NEU_CHINA:

NEU_CHINA's iGEMer introduced the harm of sugar-free beverages to gut health flora and the role of prebiotics and probiotics in gut health to us.

 

 

WS_HZBIOX:

WS_HZBIOX 's iGEMer introduced the relationship between sugar substitutes and intestinal flora.

 

 

2. Brochure

In order to expand the influence of our alliance and better disseminate gut health, our alliance has produced a brochure, written by all alliance teams. It aims to focus on the public's gut health problems and enriches the public's gut knowledge from the perspective of college and high school students in order to jointly protect intestinal health.

 

Brochure

3.WeChat emoji

With the rapid development of the Internet era, the emergence of memes can be described as a sub-language in the social field under the Internet. In order to make our organizations subtly add vitality in daily life, and increase the public's liking and familiarity with us, we have designed a set of intestinal emoji, which has been fully uploaded to the WeChat platform. According to statistics, the total number of cumulative downloads is 119 times, the total number of cumulative sending is 1487 times. Welcome to download and use!

 

WeChat emoji

 

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Line chart of the amount of WeChat emoji sent   

 

4. The cooperation with Beijing Rexinchang Biotechnology Research Institute Co., Ltd.

At the beginning of the establishment of the alliance, Mr. Lan, the president of Beijing Rexinchang Biotechnology Research Institute Co., Ltd. , expressed his support for our Gut Alliance by recording a video, and he also invited us to participate in the "Intestinal Science and Art" popular science illustration tour activity initiated by his Institute. We were very honored to participate in this activity.

 

In September, we held a two-day exhibition of paintings at Northwestern University's Taibai Campus. It attracted many people to our exhibition, who can scan the QR code attached to the painting to learn more about it. In addition, we also gave them a lecture and got good feedback.

 

We hope that through this exhibition, more and more people will pay attention to intestinal health problems, so that our alliance can play a greater value.

 

Overall photo of the exhibition

 

iGEMers explain the idea of these painting

 

iGEMers in this exhibition

 

Intestinal iGEMers service platform

In the process of communicating with HZAU-China, a member of the Gut Alliance, we found that there were problems between many teams that could not communicate and solve in a timely manner, so we germinated the idea of establishing an intestinal iGEMers service platform.

 

This was built by the platform UCAS-China, when any team of the gut project encounters experimental or other difficulties, it can ask for help through such a platform, and when other teams see it, they can help solve it. For example, through such a platform, we learned that HZAU-China has the problem of "the effect of theophylline on the intestine" and "what kind of microorganisms produce short-chain fatty acids", and we tried to help solve its problems.

 

At the same time, we also had some experimental questions, such as "How to avoid high mutation rates after digestion?" and "What causes the disappearance of electrophoresis bands?" "HZAU-China helped us with our answers and was a great help to our project. (Click here for more information http://45.88.183.146/)

 

Q&A between NWU-CHINA-A and HZAU-China

 

Future outlook

In China, QQ is one of our most commonly used social media. So we used QQ to establish a group chat and set up iGEM China intestinal alliance organization. We will hold various activities on intestinal health through group chat to pass on more intestinal knowledge to the public and better protect intestinal health! Now our alliance is still gradually expanding, and more teams are welcome to join. In the future, our alliance will continue to go to schools to publicize intestinal knowledge at different grade levels, produce brochures and comic books, use easy-to-understand language to popularize intestinal knowledge, and also push out intestinal science on the WeChat public account, hoping to make the public pay more attention to intestinal health. In addition, our alliance will continue to serve the iGEM teams that do intestinal related aspects every year, providing a platform for exchange and cooperation, and the iGEMers of our alliance can also provide valuable experience for teams interested in doing intestinal research in the future.

 

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