This is a well-known "solar term song". China is a country with profond ancient agricultural civilization. Our ancestors rooted in the earth beneath their feet, in the busy sunrise and sunset, they felt the changes of nature, and gradually summed up a romantic law - solar terms.
In the quiet turnover of the seasons, the iGEM cycle, which spans the whole year, also progresses in an orderly manner. We build a diverse team in winter, let inspiration burst and collide in spring, put ideas into practice and improve constantly in summer, and take our project out into society in autumn to welcome the arrival of Jamboree. We continue to identify and solve problems, trying to connect the project with society through Human Practice, spreading the health concepts related to sugar substitutes and the notion of the emerging discipline of "synthetic biology" to the wider public. In this fulfilling time, SCU-China 2022 footprints all over the factories, schools, cultural relics, laboratories. We have written many stories about "how we interact with the world".
A diverse team was built, with 24 members from 9 different colleges.
We gathered to take introductory synbio courses and receive our predecessors’ experiences.
The team members put forward their ideas on the subject. Among them, an independent erythritol metabolic niche attracted our attention.
We gained experience and inspiration from previous years’ excellent projects, which greatly influenced our project design.
Merging scientific education with sport is an exciting idea.Athletes looked for missing essential parts of plasmid in different corners of the school and assembled them into a new one.
In parallel with pre-experiments, we recorded molecular cloning tutorials for our newcomers unfamiliar with lab work and posted them online.
Will it taste good when traditional Zongzi meets erythritol?An attempt to integrate science popularization and cultural promotion into our traditional festival.
At the end of the first trisector of the human practice cycle, we shared our project design in iGEM North-South Forum.Also, we met members of ZJU-China and had a deep conversation about the problems we’ve both encountered.
The concern of stakeholders is always important to us. We interviewed and visited the producer and utilizer of erythritol: Yuxin and Genki Forest.They told us a lot about erythritol and our project from the perspective of industrialization.
We considered and summarized the problems raised by stakeholders and contacted academic experts to give different opinions.
With the heat still on, we went deep into the historic districts in Chengdu to experience the charm of sugar culture in the traditional art of sugar painting.
We bring health, synthetic biology, and life concepts to children of all ages.
ACMA was held at Sichuan University to introduce synthetic biology to students with related majors.
Entering the intense Wiki Freeze phase, the team collates the year's work and tries to express it in the best way.