Collaboration
For better understanding the meaning and impact of iGEM competition, we collaborated with two other 2022 iGEM teams named Buta Factory (East_China) and Feed Family (Shanghai_United). Buta Factory team aimed to improve the way of producing n-Butyl ethanol by using biosynthesis method. Feed Family, on the other hand, aimed to improve digestion of feed by adopting the strategy of multi-enzyme synergistic degradation
1. Collaboration with the team Buta Factory (East_China)
The meeting for collaboration with Buta Factory team (East_China) was hosted by Nikki (Yang Yujie) of our team. At the beginning of the meeting, Nikki presented the information of our team TeMoZerapy including the team logo and team name explanation, experimental principles, impact and meaning of our product, and promotion for our peripheral products.
Online meetup with Buta Factory (East_China)
In terms of the discussion part with Buta Factory, we shared our experiences and ideas about the filming of the promotion video, discussed the information of our labs, and exchanged the contents of the business plan. For the communications about the promotion video, we provided specific and meaningful advice to the team members of Buta Factory on the way of filming the promotion video by drawing inspiration from their own project in the aspect of experimental principles, experimental materials. and experimental products. For the discussion of our product, we exchanged some biological information about our lab processes such as the main materials used in the lab like PDRG-1 and n-Butyl ethanol, the method used to produce our ideal product, and the impact of our product in the society like reduction in pollution and increased production efficiency. For the communications of the business plan, we mainly discussed the financial planning part including the source and price of the raw materials since this part we both agreed was the most complicated.
2. Collaboration with Feed Family (Shanghai_United)
Since us two teams were both located in Shanghai, we decided to organized an offline meetup in the form of after tea party.
Tea Party with the team Feed Family (Shanghai_United)
The collaboration with the team Feed Family (Shanghai_United) was hosted by Nikki(Zheng Qi) Firstly, Nikki presented the information about our team and our project goal. In addition, we also explained our experiment principles and advertisement for charity sales. In return, they also shared their project design and their ideas for online charity sales. After their introduction, we agreed that this project undoubtedly contains a great economic and ecological value, which is greatly appreciated by us.
Later on, we discussed with each other how to make promotion videos and ideas for selling our peripheral goods. According to the mutual sharing of promotion video shooting, we could see there was a difference between the video style between the two teams. We focus on utilizing the personification method to show how we solve the issue and our video highlights artistic and metaphorical expression. They preferred the classical style of sharing their daily and illustrating their experimental design in a sola part. They appreciated our idea but in the meantime, they pointed out that this video might be too obscure for some audiences. Thus, after this collaboration, we decided to add the explanation for our metaphorical symbol in the video to make it better understandable.