Project Support and Advice

PIs

• Professor Guoqiang Chen: Primary PI; provided instructions to general design; provided some reagents for our experiments.
• Doctor Peng Li: Secondary PI and supervisor of our team; provided instructions to the project and experiment design; organized teamwork training and lab safety training; helped us greatly with lab management.

Advisors

• Wenhao Song: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team leader; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Yangwode Jing: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team leader; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Lihan Zhong: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team leader; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Jinhao Liu: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team leader; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Peixuan Zheng: 2020 NEU_CHINA iGEM team leader; provided plasmids for two component system; provided guidance on our wetlab design and troubleshooting.
• Xiaofei Ge: 2019 Tsinghua iGEM team member; provided guidance on experiment troubleshooting.
• Zikang Huang: 2017 Tsinghua iGEM team leader; provided guidance on project design; revised our writing for impact grant.
• Jiahao Teng: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Jie Yan: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; helped us get familiar with iGEM competition.
• Jianfan Yang: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; helped us get familiar with iGEM competition.
• Xushan Zhang: Undergraduate student in social science major in Tsinghua; provided suggestions on our writing and human practices.
• Yuhan Yang: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; helped us with promotion video.
• Yiyuan Huang: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; provided guidance on project design, team building, and experiment troubleshooting.
• Siyi Chen: 2021 Tsinghua iGEM team member; helped us get familiar with iGEM competition.

Others

• Professor Lan Xie (School of Medicine, Tsinghua University): provided valuable suggestions on our project design during brainstorming stage.
• Dr. Yiqun Gu (National Institute of Health Sciences, Male Clinical Research Unit): provided valuable suggestions on our project design.
• Fang Ba (PhD student at ShanghaiTech University, member of ShanghaiTech China iGEM 2016): provided plasmids containing integrase; provided valuable suggestions on wetlab design and troubleshooting.
• Professor Jinming Lin (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University): provided guidance on our hardware design of microfluidic chip.
• Zheni Zeng (PhD student in the Natural Language Processing and Social Humanities Computing Laboratory at Tsinghua University): provided suggestions on software design.
• Taiyan Zhou (leader of team BIT, and leader of hardware group of BIT iGEM 2021): provided guidance on our hardware design.
• Shangjian Liu (PhD student in School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University): provided guidance on our hardware design and model prototype production.

Financial Support

• Funding of Undergraduate Academic Competition, Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office, Tsinghua University
• Tsinghua Xuetang Life Science Program

Lab Support

• Guoqiang Chen's lab (School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University): provided reagents and plasmids for our wetlab experiments.
• Jinming Lin's lab (Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University): provided guidance on our hardware design.
• Tian-Ling Ren's lab (School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University): provided material and equipment on our hardware production.

Project History

We started brainstorming in March this year, generating initial ideas for the project. The wetlab preliminary experiments started in April. The drylab experiments started in June.

About the synthetic biology course

We are a team from Tsinghua University. Our school teaches courses related to synthetic biology for undergraduates.