iGEM2021_BIT-China designed Cultural and Creative Products & Teaching Aids for Science Popularization
In 2021, our team has created our own creative products and purchased or designed our own synthetic biology teaching aids to disseminate synthetic biology and iGEM.
We designed our own creative products-keychains as well as cultural shirts from our project to make more people aware that yeast can be used as engineered bacteria to produce target molecules and also as biosensors to heterologously express receptors and detect flavors.
In addition, we designed our own "gene expression vector" teaching aid. Blank gene expression vectors were provided to the students, and the expression packets on the vectors were different. After listening to the lecture, the students learned the important components of gene expression vectors, such as "promoter, target gene, terminator, replication site, and marker gene".
We made all the elements into stickers, and the students could paste the stickers according to their knowledge to build a complete gene expression vector and choose their favorite target genes according to their preferences. Eventually each student can get his or her own gene expression vector. The target genes are designed as fluorescent proteins of different colors, which correspond to our different colored taste detectors --- our own creative products keychains, and the students who construct them correctly will get our keychains as a reward.