Team:CSU CHINA/Collaborations
OVERVIEW
Our team has accomplished various forms of collaboration with various teams, including communicating material selection suggestions and safety precautions for wet experiments, dry experiments, education and science communications, etc. We enjoyed the charm of collaboration by enlightening each other on experiments, pondering public feedback together, and so on. Through a variety of collaborative activities, we have been able to continuously optimize our project and build lasting friendships.
NUDT_CHINA
After establishing a partnership, teammates of each team stayed in regular Wechat contact with each other and carried out diverse cooperative activities. We hold both an online meeting and an offline meeting, since the epidemic situation changed constantly. Additionally, we collaborated in the field of education. We processed and analyzed the questionnaire data jointly.
NUDT_CHINA has put forward many constructive suggestions on our wet lab based on existing research in this field, which has optimized our loop. For modeling, they inspired our model solving ideas, and we learned from each other about model implementation tools.
A group photo with NUDT_CHINA
For more details of the collaboration between the two teams, please click Partnership
SZU-CHINA
After establishing a partnership, teammates of each team stayed in regular Wechat contact with each other and carried out diverse cooperative activities. We hold both an online meeting and an offline meeting, since the epidemic situation changed constantly. Additionally, we collaborated in the field of education. We processed and analyzed the questionnaire data jointly.
NUDT_CHINA has put forward many constructive suggestions on our wet lab based on existing research in this field, which has optimized our loop. For modeling, they inspired our model solving ideas, and we learned from each other about model implementation tools.
A group photo with SZU-CHINA
SUSTech_Shenzhen
On May 15th, we had an online conversation with SUSTech_Shenzhen. We introduced our projects first and asked each other questions. Since both projects involved the implantation of engineered cells/bacteria into humans, we talked about the hygiene of the transplantation and both sides said that aseptic procedures would be strictly followed. We advised our partner to control their gut microbiota balance. SUSTech_Shenzhen suggested that we take into account the toughness of the embedding material to prevent engineered cells from leaking out, which gave us a brand-new insight.
Online conversation with SUSTech_Shenzhen
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Tsinghua
After designing the questionnaire and co-writing the preliminary plan, we addressed a lecture in Yali middle school with Tsinghua. Together, we analyzed the feedback we got from high school students and discussed how to make them more accessible to synthetic biology.
A lecture at Yali middle school
Meetup: 2021 Central China iGEM Project Meetup on July 24th, 2021
In order to learn from other teams and improve our project, we signed up for Central China iGEM Project Meetup held by HUST-China and participated in it online. Participants from five teams including WHU-China, NUDT_CHINA, HZAU-China, HUST-China and CSU_CHINA, were invited to give presentations and take part in discussion. This meeting prompted us to contact some teams for further collaboration.
We had in-depth communication with other teams about embedding technology, which encouraged us to think over the feasibility of the technology we currently intended to adopt. (Finally, this problem was solved through cooperation with ShanghaiTech_China).
A group photo of representatives attending the conference
The screenshoot of iGEM Central China iGEM Project Meetup online meeting
Meetup: Before CCiC on August 24th
Five teams participated in “Before”CCiC Meeting held by XMU_CHINA. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct a preview of the CCiC exhibition. Additionally, we hope that projects can learn from each other and members can help each other.
Meetup: CCiC on August 27-29th
iGEMer in China ushered in the 8th Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCiC) on August 27th. Several representatives of CSU_CHINA went to Fudan University in Shanghai to attend the offline meeting. Although affected by the aftermath of the epidemic, we could not all gather in the offline venue, the way of offline and online interaction would also bring different experiences to everyone.
Thanks to the communication platform provided by CCiC, we talked to ShanghaiTech_China and decided to cooperate on sodium alginate embedding technology, including but not limited to sharing embedding technology considerations and data with each other. Also, experts from Fudan University suggested that we should test the whole loop as soon as possible. Listening to the report of each team, especially the teams with similar designs, has provided us with new hints. We communicated with our PI about the above harvest in CCiC, developed an experimental plan for testing the whole loop, and finally succeeded.
A group photo of representatives
Presentation on CCiC
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Special Issue: Into China, Into iGEM (ICII)
"ICII" refers to "Into China, Into iGEM". This is an Education & Collaboration activity jointly sponsored by CPU_CHINA and NAU-China. 18 iGEM teams from all over China were invited to participate. As the 18 teams were located in different provinces of China, by motivating participant teams to deliver lectures regarding synthetic biology and team projects at local middle schools or science and technology museums, a national publicity of synthetic biology was achieved. During the lecturing sessions held by different teams in different locations, we encouraged the specific lecture team to display project information and posters of other cooperative teams to realize a better exhibition effect. In addition, the exhibiting process of every team was documented by video clips for the production of a final promotion vlog.
Click to see ICII mapWe exhibited the posters of ICII and introduced the project profiles of 18 teams to community residents on Science Popularization Day.
