Team:GXU China/partnership

Partnership

How we met each other

In May this year, after the preliminary consultation of many agencies and professional stuff, Jiangnan_China decided to begin their bio-sunscreen project with an objective to protect coral reefs and the marine ecosystem. However, Wuxi city, where Jiangnan Univrsity is located, was not a costal city and didn’t have enough resources related to coral reef research. Thus, they decided to find a professional research institute with coral reef research experience to help them better complete the project and achieve their original objective.

Most coral reefs in China are distributed near the coast of southern China mainland and South China Sea, and as the most influential university in Guangxi Province (province in southern China), Guangxi University has School of Marine Sciences and even a special research centre for coral reefs. Thus, they tried to contact Guangxi University but it didn't work out. Finally, they found our team and decided to make cooperation with coral reef research centre from our help.

Why we began our partnership

From GXU-China’s help, Jiangnan_China made connection with Prof. Liang from School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University successfully.

Actually, GXU-China was freshmen in iGEM competition and had just constructed our formal team in the end of May. Jiangnan_China wants to repay our unselfish assistance to their bio-sunscreen project, they, as a team with iGEM experience of several years, decided to help us better understand the competition and mentor us get into shape as soon as possible. GXU-China can also help Jiangnan_China build a long-term and more stable cooperation with Guangxi University.

Based on several friendly communications between Jiangnna_China and GXU-China on email, we made a consensus to build up a partnership since June.

What Jiangnan_China did for GXU-China

As an experienced iGEM team, Jiangnan_China helped GXU-China to be familiar with the competition rules and criterion, understand our future work and they also gave us some advice on how to conduct the competition during the epidemic.

May: Early stage communication with PI and leader form GXU-China by email.
June: They invited GXU-China to join China iGEM Online Group and introduced them to current China community members in order to support the better integration of GXU-China to the regional iGEM community.
July: To have a deeper and more convenient daily communication, they established a bilateral QQ chat group with GXU-China.
August: Jiangnna_China and GXU-China held an online meetup to introduce both projects and we gave constructive advice for each other.
September: Continuous communication in our previous constructed QQ chat group. They gave us some suggestions on how to conduct Education&Communication work and how to Human Practice work meaningful and contributed to our whole project.
October: We hold an online meetup to share some problems during the preparation of Giant Jamboree and web page building.

What Jiangnan_China recieved from GXU-China

May: Early stage communication with PI and leader form GXU-China by email. Jiangnan_China got in touch with School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University by GXU-China’s help. They especially thank Prof. Chen from GXU-China for her recommendation.
June: They made their first informal conference with professors from Coral Reef Research Centre by the help of GXU-China.
July: They built a cooperation relationship with Prof. Jiayuan Liang from School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University.
August: Jiangnna_China and GXU-China held an online meetup to introduce both projects and we gave constructive advice for each other.
September: To better communicate with both Guangxi University and our partner laboratory in the School of Marine Sciences, we invited MSc student Qin to join their team as an advisor to give us constant guidance related to coral reefs and marine science.
October: We hold an online meetup to share some problems during the preparation of Giant Jamboree and web page building.

What we will do in the future

Continues Communication with each other to make a deeper cooperation between Jiangnan University and Guangxi University.
Jiangnan_China received financial support from investors and we will help GXU-China make their project to the reality in the future.