It is a great honor to be part of the great, helpful iGEM family and to collaborate and explore projects together. We gained a lot of inspiration, encouragement and advise over the last 7 months through interviews, conferences, workshops and all other different activities.
Here we listed the collaborative events with other teams by dividing into 5 sections: Research, Wet Lab, Human Practice, Education and Communication, Model.
Research
With ASTWS-CHINA, we made three lists as our own research reference and also for the good of future iGEM teams if needed, which you could find detailed info in CONTRIBUTION page.
a list of some previous projects using PETase and MHETase
a list of research paper for reference
a list of laws/ regulations/ policies about plastic recycling in the process of collection, production and such.
We consulted Team Jiangnan-China at the early stage of the program. Advisor Tingan Zhou showed us their project design this year for inspiration and experience gained past years.
Wet Lab
We had meeting every 1-3 weeks with ASTWS-China to share our progress in wet lab, discuss problems and provide mutual support.
For example:
ASTWS-China planned to use plastic fragments as substrate which turns out not responding well, IvyMaker-China shipped PET powder we used to them to continue experiment.
Using the same test PET powder, IvyMaker-China and ASTWS-China did a comparison test of the enzyme activity efficiency between surface display system and free enzyme system. More details would be found in partnership page.
We joined the PLASTICase Community with 6 other teams: CPU_CHINA, SMS_shenzhen, TJUSLS_China, DUT_China, KEYSTONE and BJEA_China. With CPU_CHINA as the initiater of our first roundtable event, IvyMaker-China helped to invite Dr. Xiang from Shanghai Environment Group Co., Ltd =to be our guest speaker to share her insight about plastic pollution.
We have gained a lot from the project sharing, juding session and also the after-event communication with the teams.
We interviewed Lanzhou JIN TU DI Plastic Products Co., Ltd together with DUT-China and CPU-China, it is our honor to communicate with this company's chief manager Mrs. Sun and her student Qi Liu about the current industry situation related to plastic and corresponding national management laws.
We had continuous communication with ASTWS-China. We will have a monthly virtual meetup to share the feedback of our HP activities for each other's reference to further improve the project. For example, ASTWS-China has shared us their interview experience with a local Sewage Plant, and we shared with them feedback gained from attending CCiC8.
Education and Communication
We lauched an online public education and communication lecture called "GENE HACKER" with ASTWS-China, Worldshaper-Nanjing and Worldshaper-Shanghai. We invited highschoolers and their families interested in synthetic biology or bio in general to join this event and shared background info and lab design of our projects.
IvyMaker-China participated in the "Life Science" to "Bio Manufacturing" Science Fair in Jiangnan University together with Team Jiangnan-China. Two of our members supported in a creative scientific experiment called "Blow the Balloon using Bottle" as volunteers to guide kids aged 8-10 through their experiments.
Model
We had several meetups with ASTWS-China to explore the potential of the model design, problems we met in process.
