PART1: Co-organized the Intestinal Congress and cooperated in the preparation of iGEM intestinal project reference manual
On August sixth, 2021, we and other six teams including
SUSTech-China、BUCT、SZU-China、NJMU-China、HZAU-China and BNUZ-China jointly hosted the Intestinal Congress.
At the congress, we not only discussed our projects, but also wrote the 2021 Intestinal Program Reference Manual jointly.
The agreement includes several parts, of which we are responsible for writing the ethics and safety part.
As it is known to us, intestinal-related projects often involve genetic modification of engineered bacteria,
which is related to the public ethics of previously popular genetically modified products,
and also includes the ethics of bacterial factory in vivo.
Therefore, our team has compiled relevant Chinese and foreign laws and policies, iGEM official regulations
and practical cases of previous projects for the ethics of animal experiments,
the public ethics of genetically modified products and the ethics of the introduction of engineered bacteria into the body,
hoping to provide references for subsequent iGEM participating teams.
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to download the Intestinal Program Reference Manual.
PART2: Hosted an offline meeting
During the summer vacation, we hosted a meeting with LZU-China to discuss our projects and exchange our ideas.
Their instructor Professor Liu Jinrong and some other team members came to Nanjing University
to participate the meeting personally.
In the meeting, Mr. Liu gave us useful suggestions, which benefited us a lot.
PART3: Meetings
In addition, we also participated in several communication meetings online and offline,
including offline and online mid-term Nanjing iGEM Association Meetup and CCiC (Conference of China iGEMer Community).
At these meetings, we exchanged and interacted with many teams.
During the period, many teams put forward some meaningful questions about our project,
to a certain extent, it has mentored the improvement of our experiment and modeling,
such as giving us the idea of bacterial factory in vivo
for our later modeling work and some technical related issues that we need to consider in the experiment.
Our team members also actively participated in these meetings, carefully listened to the projects of other teams,
and put forward our opinions and suggestions to help them in some ways.
PART4: Nanjing iGEM Association
In the first offline communication meeting in Nanjing, we formed the Nanjing iGEM association
with NJU-China, NAU-China, CPU-China, NJMU-China, NJTech-China and NNU-China,
which aims to make the iGEM team in Nanjing unite and help each other,
discuss and solve the problems encountered in the experiment,
and make joint efforts to publicize synthetic biology or other biology related science popularization.
At present, we have created the WeChat Official Account (NIA one family) and published some articles.
After that, we will continue to keep the organization, hoping to help the iGEM team afterwards.
PART5: Cooperate with Nanjing_NFLS to carry out publicity
At the first offline meeting in Nanjing, we communicated with the members of Nanjing_NFLS,
the iGEM team of Nanjing Foreign Language School.
It was decided that members of Nanjing_NFLS help us prepare for contacting and communication,
and we were responsible for curriculum preparation and cooperation to bring a shared lesson on synthetic biology
to the high school students of Nanjing foreign language school.
On May 17, this sharing class was successfully carried out,
the high school students had a better understanding of the knowledge of synthetic biology.
In the final summary, we received a lot of praise.
Some students even said that because of our course they have strengthened their determination
to engage in biological research in the future.
We are very happy to see that we promoted synthetic biology to everyone
and stimulated high school students' interest in biological research through our efforts.
