Team:CSU CHINA/Sponsors

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We would like to thank all the sponsors for their generous funding and helpful guidance. Their sponsorship allows us to gain a lot from participating in the iGEM competition.

Central South University，located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, ranked in the country’s “World-class University Construction University A”. Without the generous support of our Central South University and the School of Life Sciences, our project would not be able to proceed. Thanks to Professor He Hailun and Professor Xia Zanxian from School of Life Sciences, Central South University for providing reagents and instruments.

SnapGene Viewer is a revolutionary software that allows molecular biologists to create, browse and share annotated DNA sequence files up to 1 Gbp. With SnapGene, annotating features in DNA sequences becomes easy.

provided us with a license to use its software during the iGEM competition, which provided a lot of help for our plasmid design.

Thank you, XMU-China! The online communication between XMU-China and our team is very unforgettable. The team found an effective way to remove toxic chemicals in agricultural products. Based on the introduction of the project, we have enhanced mutual understanding. We make it possible to exchange ideas and information. The toxin-antitoxin system designed by XMU-China has inspired us a lot!

Thank you, NUDT CHINA, for the in-depth cooperation with our team! NUDT CHINA held online and offline meetings with us. The experimental group and the modeling group exchanged project progress and future plans. We have obtained deeper cooperation, such as borrowing experimental instruments such as atomic absorption spectrophotometers, sharing laboratories, using testing tools, conducting education and publicity together, exchanging questionnaires and analysis, modeling, art, and HP, experiments, etc. The aspects are closely connected, promote each other, and make progress together.

Xiangya Hospital Central South University was founded in 1906. It is located in Changsha, a famous city of Chu and Han, with a rich culture. It is one of the earliest western medicine hospitals in China. Thanks to Dr. Luo Wei from Xiangya Hospital for accepting our interview. He explained in detail the harm of cadmium to the human body and the knowledge of diseases caused by cadmium, which benefited us a lot.

Thanks to Changsha No. 21 Middle School for providing us with venues and opportunities, allowing us to convey the basic knowledge of synthetic biology to students through exciting and straightforward courses.

Thanks to the Summer Social Practice Group of “Small Molecules”, let us walk into the backward areas, stimulate children to be interested in synthetic biology and arouse their attention to cadmium pollution.

Thanks to Yali Middle School for providing the opportunity to give lectures on synthetic biology to some middle school students from YALI High School and some members of the NUDT-IGEM team.

Thanks to the Water Quality Inspection Bureau of the Middle Section of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project for allowing us to visit the Changsha Jinxia and Kaifu sewage treatment plants so that our project will develop in the direction of the best design to solve local problems.

Thanks to Professor Yin Huaqun from the School of Resource Processing and Bioengineering of Central South University for guiding our project, which has benefited us a lot. We also paid attention to the importance of logic and details in this process.

Thanks to Associate Professor Li Juan and Dr. Zhu Mingdong from Hunan Agricultural University for introducing our interview. Let us realize that the chemical industry and geological conditions lead to the accumulation of cadmium in the soil and made useful suggestions for our project.