Team:Jiangnan China/Collaborations

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Worldshaper-Nanjing

SZU-China

Jilin_China

NEU_China

TUDelft

Estonia TUIT

Exeter

Estonia Nantes

RUM-UPRM

Drifting Bottle

Promote communication-- Meetups

Due to COVID-19, we were unable to carry out offline meetups, but through online meetups, we still had meaningful communications and received useful feedbacks.

Eastern China iGEM Meetup

On July 11th, the Eastern China iGEM Meetup hosted by Jiangnan_China was successfully held on ZOOM. We offered a platform for teams to exchange ideas and found potential partners to conduct further cooperation.

More than 350 members of iGEM teams from 24 universities across China participated and had a lively discussion. CEO of Beijing Zeno Technology Zhu Tianze, After iGEM Zhang Nan and After iGEM Hassnain attended the meeting and delivered speeches. At the meeting, iGEM teams ZJU-China, CPU_China, ECUST_China,NJU-China, ZJUT_China_B and Jiangnan _China shared their project development status. CEO Zhu Tian, Zhang Nan and Hassnain commented on some projects, shared experience of iGEM in participating, and explained many changes of competition in response to epidemic in 2020.

The meet up that lasted for a whole day was rich in content and full of value, which not only promoted the exchange of knowledge in synthetic biology, but also enhanced the friendship among iGEM teams.

Logos of ECIM and all participating teams

Distinguished guests we invited: Zhu Tianze, Zhang Nan and Hassnain

Projects of ZJU-China, CPU_China, ECUST_China,NJU-China, ZJUT_China_B and Jiangnan _China

Northeastern coastal areas online Meetup

On July 11th, the Eastern China iGEM Meetup hosted by Jiangnan_China was successfully held on ZOOM. We offered a platform for teams to exchange ideas and found potential partners to conduct further cooperation.

More than 350 members of iGEM teams from 24 universities across China participated and had a lively discussion. CEO of Beijing Zeno Technology Zhu Tianze, After iGEM Zhang Nan and After iGEM Hassnain attended the meeting and delivered speeches. At the meeting, iGEM teams ZJU-China, CPU_China, ECUST_China,NJU-China, ZJUT_China_B and Jiangnan _China shared their project development status. CEO Zhu Tian, Zhang Nan and Hassnain commented on some projects, shared experience of iGEM in participating, and explained many changes of competition in response to epidemic in 2020.

The meet up that lasted for a whole day was rich in content and full of value, which not only promoted the exchange of knowledge in synthetic biology, but also enhanced the friendship among iGEM teams.

Poster of Northeastern coastal areas online Meetup

Meetup with SZU-China

On July 11th, the Eastern China iGEM Meetup hosted by Jiangnan_China was successfully held on ZOOM. We offered a platform for teams to exchange ideas and found potential partners to conduct further cooperation.

More than 350 members of iGEM teams from 24 universities across China participated and had a lively discussion. CEO of Beijing Zeno Technology Zhu Tianze, After iGEM Zhang Nan and After iGEM Hassnain attended the meeting and delivered speeches. At the meeting, iGEM teams ZJU-China, CPU_China, ECUST_China, NJU-China, ZJUT_China_B and Jiangnan _China shared their project development status. CEO Zhu Tian, Zhang Nan and Hassnain commented on some projects, shared experience of iGEM in participating, and explained many changes of competition in response to epidemic in 2020.

The meet up that lasted for a whole day was rich in content and full of value, which not only promoted the exchange of knowledge in synthetic biology, but also enhanced the friendship among iGEM teams.

Meetup with SZU-China

Give guidance--Mentor of Worldshaper-Nanjing

Why did we decide to mentor Worldshaper-Nanjing?

By chance, a high school team Worldshaper-Nanjing from Nanjing got in touch with us. Their subject about Yarrowia Lipolytica is similar to our subject in some technical aspects, so we guided them as a mentor.

What did we do as a mentor?

Due to the situation of COVID-19 in early 2020, we could not give our guidance offline, during the following preparations, we held several online meetings. We introduced the background knowledge and current technologies of our respective projects. At the same time, we helped them learn more about the rules of iGEM, such as medal judging standards and information about the Giant Jamboree. In terms of modeling, since their model data is based on experiments, we suggested that they consider the accuracy of experimental detection to determine whether the model is reliable. When they had troubles with wiki , we also gave guidance in time.

Logos of us two teams

Wiki Helping Part

PI from Worldshaper-Nanjing: Students from our team were using templates from the third party, and then edit those code by themselves. But when we were uploading to the server of iGEM, we had some problem: after uploading the files, the format of them, css or ji, could not be showed. So would you like to help us check where the problem is? I will show you the website of the pages.

Xia: You could check a link about the citation of js.

Xia: To cover the original format by css, you could check from another link. And there are detailed code in it.

Xia: If there is any other problem of covering the format, you could also send the pages to me. I could help you to check them because I don’t know how to cover if I did’t meet up the problem before. But I would like to help you to think out a way.

PI from Worldshaper-Nanjing: We can not appreciate it more.

Improve experiment--Collaboration with NEU_China

Aim

In order to measure the degradation efficiency of cyanobacteria, NEU_China helped us measure the degradation efficiency of cyanobacteria after all died as a blank control.

Methods

1. Take 1ml of cyanobacteria and ultrasonically break.

2. The broken algae solution is suction filtered with a 0.45mm cellulose acetate filter membrane, and the suction pressure is lower than 50kPa, and washed twice with clean water.

3. After the suction filtration, fold the filter paper into the bottom of the centrifuge tube, add 10ml of acetone solution (measured with a graduated cylinder or pipette), and melt in the refrigerator (-20℃) in the dark for 12 hours.

4. After taking it out, return to room temperature. After mixing, pipette 1ml and centrifuge for 1min (make two parallels), take 100µl of the supernatant in two parallels and 200µl in two parallels, and measure the absorbance E663 and E645 at 663nm and 645nm respectively. Calculate the chlorophyll content with the formula Ca=10.115E663-1.877E645

Results

Ca(200µl)=2.435474

Deliver experience--Drifting Bottle of iGEM

NAU-CHINA, NJMU_China, NJTech_China, NJU-China

Why did we launch the project ‘Drifting Bottle of iGEM’?

In order to commemorate the meaningful and memorable competition. We launched the Drifting Bottle Project, inviting teams NAU-CHINA, NJMU_China, NJTech_China and NJU-China to join us.

What does Drifting Bottle of iGEM mean?

Each team shared the same notebook to record the difficulties and moods in advancing the project, and wrote down comments on the previous team or encouragement for the next team.

How did each team benefit from this project?

This offline memorial book can tell all teams that many teams are working hard just like themselves, and some of the precious experiences and emotions can be delivered to each other. The handwritten form is more humane than e-mail, and the exchange of physical gifts can bring more surprises and strength to all the participants. This is the original intention of Drifting bottle of iGEM, so that iGEMers and those who will be engaged in scientific research in the future can enjoy the waiting process of experiment, and face failures and challenges more calmly in future scientific exploration.

Participants with the memorial book

Enhance publicity--Monthly magazines

In science communication part, we released a monthly magazine to broaden their horizon in the area of biology toward the middle school students, who know something about biology but not so much deep. The operation of the periodical will be passed down to the next iGEM team in our university and more and more students can acquire biological knowledge through our monthly magazines.

Why did we collaborate with NAU-CHINA to do science communication?

To ensure the monthly magazine have abundant and various knowledge, we invited NAU-CHINA and ECUST_China to complete two pieces of magazines. We believe that an increasing number of iGEM teams will join us and deliver it all the time.

What did we do?

NAU-CHINA and ECUST_China presented their project’s overview and concept in a readable and comprehensible language ,and presented the future prospects of the project in the monthly magazine. And as the organizer, Jiangnan_China was responsible for designing and editing.

Monthly magazine published by Jiangnan_China and ECUST_China

Monthly magazine published by Jiangnan_China and NAU-CHINA

Explore more--Other activities we participate online

Accessibility through Language and Art

We participated in this project by sending team UteRus our promotion video and helping them translate videos of other participating teams into Chinese. This allowed our team to connect with other iGEM teams and reach a wider audience with our project.

Promotion video cover of Jiangnan_China

Synbio: infinite possibilities

To educate people about synthetic biology, we joined in team TUDelft’s video project, making an informative video stating our project idea to show what we can achieve as iGEMers.

Here is the video:Click here to see the video

Pengwei is expressing the idea of Jiangnan_China

Zitong participated in ’Guess the Synbio’

Guess the Synbio

We took part in a small game designed by team Estonia TUIT. Our main task was to correctly guess objects shown on the screen and then, according to these words combine the main words associated with biology and lab and work out the rebus, which was full of interest.

Battle of the Bacteria 2020

We made our team’s own iGEM2020TOPTRUMPS card in the bacterial TOP Trumps Game launched on Instagram by team Exeter. In the game, We filled out a template card with a few facts about our favorite bacteria, which was truly fascinating.

The game card designed by Jiangnan_China

The poster about cyanobacteria designed by Jiangnan_China

Art exhibition

We designed a poster about cyanobacteria for the Art exhibition held by team Nantes, giving other students and non-professional people publicity to iGEM competition and synthetic biology, who are knowledgeable in the this field.

EnviroSpeaks

Team RUM-UPRM is aware of how important it is to target contamination around us with Synthetic Biology. So we joined in EnviroSpeaks by designing short video that communicated cyanobacteria problem which is presented in our locations and how it affected our biodiversity.

Click to have a look!