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Many hands make light work. Other than our independent competition process, we also got involved in collaborations with other teams and some communities. Through communication and interchange with different organizations, we not only learned their design ideas but also made friends with them, which we treasured a lot. For us, iGEM is not just a game, it is an oasis where all the synthetic-biology lovers begin their friendship.

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High School

GDSYZX

Thanks to our friend, SYSU-CHINA team, we contacted the GDSYZX team (a high school team from Guangdong). During the process of preparing for the competition, we are always willing to share our design ideas with them, and we are also willing to help them to summarize the troubleshooting.

After getting in touch with the GDSYZX team, we and SYSU-CHINA team organized a seminar with them. Through the web conference platform, we introduced the basic concepts of directed evolution and the latent threats of the CRISPR system in clinical application. In addition, we also shared our ideas and inspirations of our project design, and gave them some suggestions on their work.

Click here to see GDSYZX’s collaboration page.

Undergraduate

SYSU-CHINA

This year, we have established a long-term and in-depth communicational relationship with our new friend SYSU-CHINA team for the same focus on directed evolution. At the beginning of the project design, both of us were eager to find partners in similar fields. Therefore, We started to know each other and got into closer contact.

Since there was no opportunity for SYSU-CHINA to enter the laboratory at the beginning, our collaboration began with modeling construction. We not only conducted detailed discussions on the model construction of both teams, but also provided sincere suggestions and important help to the model design details of the other team's project.

Click here to see details of our model partnership.

Meanwhile, we jointly organized and completed the public science education work on the directed evolution. We prepared online lecture materials together, and held online conferences in Guangdong and Shanghai respectively to carry out public science education work on directed evolution. As a result, students gave sincere appreciate to our lecture and arouse strong curiosity for directed evolution.

Collaboration with SYSU-CHINA

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Moreover, we have always been accompanying each other no matter if we encounter setbacks or make any progress. After this long-period preparation of the game, our relationship has far surpassed that of two teams only working together, and more like caring partners supporting each other all along.

Click here to see SYSU-CHINA’s collaboration page.

Tongji_China

Tongji_China is our old friend, with whom we unsurprisingly kept close contact with. Though both of our teams are in Shanghai, the COVID-19 outbreak separated us from each other. To break this barrier, we decided to communicate online and exchange things by express delivery. And as lucky dogs as we were, we both got permission to conduct experiment, even though our team didn’t return to lab entirely until it was July.

While collaborating with Tongji China, we shared our opinions and suggestions on both projects. Furthermore, we held several net-meetings to exchange our views on molecular cloning experiments and provided each other with plasmids as needed.

Before constructing our report system for screening, we found that there was no available plasmid containing RFP and terminator that we wanted for our project. When hearing about our needs, Tongji_China gave us two plasmids containing these bio-parts generously, which helped a lot.

Collaboration with Tongji_China

Meanwhile, we learned that their project aimed at using vesicle proteins as signaling molecules this year, which needed plasmid Arg1 and Arg2, just like what we did in 2018 iGEM project. They also invited us for further communication about features of these proteins and the in vitro ultrasonic testing experiment. We were pleased to communicate with them about the vesicle proteins and shared our experimental experience on this work. We also provided them with plasmids containing Arg1 and Arg2 of the vesicle proteins, which we hoped could provide help for their experiment.

Click here to see Tongji_China’s collaboration page.

SJTU-software

Same as past years, we kept a close relationship with SJTU-software. Because of the convenience of being in the same school, SJTU-software was the only team who we had communicated face to face. As a team focused on wet lab, we can figure out some problems that they have neglected in experimental analyzation. In fact, our ideas-designable experimental tools-was one of the inspiration for their project.

As a software team, SJTU-software also helped us a lot in a brand-new way. They recommended some useful database tools for us, in order to facilitate the alignment of certain special sequences. Beyond the project, we shared our experience on production of promotion videos and presentation videos, key points of presentation, and skills of communication.

Click here to see SJTU-software’s collaboration page.

Community

Global Meetup

In order to have a further communication with other teams interested in directed evolution , we took part in Global Meetup ceremony held by iGEM committee. We fully participated in the meetup and held our own discussion session on directed evolution, and we received lots of questions about this technology and its application.

We not only set up a webinar but also shared our project design and our screening method. As for the implementation of directed evolution, the first and critical thing is to choose a possible evolution direction . At the same time, we also refer to many existing studies.

Besides our own session, we also attended other sessions and had a great time communicating with other teams and iGEM committee.

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Collaboration with Global Meetup

CCiC 2020 (from lab to fab)

Affected by the epidemic, this year CCiC conference adopted an online conference form to host the ceremony. And the theme of this year's CCiC is "From Lab to Fab", which aims to encourage everyone to transform the results in the laboratory into effective manufacturing, so that synthetic biology can practically participate in life and change the world.

We not only to shared our project in this ceremony but found ways to solve our puzzles as well. We also made friends with many teams from China there. Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, all teams around world are in the same dilemma. However, as long as we know that we are not alone, any difficulties we met and would meet will seem like to be superable.

iGEM Southern China Regional Online Meeting

Unlike many other meetups that are always held after the competition, this year the 4th Southern China Regional Online Meeting, held by SZU-China, has provided a platform for iGEM teams from all over China to learn from each other and establish collaborations before competition. On June 14, 2020, all the participants were invited to join the meeting on ZOOM.

We made our initial project share with teams all over China. Moreover, we got contact with SYSU_CHINA team in this meeting and confirmed our partnership.