Team:UCAS-China/Collaborations

Collaboration

Like other iGEM teams, we focused on collaboration and communication with other teams since it’s of great importance to share ideas with others to improve our projects and only when unite can we convey the spirits of iGEM better.

1. China Synthetic Biotic Delta

CSBD

Invited by WHU-China, we joined along with Tongji-China to form a strong partnership. Coincidentally, members of the partnership were from three major cities with policy preferences on biotechnology industry, Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan, thus we named the partnership China Synthetic Biotic Delta. Through several discussions, we determined our future collaborating directions: Modelling, Safety and HP. Check out our Partnerships for more!

2. Meetups

a) Beijing Meetup invited by BIT

On Aug 13th, BIT invited UCAS-China and other 6 undergraduate teams to attend a meet-up, including Peking, Tsinghua-A, Tsinghua, BUCT, CAU-China and BNU-China. During this meetup, eight teams gave presentations of their projects, shared ideas, put forward suggestions and had a great time.

we communicated more about the design and experiment itself not the idea. Through their presentation, we found the opportunity to have collaboration with them and discussed the possibilities preliminarily. Also, from their projects, we saw more potential in our switch when hearing some teams' applications such as the regulation of molecular synthesis and fermentation. We believed in the future, our switch can not only be applied to microbial therapy, but it can serve as a temperature indicator or for other use.

We were inspired greatly by the fantastic ideas from other iGEM teams and also found some problems of our project from their suggestions such as the safety problem of our switch.

Thanks for invitation from BIT and all iGEMers who participated enthusiastically!

b) Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCiC)

CCiC

At the end of summer vacation, from August 27th to 31st, more than 70 teams from all over China came online to join the 7th CCiC. As the second year of participation, we excitedly embraced the opportunity to communicate and have fun with other iGEMers. We were delighted to know that everyone stays healthy after this striking pandemic and were well prepared to learn from other iGEMers and synthetic biology lovers.

In the conference, we gave presentation of our own project and sought advice from judges and iGEMers, listened to other iGEM teams' presentation as well as their interesting and even romantic stories. It was a cozy but fruitful experience. During our participation, we built good friendships with some teams and began further communications and collaboration. We appreciated the opportunity, looking forward to meet them again!

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