Team:XMU-China/Attributions
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge to XMU-China this year. Our school announced to postpone the reopening of school. What’s more, each college in Xiamen University had different epidemic prevention requirements, the time at which students could return to school was also quite different. Some of our team members didn’t get back to school until August, lab work was limited due to the lack of time. We’ve tried our best to present the best as we can and hope it can inspire the iGEMers in the future.
The iGEMers of XMU-China are responsible for all the iGEM work this year, which includes idea, lab work, wiki, paperwork and so on. Also, we communicate and collaborate with many iGEM teams this year. All the work done by our team members and the help received from others are shown below.
Brainstorms
Start from Mar. 2020: All team members.
Guided by PI: Baishan Fang.
instructors: Gezhi Xiao, Aihui Zhang and Xiaoyan Zhuang.
student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Jiacheng Huang, Yansong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Limin Qiu, Fude Chen, Shiyi Zhai and Yang Liang.
Project
One of the best news under the pandemic was that some of our team members were approved to get back to school in June. After receiving the related trainings, this group of members started the lab work in July, while the rest started in August.
1. Molecular cloning and circuit construction
All student members.
Gene synthesis:
Genes fromBBa_K3332030-BBa_K3332040BBa_K3332045-BBa_K3332050BBa_K3332052-BBa_K3332064 and BBa_K3332091-BBa_K3332093 BBa_K1096002 BBa_K1334002 were synthesized by Genscript BioTech.
BBa_K880005 BBa_K823004 BBa_K823005 BBa_K823006 BBa_K823011 BBa_K823008 BBa_E0430
BBa_P0140 BBa_E0430 BBa_Q04510 and BBa_I0500 were acquired from Spring 2019 DNA Distribution Kit.
BBa_K3332051, BBa_K3332065-BBa_K3332090 and BBa_K3332094-BBa_K3332100 were acquired by Standard BioBrick Assembly.
Guided by instructors: Aihui Zhang and Xiaoyan Zhuang, Yali Wang.
student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Fude Chen, Langxing Liao.
2. Characterization
All student members.
Guided by instructors: Aihui Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhuang and Yali Wang.
student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Fude Chen, Langxing Liao.
3. Proof of Concept
All student members.
Guided by student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Jiacheng Huang, Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Fude Chen Langxing Liao.
4. Hardware & Software
All student members.
Construction: Qingliu Wang.
Art Design: Yangqi Deng.
Guided by instructors: Aihui Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhuang and Yali Wang.
student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Fude Chen, Langxing Liao.
Model
Yixian Zheng, Siru Zhou, Ruijie Mo, Ruomeng Bi, Jinzhu Mao.
Guided by student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li.
instructors: Yali Wang, Aihui Zhang.
advisors: Jiacheng Huang, Junhong Chen.
Human practices
1. Human practices
Planners: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Ruomeng Bi, Ruijie Mo, Meihao Ou, Siru Zhou, Jinzhu Mao and Junhong Chen.
Art Design: Yangqi Deng, Fude Chen.
Participants: All student members.
Guided by student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li.
2. Science Communication
Planners: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Ruomeng Bi, Ruijie Mo, Meihao Ou, Jinzhu Mao, Shuling Xiao, Xiaoyu Wang, Yixian Zheng, Shi Zhang.
Art Design: Yangqi Deng and Zinuo Huang.
Participants: All student members.
Guided by advisors: Gezhi Xiao.
student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li.
3. Supporting Entrepreneurship
All student members
Guided by student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li.
Team
1. Collaboration
Ruijie Mo, Ruomeng Bi, Meihao Ou, Siru Zhou, Yixian Zheng
Guided by student leader: Jisheng Xie.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen.
Difficult technique supported by PI: Baishan Fang.
2. Partnership
Ruomeng Bi, Ruijie Mo, Meihao Ou, Siru Zhou, Yixian Zheng
Guided by student leader: Jisheng Xie.
advisors: Tianyu Feng, Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen.
Difficult technique supported by PI: Baishan Fang.
3. Safety
Shuling Xiao, Xiaoyu Wang and Shi Zhang, Zhichun Yang, Meihao Ou
Guided by instructors: Yali Wang.
advisor: Wenyao Shao, Yang Shi.
student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li.
Parts
1. Contribution
Shi Zhang, Shichen Geng, Meihao Ou.
Guided by advisor: Junhong Chen, Fude Chen.
student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li
2. Engineering Success
Xiaoyu Wang, Shuling Xiao, Shichen Geng, Meihao Ou.
Guided by advisor: Junhong Chen, Fude Chen.
student leader: Jisheng Xie, Yuan Li
3. Improve a previous project
Jisheng Xie, Ruijie Mo, Ruomeng Bi, Meihao Ou.
Guided by advisor: Junhong Chen and Gezhi Xiao.
Other Work
1. Wiki
Webpage: Shengyang Zhang.
Art Design: Yangqi Deng.
Paperwork: All student members.
Guided by advisor: Shiyi Zhai, Junhong Chen and Limin Qiu.
student leader: Jisheng Xie
2.Art design
PowerPoint: Yangqi Deng, Fude Chen.
Logo, banner, animation and souvenirs: Yangqi Deng.
3. Presentation coaching
Instructors: Yali Wang.
Advisors: Junhong Chen, Gezhi Xiao and Langxing Liao, Limin Qiu.
Team training
Our university don't have an iGEM or synthetic biology course. We learnt the knowledge from the textbooks and iGEM official website before we started to work. (Feb. 2020)
Guided by student leaders: Jisheng Xie and Yuan Li.
advisors: Xingyu Chen, Zinuo Huang, Junhong Chen, Jiacheng Huang, Yansong Chen, Tianyu Feng, Limin Qiu, Fude Chen, Shiyi Zhai and Yang Liang, Haitao Wang, Yajuan Peng and Wenyao Shao.
Supported by PI: Baishan Fang.
Acknowledgement
We would like to thank our PI Baishan Fang for providing us laboratory, material and instruments. We also want to thank professor Yi Yang for providing the sequence of iNap, and thank Hongyu Su from Xiamen University Broadcasting Station for recording the voice of videos. In the meantime, We thank Qinghua Yang, Tingting Chen for their kindly help in the teaching of equipments and the borrow of reagents. And we thank Bocen Lin as well for her kindly assistance in contacting teachers from the school of public affairs and providing the proper solution about our human practices.
Besides, we thank Benchling and Mathworks for providing the license of free use to our team.
Last but not least, thanks to all members in iGEM 2020 XMU-China
who striked for the wet and dry lab work, love you guys more than three thousand times!
Wish you all the best and find your GEM in the future life after iGEM 2020!