Team:SDSZ-China/Team
Team
Mr. Huan Zhao
Role: Primary PI
Description: PhD in molecular biology at Capital Normal University; Teaches junior and senior biology at The Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University.
Mrs. Caifeng Chen
Role: Secondary PI
Description:
Lining Pan
Role: Team leader, experiment designer,and machine designer
Dream: Gain better programming skills, and apply these skills in my daily life.
Zichen Tian
Role: Team leader, wet lab worker, Wiki contributor
Dream: Being a neurosurgeon....Exploring the wonderness of neuroscience.
Runqi Zhang
Role:Team Leader; Wiki contributor;responsible for human pratice
Dream: Using humanistic approach to solve scientific conundrums.
Lin Jiang
Role: Device and software designer; photographer
Dream: Create things that can make people live a better life.
Ruohong Wang
Role: Team Leader, Part Page editor, lab worker
Dream: Letting more people know biological technology will not lead to the extinction of human being. Have a cat as pet. Go to the south pole. Fall in love with reading.
Junyi Yang
Role: Wet Lab Worker; Wiki contributor
Dream: Be myself while using both my head and heart to understand and protect both creatures and the environment
Ziwei Li
Role: Wiki Editor, Project Advertiser
Dream: Learn four more languages and have a thought-provoking discussion with my hamster. Take photos of the tangerine sun in all eight continents and write poems for them.
Zimo Li
Role: Wiki Editor, Project Advertiser
Dream: Adopt a cat and do reading assignments with her. To learn how to ride a hoverboard.
Jianhan Hu
Role: team member; documentary reporter
Dream: I want to become a doctor and save people’s life. I hope one day I will be able to use my power to improve people’s life quality.
Yuming Gao
Role: lab worker
Dream: Construct a tree house; to be a biomedical engineer; to make things happening only in science fictions come true.
Zimai Lan
Role: Wet lab worker; Lab report writer
Dream: To be an environmental writer and spread my ideas through writing; To explore the universe a little bit.
Longling Tian
Role: Experiment Designer, main lab worker
Dream: To care for more lives, to be a biochemist, and to become a top music game ranker.
Chang Guo
Role: Interviewer; responsible for communication
Dream: Chat with Sigmund Freud; Travel around the world on a hot air ballon with endless Chinese food (Peking duck especially)
Attributions
As a team of high school students, we are sincerely grateful for all the help we’ve received from our PIs, Mr. Zhao Huan and Mrs. Chen Caifeng, who both taught us through the basics of molecular biology, lectured to us about lab safety, and have always been there for us to provide guidance on all problems we encountered.
Our school doesn't have funding for our iGEM team, so we raised money to pay for registration through Crowdfunding, an online platform, and we also received a extremely generous sponsorship from Duewest Education.
We also give our most sincere appreciation to Duewest Education for training our presentation.
As we sought to connect our project with the real world, we attribute our gratitude to the following list of people and organization:
Mr. Xing Ruwen: He is the chief engineer in Tianjin Pacific Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company. He is an experienced manager who has been working on Chemical method of producing UDCA-contained drugs for years. He helped us by informing us the two disadvantages of the chemical synthesis of UDCA, and approving our biological synthetic approach towards producing UDCA. He also helped further acknowledging the advantages of our approach by informing us the danger of chemically producing UDCA
Mr. Li Jinlong: He works as the production manager and he also participates in marketing department’s work in Tianjin Pacific Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company. He helped us by accepting our interview on the market condition of UDCA related drugs. He also suggested to test our project in Tianjin Pacific Chemical & Pharmaceutical Company if our project proves to be successful.
Dr. Wei Xinyi: She is a doctor at Xuanwu Hospital. She helped us by patiently answering all the questions we have towards the medical usage of UDCA- related drugs. She also helped us connecting to patients who were suffering from hepatic diseases and have recovered by using UDCA related drugs. Because of the patients, we were able to understand the side effects of chemically synthesized UDCA.
Animals Asia Foundation: The foundation helped us by approving our visit to the Sichuan Bear Rescue Centre. Because of their approval, we were able to interview the staff of Sichuan Bear Rescue Centre to understand the living status quo of Asiatic Black Bear.
Also, we want to give special thanks to everyone that pitched in our crowdfunding, and all teachers in SDSZ international education department and biology faculty for supporting us throughout the year!
