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        <p style="font-size:18px">In May 2017, when our team was researching the safety topics of our pesticide mate, we contacted with two senior Botanical experts in Kunming Institute of Botany, China Academy of Science. Scientists showed great interest in our project, and they share their ideas and knowledge on these topics with us.</p>
 
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<p style="font-size:18px">The main topics of our discussion were, whether there are ingredients on the surface of plants that could be potentially damaged by our product and whether traditional chemical pesticides have that serious effect on plants as stated in some reports.</p>
 
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<p style="font-size:18px">↑One of the letters sent by Yunchang, to Jianchu Xu, one of the botanists in Kunming Institute of Botany.</p>
 
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<p style="font-size:18px">Q1: What is the difference of the wax-chitin-protein layers between plants and scale insect?</p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">Q2: What are the common problems brought by the traditional pesticides to the plants?</p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">Q3: (We realized later that there is a problem within our question) Can SacB promoter induces the SRRz lysis system when sucrose exists specifically?</p>
 
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<p style="font-size:18px">We sent this email to the other scientists as well and received two replies from them.</p>
 
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<p style="font-size:18px">Thanks to their (Jianchu Xu, Ph.D.; Gui Heng, Ph.D.) kind replies! </p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">From their letters, we know that:</p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">1.Plants sometimes secret chitinase as an immune mechanism, thus theoretically there is no chitin on the surface of plants.</p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">2.Plants may be harmed when the concentration of pesticides is high or when specific pesticides lead to allergy.</p>
 
<p style="font-size:18px">3.Plants keep sucrose as their energy storage material, thus would not release it and induce our bacteria to release enzyme. Our ‘sucrose-induced’ system is safe on the surface of plants and would work on scale insect.</p>
 
 
<p style="font-size:18px">Via frequent correspondence, we set up a long-term communication with scientists within this field. Thanks for their patience and interest!</p>
 
  
  

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Practice 1: Popularization of Synthetic Biology & Our Project

In order to introduce biological science to the public and help more people understand synthetic biology, our iGEM team members conducted an activity to popularize synthetic biology and our project at Lianhua Mountain Park.

On August 5-6, 2017, we went to Lianhua Mountain Park in Futian District, Shenzhen.We not only popularized the knowledge about synthetic biology to the tourists in the park, but also explained our new project. We also introduced the methods of killing scale insects on the succulent plants, and gave lovely succulent plants to tourists.

During the activity, we seized every chance to get citizens' opinions of our project and scale insects. And once they agreed to provide valuable perspectives toward our project, we would request their subscribing for further help. After the activity, we kept updating on-going processes of our project and disseminating questionnaires for improvement.

In order to introduce synthetic biology in a comprehensive and attractive way, our team members also held the activity called Follow Us & Get Free Succulent Plants. In this activity, many people were attracted by lovely succulent plants. Through this practice, we successfully attract public attention. More than 200 people started to follow our on-growing process online. Some of people encouraged us to continue our program.

Practice 2: A Synthetic Biology Popularization Forum

We, team SMS_Shenzhen, along with team SIAT_SCIE, held a synthetic biology popularization forum. We invited team SIAT_SCIE to come to our school and we gave a speech to students in Shenzhen Middle School* (middle school part) on Oct.27. This forum aims to spread knowledge of synthetic biology to junior high school students, provoking their interest and enthusiasm in biology.

(*: Shenzhen Middle School is made up of two part: the high school part and the middle school part. We went to the middle school part and held this forum with middle school students.)

Before the forum, team members from both teams introduced iGEM competition to the audience. It helped the audience have a quick view of iGEM.

The forum was divided into three parts. The first part was the popularization of basic synthetic biology knowledge. It included basic conceptions of synthetic biology such as DNA and plasmid and the technological knowledge like PCR and digestion. The second part of the lecture was the practical application of synthetic biology. In order to help middle school students understand the importance of synthetic biology better, we made it interesting and funny for them to gain a better understanding. At the end of the forum, both teams introduced their project.

Practice 4: Open-Lab Day for Teens in Our City

In order to publicize our project to and get innovative ideas from the creative young students, we planned and held this Open-lab Day for middle school students from the whole city. During the day, we invited them to visit our laboratory, which enabled them to obtain a deeper impression on synthetic biology.

200+ teens came to our campus that day and our student guides delivered lots of presentations to give them some background knowledge on synthetic biology and tell them what we planned to do at that time. Additionally, we even taught them some basic experimental skills like how to use pipettes.

We had 5 student guides in total that day. After the events, they reported that they not only practiced their skills of presenting knowledge to the younger students, but also learn something from them. ‘I hope that we can always keep the sacred revere in our heart as those junior high students, when we are in the lab.’ Says Yinan, one of the student guides.