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WINTER CAMP

After the 2016 Giant Jamboree, team members of BIT-China cannot wait to share their experience of participating in iGEM. With the coming of the cold winter, we came up with an idea to start a winter camp and light the fire. Students of different majors including life science and technology, electronic engineering, software, art design and so on came to our publicity.

We invited our instructor Prof. Chun Li to give a general introduction about synthetic biology and iGEM competition, which inspired many students’ interest in synthetic biology and they wanted to know more about the logic design and skills required to start a project.

Many of them wished to take systematic courses to have better understanding of the core concept about synthetic biology including “design, build and test”. They would like to not only gain more besides biology knowledge, but also extend to how to give a good presentation and how to integrate the mathematical equations into the iGEM project. Based on their needs, we prepared several lectures for everyone may be interested in the skills required for iGEM competition, the speakers were our instructors and team members. Here are the topics:

Our GPCR model based on three presuppositions:

• (1) The history and development of synthetic biology (Chun Li)
• (2) Literature searching and reading (Hongyu Yang)
• (3) Photoshop training (Zeyan Li)
• (4) Academic writing and English presentation training (Zeyan Li)
• (5) System biology and mathematical model (Pengcheng Zhang)

iGEM MEETING

In the late September, in order to promote synthetic biology and iGEM, we held a preaching meeting about synthetic biology and iGEM for all the students of all majors in BIT. At the meeting, we had a total of three links, the first link was to introduce iGEM and synthetic biology to the students. The second link was brainstorm, so that students can think about our project's innovative point and flash point with our project's background. The third part was a free exchange session. Students can communicate with us any project and team related things. After this meeting, the innovation of our project is further sublimated.

OPEN-ENDED ACTIVITY

At the 85th anniversary anniversary of Beijing institute of technology,we are invited to show iGEM and our project to people.In our display case,we tell people what’s Synthetic biology. And we introduced our former projects to people. In addition,we want to let more people know about our project this year,and we need to get their good feedback. Finally,In this Open-Ended Activity,we communicated with more than 3000 people,and got 500 suggestions.

TEAM UP WITH YAN’AN UNIVERSITY

This year，we invited four students from Yan'an University to be our team members to design and implement our project together. In this process, they not only expanded their knowledge of synthetic biology and improve their experimental skills, but also learned how to build an iGEM team. All those will help them to establish an iGEM team next year on their own. More importantly, we are closer to the idea of iGEM and spread synthetic biology to more people.

MEDIA CAMPAIGN

In September,we were interviewed by the Propaganda Department of Beijing Institute of Technology,and we has launched a website campaign on the BIT official website of synthetic biology and iGEM.In the course of the interview,we carried out scientific exchanges on the knowledge of sweet substances.

COOPERATION WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES

At the latter phases of our project,we organized University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Lanzhou University and Jilin University to make a big chat about what we had done so far and held three scientific speeches to introduce the development and the common use of sweeteners in our daily life,which contributed to the increase of popularity of iGEM as well as Synthetic Biology.Ultimately,we collected the critical advice from the audiences in time and accept one of them,which recommended us to set saccharose as the standard,after that running the test would be more reasonable.

EXPERIENCE SHARING IN ITCCC

In October, 2017, BIT-China was invited to take part in the the CGEM conference held by International teenager competition and communication center. About 8 teams participated in the conference. All of them made splendid speeches to present their own projects and discuss with each other. During the special journey we got to know plenty of exciting ideas and got many useful help.

MEET UP IN YANQI LAKE

At the meeting in Yanqi lake organized by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, we met with microbiology experts and researchers . Speaking to a largely technical audience, our team members presented our research and networked with leaders in the molecular biology industry. Through showcasing our poster and iGEM wiki, we engaged in stimulating conversations, from the significance of iGEM to us as undergraduate, to our shared vision with iGEM about the importance of engaging the public on the safety and ethics of synthetic biology.