Education and public engagement

Summary

It is an opportunity for every single person to understand the competition, together with a new frontier in life science. In addition, all of the members actively organized various academic activities, and actively participated in disparate meetings inside and outside school to promote the majority of teachers and students to comprehend the field of life science, as well as to improve the international influence of iGEM. At the same time, it also made our team members accumulate cutting-edge knowledge, and provided a strong guarantee for the improvement of the subject

CPU BioX Club Academic Association

In the joint efforts of CPU_CHINA iGEMers, we established the first life science academic association of China Pharmaceutical University---- CPU BioX Club (Figure 14). The daily activities of CPU BioX Club include:

1. Journal Club Mainly by students of CPU BioX Club turns to explain the literature, so that other associators can understand the life sciences within various sub-disciplines of cutting-edge knowledge well (Figure 15).

2. Holding the debate contest We encourage all students to participate in the debate contest, and feel the beauty of life science.

3. Organizing thematic academic reports According to the content which students were interested in, we invited some teachers, sometimes, of the relevant areas to come to academic reports on their research areas to explain for the students Q & A doubts.

Teaching in high school

The member of our team taught the students who interested in biology for the knowledge of immunology at Bohai University affiliated high school (Figure 18). In addition, We were also actively promoting iGEM, so that more people would understand the iGEM well, and guided more people to join them in the development of synthetic biology to contribute their own strength.

Communicating with other teams

We hold academic exchange activities with the other two teams, NJU-CHINA and NAU-CHINA.

Asking the team of Nanjing University for experience

At the Nanjing University of Life Science Building Conference room, the two leaders talked about progress on their own subjects and the status quo of the team. Yu Zhou, the leader of Nanjing University team, told us about their recent sessions of the iGEM, and explained some important time node, like human practice attention points and the contents of the two co-operation and other issues. Also, he showed our team around their labs.

Inviting NJU-CHINA to attend academic debates.

In order to enhance the exchange between two teams, we invited the iGEM team of Nanjing University to attend the academic debate (Figure 20). We conducted a debate about whether epigenetic modification changes can cause disease debate debates at the China Pharmaceutical University Conference Center:

Positive side: CPU _CHINA

Attitude: epigenetic modification can cause disease changes

Negative side: NJU-CHINA

Attitude: epigenetic modification can not cause disease changes

The two sides hold different arguments, and even cited frontier knowledge of self-argument and deduction to express their views. Also, two teams were a lot of gains during the debate, as well as developed a further exchange on the issue of respective topics.

Participating in experience sharing meeting at Nanjing Agricultural University

Invited by the iGEM team of Nanjing Agricultural University, we participated in experience exchanging meeting (Figure 21). The meeting invited Haoqian Zhang, the predecessor of Peking University iGEM team, to shared his experience. According to his previous experience, all the notes on the formation of the team and participating i