Team:SUSTech Shenzhen/HP/Silver

Human Practice

HP

As an interdisciplinary project, we focus on the communication between synthetic biology and other fields, such as behavioral psychology, optogenetics and brain imaging science. The aim of our interdisciplinary project is to promote the integrations of disciplines in different fields and spark new ideas. Meanwhile, these different integrations can also provide a high viewpoint on synthetic biology for undergraduates. Moreover, our engagement in public awareness successfully spread the knowledge of C. elegans and synthetic biology in neighboring communities.

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Promoting interdisciplinary communication

4. Nueroimaging Lecture Group Photo

To promote communication between different fields and spread ideas in synthetic biology, we cohosted two synthetic biology lecture sessions with Prof. Zhihao Li in Shenzhen University.

In the lecture, we mainly focused on fundamental research and clinical application. In the first session, we gave the audience an introduction about the latest advancement of brain imaging method and the importance of joining force between multiple disciplines.(1, 2) In the second session, we focused on the ideas, methodologies and applications of synthetic biology. This is also our effort to promote the idea of applying engineering principles in our daily life and research.

1. Brain imaging part of interdisciplinary lecture

2. Prof. Li interacts with the audience

In the second session, we focused on the ideas, methodologies and applications of synthetic biology. This is also our effort to promote the idea of applying engineering principles in our daily life and research.

3. iGEM project introduction in interdisciplinary lecture

We sincerely hope that these lectures could give our audience a new perspective and open up new choices for them in the future.

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Engagement in junior high school education program

Also to spread the idea of synthetic biology, we gave a introduction about the basic knowledge of synthetic biology by opening our lab to the junior school students from Sichuan province. About 30 students visited our lab and showed great interest in synthetic biology.

6. Synthetic biology introduction

We delivered a lecture about the history and applications of synthetic biology. In the lecture, we mainly talked about some knowledge about optogenetics and several interesting studies including the dragonfly cyborg Draper DragonflEye and the Havard hybrid stingray. Besides, we also introduced some classical ethological and psychological experiments including Pavlov's dog and Skinner box that inspired our experiments. We also gave them a chance to use the microscope to observe living C. elegans.

5. Education program of Sichuan's junior high school

7. C. elegans observation

This activity not only gave these junior students some new knowledge about synthetic biology and iGEM, but also expanded their horizon to spark them interest in synthetic biology.

We had an opportunity to show these young kids our research and the optic and microfluidic devices we build for the devices. Most students had never heard of these knowledge we mentioned, but we were still able to show these are practical uses in our research and life

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