Team:Shenzhen SFLS/Collaborations
Collaboration with SCIE-SIAT
In order to enhance the communication between iGEM teams and improve the project, we and SCIE-SIAT co-sponsored a meet-up. We invited eight iGEM teams to join the meet-up in Shenzhen College of International Education. Professor Haoqian Zhang from Chinese Academy of Science was invited to join this meet-up as well. Each team had a 15-minute presentation. Before the presentation, Professor Zhang explained the evaluation criteria for iGEM competition in detail and offered many valuable suggestions toward each team. After the exhibition of project, each team had a 10-minute question time. It was beneficial for each team to understand the projects of others. At the same time, it gave a chance for us to offer or obtain suggestions from others.
Collaboration with BGIC-Union
Meet-up On Oct 5, 2017, we communicated with BGIC-Union in a Starbucks coffee shop and exchanged details of the projects on both sides. Both project are related to CRISPR/Cas9 technology and have the same off-target problem. It is therefore possible to collaborate in modeling. We compared several articles on predicting off-target effects in mathematical ways and they recommended us a better method named “Cutting Frequency Determination (CFD) scoring method”. Thus we improved our model. They also supported our modeling group a lot by introducing us biological theory. Besides, we offered them several examples of molecular kenetics model and we still keep in touch after the meet-up.
We also shared the schedule of wiki design and they accept to offer some help. We found that both of us wanted to make a pop science video about biosafety level (BSL) with similar ideas, so we decided to do it together. In addition, they provided useful information about Safety Form and Part submission as well as verification experiment design. What’s more, we exchanged our ideas about Human Practice in the areas of education and public engagement.
A Video about Biosafety Level By communicating with BGIC-Union, we decided to cooperate to produce a video about biosafety level. In order to contact and discuss the issue at any time, two groups formed a WeChat group. After looking for a lot of information and revisions, we set up a transcript of text and pictures and translated the English version. Then, Our members used their rest time to record and make the video.
Speeches in Donghai Primary School Attached to Shenzhen Foreign Languages School and Shenzhen Baihe Foreign Language School On October 25, 2017, we made a speech together with BGIC-Union in Donghai Primary School Attached to Shenzhen Foreign Languages School. Together, we gave a brief introduction about synthetic biology as well as cancer and its therapy. We also held a biology knowledge contest and found that the students there knew more about biology than we expected! On October 27, 2017, BGIC-Union and our team gave out a lecture in Shenzhen Baihe Foreign Languages School. In the lecture, we introduced the iGEM and our project to the students.
Collaboration with SUSTech-China
On July 10, 2017, we held a diminutive meet up in Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) with their team. At that time, we were informed that our previous project about treating Trichophyton rubrum infection by defensins had a low feasibility. We then got the chance to discuss the project with Prof. Hongmin Zhang, an instructor of SUSTech-China, and asked for some questions about expressing a mutated defensins in bacteria. Prof. Zhang gave us some valuable suggestions and pointed out that it was time-consuming.
We also exchanged the ideas about our cancer project deeply and one of their members offered some help on our modeling.
Collaboration with SZU-China
