Team:NAU-CHINA/Attributions
We have always been a student run team; founded and led by students. Our instructors, advisors, and mentors have aided us
when we needed their help. NAU-CHINA iGEM team members
were responsible for almost all parts of running our iGEM
team:brainstorming, background research, organizing
workshops and events, project design, searching
protocols, ordering supplies and lab works.
Chenrui Qin is the leader of Team NAU-CHINA in 2017. Her primary responsibilities include recruiting the team, leading the design of the project, fundraising for project expenditure, hosting a workshop and interacting with other IGEM teams, and coordinating between instructors and team members. She also delivered several work update reports to our supervisors.
Wet Lab Experiments
Our project consists of multiple wet lab modules.
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Xinyi Jiawas responsible for the expression of antifungal peptide cecropin A and its functional verification.
Linlin Chen was in charge of plasmid construction and yeast transformation experiment.
Long Yuan contributed to the initial design of the project and the expression of antifungal peptide. He was in charge of editing and establishing the framework of our Wiki page.
Zhaoxi Liu assisted in the construction of the suicidal system and sensing module. She participated actively in the production of a short video.
Hangyu Duan constructed the plasmids for kill switch module as well as the following yeast experiments.
Tong Cheng is a molecular cloning master in the team and constructed a majority of BioBricks.
Yaxuan Wu was in charge of establishing the framework of our Wiki page, constructing a “DON” -degrading enzyme expression plasmid for the following targeting test.
Wan Chen was in charge of testing the prokaryotic expression of ZEN degrading enzyme.
Yueyue li constructed BioBricks in PSB1C3 plasmid and assisted in the testing function of ZEN degrading enzyme.
Wei Wang and Yuqian Jiang were in charge of the interlab study experiment and constructing the Yeast promotor-recombinant plasmids. Wei Wang also made his efforts in drawing the DON standard curve using HPLC and testing blue light induction-photoactivatable genetic switches.
Wet Lab Experiments
Qili Qian and Wei Chen established an evaluation model to filter which antifungal peptide mostly suits for our project, and some dynamic models to predict our sensing module、degrading module and kill switch module. In order to make the results more intuitive, they simulated our models by MATLAB. For some results, they use GUI to make it visualizable.
Software
Qiaomu Ren was responsible for the part of software. He proposed a method to detect wheat scab basing on machine learning. He also analyzed information visually basing on information retrieval and natural language processing.
Human Practice
Ruixuan Guo was mainly responsible for the work of Human Practice in this year's competition, mainly including a series of publicity education activities and project investigation and promotion activities. She and her partners participated in workshop, campus propaganda, in-depth investigation, questionnaire production and so on.
Yi Zhang engaged actively with the public. She communicated with professors and other iGEM teams and did the field investigation and soical investigation. She also involved in the arrangement of some daily affairs.
Shengzhe Li was involved in the arrangement of some Daily affairs. He also took major part in uploading wiki contents online.
Wiki Construction
World Ma ;World Wu and Guanghu Zhang took major part in uploading wiki contents online and were in charge of the coding of our wiki.
Art design
Yajing Weng and Shu Huang are fantastic designers. They designed most of the artwork used in our Wiki page, as well as in the presentation and on the poster.
We fortunately had a large number of advisers this year, all of them gave us valuable suggestions when we turned to them for help.
Thanks to:
Gu Dongfang ;Luo Xudong for guidance in our experimental design.
Ye Xianfengfor helping us to run a few experiments
Wang Ziyan for all the help and advice on data analysis and machine learning
The help of our mentors and professors is greatly appreciated and acknowledged below.
Thanks to:
Prof. Jiang Jiandong for his continuous support and providing laboratory, funds and other resources.
Prof. Cui Jin for financial support.
Prof. Chenxi for always being able to answer our endless questions on experiments.
Prof. Wanghui for her help and support in the lab, not just with practical advice but with her constant sense of humour and unlimited patience.
Prof. Yan Xin for providing project resources and help with protocols and analysis of results.
Prof. Liang yonghengfor providing project resources.
Yang Bo for organising workshop and assisting in mastering project schedule.
Wang xiaoyue for regularly checking on our work and giving very useful feedback.
Lu weitogether with Chen Jun for great advice on how to manage and arrange a lab for maximum efficiency and mentorship on safety within the lab.
Wang jin for providing us with equipments and laboratory.
We fortunately had a large number of advisers this year, all of them gave us valuable suggestions when we turned to them for help.
Thanks to:
Gu Dongfang ;Luo Xudong for guidance in our experimental design.
Ye Xianfengfor helping us to run a few experiments
Wang Ziyan for all the help and advice on data analysis and machine learning
We genuinely appreciate the generous individuals and companies who supported us professionally.
Thanks to:
Dr. Zhang Haoqian (Bluepha), for giving us an introductory course to iGEM and synthetic biology, and continuous general advice.
Thanks for all help from Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, SIBS, CAS; National Center for Protein Science Shanghai; University of Science and Technology of China；Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences ；School of Life Sciences and College of Plant Protection of Nanjing Agricultural University; Lanfeng Wang DVM, Ph.D. Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS; Jingyu Lang DVM, Ph.D.The Institute of Health Science, CAS.
