Difference between revisions of "Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Summary"

 
(9 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{SSTi-SZGD}}
 
{{SSTi-SZGD}}
 +
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
 
<head>
 
<meta charset="UTF-8">
 
<meta charset="UTF-8">
Line 7: Line 8:
 
<meta name="author" content="Lucky"/>
 
<meta name="author" content="Lucky"/>
 
<meta name="copyright" content="IGEM Team:SSTi-SZGD"/>
 
<meta name="copyright" content="IGEM Team:SSTi-SZGD"/>
−
<meta name="revised" content="Lucky Yang,10/10/17"/>
+
<meta name="revised" content="Lucky Yang,10/14/17"/>
 
<title>SSTi-SZGD---HP_Summary</title>
 
<title>SSTi-SZGD---HP_Summary</title>
 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/css/animation?action=raw&ctype=text/css"/>
 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/css/animation?action=raw&ctype=text/css"/>
Line 61: Line 62:
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Degradation">Degradation</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Expression">Expression</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Expression">Expression</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Degradation">Degradation</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Interlab">Interlab</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/InterLab">InterLab</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
Line 85: Line 86:
 
<span>Application</span>
 
<span>Application</span>
 
<ul class="unify">
 
<ul class="unify">
 +
<li>
 +
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Applied_Design">Business Plan</a>
 +
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
 
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Software">Software</a>
 
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Software">Software</a>
Line 100: Line 104:
 
<ul class="unify">
 
<ul class="unify">
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Summary">Summary</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Summary">Summary</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Outreach">Outreach</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Gold_Integrated">Intergrated HP</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
<li>
 
<li>
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Entrepreneurship">Entrepreneurship</a>
+
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Silver">Outreach</a>
 +
</li>
 +
<li>
 +
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/Collaborations">Collaboration</a>
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
</ul>
 
</ul>
Line 144: Line 151:
 
 
 
</div>
 
</div>
−
+
 
−
<div class="SubNav">
+
−
+
−
<div class="Summary">
+
−
<a href="#Content">Summary</a>
+
−
</div>
+
−
+
−
<div class="Intergrated">
+
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Intergrated">Intergrated</a>
+
−
</div>
+
−
+
−
<div class="Outreach">
+
−
<a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:SSTi-SZGD/HP/Outreach">Outreach</a>
+
−
</div>
+
−
+
−
</div>
+
−
+
 
</div>
 
</div>
 
 
 
 
 
 
−
<!--Content-->
 
 
<div class="Content" id="Content">
 
<div class="Content" id="Content">
−
+
<div class="Ques1">
−
<div class="content">
+
−
+
 
<div class="left">
 
<div class="left">
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/8/8f/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img.png"/>
+
<div class="Title">How our project was initiated?</div>
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/2/29/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img2.png" style=" transform: rotate(10deg);"/>
+
<p>
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/a/a5/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img3.png"/>
+
We visited a team member, Richard's hometown in a village of Western Guangdong province. By talking to his family and friends, who are farmers for generations, we discovered that chemical fertilizers were heavily used in the field. The reason behind was that the soil has been severely contaminated by overdose usage of pesticide, causing land agglomeration and deprivation of soil nutrients. The natural way for pesticide degradation in soil is through land plowing and pause farming for years. However, ordinary farmers would not want to wait, instead they continue with more chemical fertilizers and more pesticides. That’s where the vicious cycle begins.
 +
</p>
 
</div>
 
</div>
−
+
<div class="right">
−
<div class="middle">
+
<div class="Title">How did we develop the project?</div>
 
<p>
 
<p>
−
The initial idea of our iGEM project this year came from a situation that we discovered from one of the team member, Richard's hometown in a village of Western Guangdong province. We visited his hometown to investigate the current farming situation, and learned that chemical fertilizers were heavily used in the field. The reason behind was that the soil has been severely contaminated by overdose usage of pesticide, which causes land agglomeration and deprivation of soil nutrients. While usage of pesticide is important for agricultural and general inevitable, the natural way for soil recovery normally occurs through thorough land plowing and pause farming for a couple of years, as natural microorganisms do a good job degrading pesticide residues that remain in the soil. However, it takes time and patience. From what we saw in Richard’s village, farmers would not normally wait for natural recovery to happen, instead, they continue with more pesticides and then more chemical fertilizers.
+
We talked to professionals in the agricultural field about our project proposal and feasibility of our technology. In the meantime, we traveled to a number of places in Guangdong province to investigate how widespread the problem is, and how our proposed products could help. By talking to farmers, farmers, garden owners, government officials, we understood better about their needs. In addition, we visited LEVEKING Biotech, one of the leading enzyme providers in Southern China, to find out how we could commercial our proposed product. Check out what we did this whole year on Outreach and Integrated HP pages!
 
</p>
 
</p>
−
+
</div>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="clear"></div>
 +
<div class="Ques2">
 +
<div class="Title">How did people respond to our proposal?</div>
 
<p>
 
<p>
−
In the meantime, local media has reported multiple incidents related to pesticide residues on food products causing health issues, as well as other news related to heavy pollution in rivers, water streams, and underground water by heavy metals and toxic chemicals potentially results from unauthorized release of pesticides.
+
We conducted a survey on how people thought of pesticide residues and how they would respond to using genetic modification organisms for pesticide degradation purpose. We also developed an APP that helps detecting pesticide residues on food products and educating people on relevant information and regulations. Check out our Outreach and Software pages!
 
</p>
 
</p>
−
+
</div>
 +
<div class="Ques3">
 +
<div class="Title">How did we formulate our product and design?</div>
 
<p>
 
<p>
−
It made us think what we can do as synthetic biologists, then we came up of an idea of making pesticide residue degradation products using genetic engineered bacteria cells. Besides working days and nights in our wet lab to make the products, this year, we also traveled to a number of places in Guangdong province to investigate how widespread the problem is, and how our proposed products could help. This formed the basis of our integrated human practice. We went to orchards, private gardens, farms, villages to talk to locals, farmers, government officials. In addition, we needed professional guidance and advice from experts in the agriculture fields, that is when we went to agricultural institutes in ShenZhen, and talked to the experts our the feasibility of our technique and experimental procedures. We were also honored to received special guidance and help from professor from Bioreactor Department of East China University to finalize our light-controlled expression vector. Finally, in order to under the procedure related to mass production of our products, we visited LEVEKING Biotech. Cooperation, one of the largest enzyme production companies in Southern China, and talked to their R&D and production managers about how we could commercial our proposed product. The ultimate goal of our project this year is to implement the entire system including light-control, enzymes and the device into the agricultural industry and solve the problem caused by the excessive use of the chemical pesticide.  
+
We spent monthly in the laboratory to experiment on our designated light-regulated enzyme production system. Thanks to the help of our collaborated iGEM teams (check out Collaboration page), our ideas were extended and techniques were improved to provide a solid technical foundation for the commercialization of the project. We thoroughly investigated the elements that may affect the viability of our products, and spent hours and hours writing and editing a business proposal to integrate information from various parties. Key pointed we considered included product design, environmental impact, potential customers identifications, industrial production procedures, financial cost analyses, promotion strategies, etc. For more info., check out our Applied Design and Business Plan pages!
 +
</p>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="Ques4">
 +
<div class="Title">What else did we do to support?</div>
 +
<p>
 +
We engaged with our friends and stakeholders through the social media by periodically updated on what we had been up to. By doing so, we attracted more attention on our project, and hope that would transfer to a way that helps improving soil conditions in China. On the other hand, In order to realize the project, we participated in a number of entreprenuership competitions throughout the year. We got lucky to receive a RMB￥50,000 (USD$7460) start-up fund by making to the 1st on one of the competitions! We completed the registration of a Bio-tech company this seeded money lately. Check out our Outreach page for a full description!
 +
</p>
 +
</div>
 +
<div class="Ques5">
 +
<div class="Title">Anything more?</div>
 +
<p>
 +
This is the first time ever for our school to participate in iGEM competition. We spent almost the entire year preparing for the competition, it has been a mix of sweet and sour experience, challenging yet excited!! We hope that more of our fellow students would join this competition in the future so we actively promoted iGEM and synthetic biology in various occasions at our school. The response was fascinating! Hope we will receive more thrilling ideas and also, hope new blood would help moving our project further. Check out Outreach page.
 
</p>
 
</p>
−
</div>
 
−
 
−
<div class="right">
 
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/d/d5/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img4.png"/>
 
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/4/43/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img5.png" style=" transform: rotate(-10deg);"/>
 
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/4/4a/SSTi-SZGD_HP_Summary_img6.png"/>
 
−
</div>
 
−
 
 
</div>
 
</div>
 
 
Line 203: Line 202:
 
 
 
<!--footer-->
 
<!--footer-->
−
<div class="footer_box">
+
<footer class="footer_box">
 
 
 
<div class="footer">
 
<div class="footer">
Line 209: Line 208:
 
<!--sponsor-->
 
<!--sponsor-->
 
<div class="sponsor">
 
<div class="sponsor">
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/9/9d/SSTi-SZGD_logo.png"/>
+
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/9/9d/SSTi-SZGD_logo.png" alt="SSTi-SZGD"/>
−
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/e/e0/SSTi-SZGD_logo_SSTI.png"/>
+
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/e/e0/SSTi-SZGD_logo_SSTI.png" alt="SSTI"/>
 +
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/8/8c/SSTi-SZGD_logo_USZ.png" alt="USZ"/>
 +
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/d/d2/SSTi-SZGD_logo_SSTIABD.png" alt="SSTIABD"/>
 +
<img src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/9/95/SSTi-SZGD_logo_PRS.png" alt="PRS"/>
 
</div>
 
</div>
 
 
Line 216: Line 218:
 
<div class="copyright">
 
<div class="copyright">
 
<p>
 
<p>
−
<span class="left">A&nbsp;product&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;degradation&nbsp;of&nbsp;soil&nbsp;pesticide&nbsp;residues</span>
+
<span class="left">
−
<span class="right">Copyright&nbsp;&copy;&nbsp;2017&nbsp;Lucky&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;power&nbsp;by&nbsp;&nbsp;IGEM&nbsp;Team&#58;SSTi-SZGD</span>
+
A product&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;degradation&nbsp;of&nbsp;soil&nbsp;pesticide&nbsp;residues
 +
</span>
 +
<span class="right">
 +
Copyright&nbsp;&copy;&nbsp;2017&nbsp;Lucky&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;power&nbsp;by&nbsp;&nbsp;iGEM&nbsp;Team&#58;SSTi-SZGD
 +
</span>
 
</p>
 
</p>
 
</div>
 
</div>
 
 
 
</div>
 
</div>
−
+
 
−
+
</footer>
−
</div>
+
 
 
 
 

Latest revision as of 08:02, 28 October 2017

SSTi-SZGD---HP_Summary

How our project was initiated?

We visited a team member, Richard's hometown in a village of Western Guangdong province. By talking to his family and friends, who are farmers for generations, we discovered that chemical fertilizers were heavily used in the field. The reason behind was that the soil has been severely contaminated by overdose usage of pesticide, causing land agglomeration and deprivation of soil nutrients. The natural way for pesticide degradation in soil is through land plowing and pause farming for years. However, ordinary farmers would not want to wait, instead they continue with more chemical fertilizers and more pesticides. That’s where the vicious cycle begins.

How did we develop the project?

We talked to professionals in the agricultural field about our project proposal and feasibility of our technology. In the meantime, we traveled to a number of places in Guangdong province to investigate how widespread the problem is, and how our proposed products could help. By talking to farmers, farmers, garden owners, government officials, we understood better about their needs. In addition, we visited LEVEKING Biotech, one of the leading enzyme providers in Southern China, to find out how we could commercial our proposed product. Check out what we did this whole year on Outreach and Integrated HP pages!

How did people respond to our proposal?

We conducted a survey on how people thought of pesticide residues and how they would respond to using genetic modification organisms for pesticide degradation purpose. We also developed an APP that helps detecting pesticide residues on food products and educating people on relevant information and regulations. Check out our Outreach and Software pages!

How did we formulate our product and design?

We spent monthly in the laboratory to experiment on our designated light-regulated enzyme production system. Thanks to the help of our collaborated iGEM teams (check out Collaboration page), our ideas were extended and techniques were improved to provide a solid technical foundation for the commercialization of the project. We thoroughly investigated the elements that may affect the viability of our products, and spent hours and hours writing and editing a business proposal to integrate information from various parties. Key pointed we considered included product design, environmental impact, potential customers identifications, industrial production procedures, financial cost analyses, promotion strategies, etc. For more info., check out our Applied Design and Business Plan pages!

What else did we do to support?

We engaged with our friends and stakeholders through the social media by periodically updated on what we had been up to. By doing so, we attracted more attention on our project, and hope that would transfer to a way that helps improving soil conditions in China. On the other hand, In order to realize the project, we participated in a number of entreprenuership competitions throughout the year. We got lucky to receive a RMB￥50,000 (USD$7460) start-up fund by making to the 1st on one of the competitions! We completed the registration of a Bio-tech company this seeded money lately. Check out our Outreach page for a full description!

Anything more?

This is the first time ever for our school to participate in iGEM competition. We spent almost the entire year preparing for the competition, it has been a mix of sweet and sour experience, challenging yet excited!! We hope that more of our fellow students would join this competition in the future so we actively promoted iGEM and synthetic biology in various occasions at our school. The response was fascinating! Hope we will receive more thrilling ideas and also, hope new blood would help moving our project further. Check out Outreach page.

A product for the degradation of soil pesticide residues Copyright © 2017 Lucky      power by  iGEM Team:SSTi-SZGD