We have done a full human practice this year！It can be summed up as three perspectives, inspired by society, contacts with society and feedback to society as well as a communication and cooperation section.

Inspired by society

Through the work of human practice, we did plenty of research about Enteromorpha's current condition, application, and related study. The results can feedback to our lab and modify our project designs.

First, we conducted a full investigation and analyzed the practical significance, feasibility, and development potential of our projects. We worked on two parts: the social and environmental issues involved in the project (Detailed Link), and the feasibility of the implementation while doing research in order for analyzing the possibility of improvement. (Detailed Link)

Contacts by society

We link our projects to real production！

To combine our projects with real energy production, we visited Qingdao Winsea Group (currently one of the biggest companies in the country to carry out Enteromorpha Salvage and roughing) and established a partnership with them. At the same time, their research and development staff help assess the prospect of our project and spoke highly of its value. (Detailed Link)

In addition, to spread our ideas and promote the influence of synthetic biology, we carried out a thorough research and started our science popularization work! (Detailed Link)

Feedback by society

To give more feedback to society, we proceeded a creative education work!

Believing that algae outbreaks caused by water pollution do not exist only in our locality, we investigated such environmental problems worldwide by distributing questionnaires in iGEM communities, consulting iGEM teams around the world, searching for relevant research institutes, and making hot maps of it. We hope that there will be more people understanding this kind of environmental problems, aware of its possible applications, thus enhance the protection degree. We also sent the information to Qingdao Winsea Group and related research institutes to assist there work. (Detailed Link)

What's more, education! Since we have had a more innovative conception of synthetic biology and scientific thinking, we spent half a year designing and creating a comic book of synthetic biology, which talks about the biological model of synthetic biology in the way of a series of vivid cartoon stories. We want to make more people understand synthetic biology and love synthetic biology!

Also, we cooperated with many other universities and organized summer camps for primary and secondary school students to spread our thoughts. We introduced our work to young people through social softwares like Weixin, and even helped iGEM organizing committee apply for social accounts in China Sina Weibo, which is a widely used social media in China. We sincerely hope that more people in our country can get to know about iGEM and synthetic biology! (Detailed Link)

Communication and cooperation

In July this year,our team participated in the third Symposium on the Young Scholars of synthetic biology, organized by Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and ecology of CAs, was held in Shanghai.

In August this year, our team went to China Fujian province to participate in the China regional iGEM Exchange Meeting (CCiC), a total of nearly 50 Chinese teams participated.We communicate with multiple teams and display posters. At the same time, we understand the forefront of the field of synthetic biology. In the final project display and poster selection, we won the Best poster award!

We are presenting our project to the synthetic biologists. We showed the poster for our project. In the exchange process, we harvested a lot of useful advice, let us constantly improve the project.