Gold Medal and Integrated Human Practices

Gold Medal Criterion #1

• We went to Hangzhou Zhongmei Huadong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. introducing our project to their director of Macromolecular Laboratory and asking for the possibility that if our blue-light-controlled self-lysis system could fit their production in the middle of our experiments. But our system was consisted of two plasmids (one for light-controlled part and one for FixK2 promoter and lysin) at that time. Therefore the director told us only if we could solve the problem of multi-plasmids pressure in cells then could our project be used in fermentation industry. We had spent a long time connecting the light-controlled system and the functional gene so that they can be put in the same one plasmid. In some ways we solved the problem of multi-plasmids pressure by reducing one plasmid in the system. And we may work on making one kind of plasmid vector with our blue-light-controlled self-lysis system which can be directly used by fermentation factories for genetically engineered producing strains in the future.

• Others

  To make our human practice work more efficient! We held different activities involving safety, public education and social activities in different modus according to the group in different age.

  1. Questionnaire

  As our project is related to intracellular product, we did a survey among the public to know their attitude to synthetic technology as well as how much they know about iGEM. Here goes the result. The main content

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